30 Dec ALL THE RELEVANT NEWS :Wednesday
🌍 The UK approves the vaccine developed by the University of Oxford and manufactured by AstraZeneca; considered a game-changer as it is the cheapest so far and does not have to be stored at very low temperatures. The news comes the day after the UK announced another record daily figure of 53,135 cases.
🌍 President Buhari moves to reduce food inflation next year, directs CBN not to provide any money for food importation.
* There are indications that he will sign the 2021 Appropriation Bill into law on Thursday.
🌍 Oil Monitor: Oil gained more ground on Wednesday as a U.S. coronavirus fiscal aid package and a decline in crude oil inventories lifted prices. Brent crude futures rose 35 cents, or 0.7%, to $51.44 a barrel by 0803 GMT
🌍 COVID-19 Update: Appalled by the poor compliance with safety protocols around the country, even with last week’s record cases as the worst week ever, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has warned that January 2021 will be tough with an increase in new cases.
*On Tuesday, Nigeria reported 749 new cases and 3 deaths from a total daily test of 5,385 samples across the country. There are now 85,560 confirmed cases, 71,937 recoveries and 1,267 deaths
* FG has suspended the passports of 100 in-bound airline passengers who failed to take the second test of COVID-19 after arriving in the country.
* The Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 will focus on vaccine procurement in the first quarter of 2021.
* 476 Abuja health workers so far infected
* RCCG cancels crossover service nationwide, as the Christian Association of Nigeria urges churches to close at 11pm
Colorado identifies first known case of UK coronavirus variant in US
🌍 The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) has been ranked by Bloomberg as the best-performing stock market among the 93 equity indexes ranked by Bloomberg across the world.
🌍 The International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol) says it has traced a €500,000 COVID-19 fraud to Nigeria; says the scheme was coordinated using compromised emails, advance-payment fraud, and money laundering.
🌍 The nine months 2020 financial results of 13 commercial banks show that they raked in a total of N36.759 trillion as customers’ deposits.
🌍 NIMC resorts to booking system in fresh guidelines for NIN applicants; there are still undesirable crowds at the registration centres.
🌍 A member of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC), and renowned criminologist, Prof Femi Odekunle, is dead.
🌍 French designer Pierre Cardin, whose futuristic designs helped revolutionise fashion in the 1950s and 60s, has died at the age of 98. His career spanned more than 70 years, helped usher in the post-war “golden age” of couture with his modern style.
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