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The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has approved the use of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine in Nigeria.   NAFDAC's Director-General, Mojisola Adeyeye made the announcement during a media briefing in Abuja on Friday April 30.    Adeyeye said the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine will be used in emergency cases only. She added that the approval given was not a full one but would be in effect within the period of getting people vaccinated and gathering data about the adverse effects following immunization.   The NAFDAC DG said;   “The purpose of the press briefing is to announce that NAFDAC has just approved Pfizer-BionTech vaccines for possible use in Nigeria. “They were reviewed carefully by the NAFDAC staff COVID-19 vaccine committee to make sure that the science behind the development is well understood and in accord with our world regulatory activities. “We used different mechanisms to approve the vaccine. We use...

  Regent of the Zulu nation and wife of South Africa’s recently deceased Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini, Her Majesty Queen Shiyiwe Mantfombi Dlamini Zulu has reportedly passed on.  Mangosuthu Buthelezi, traditional prime minister to the Zulu monarch who did not mention the cause of her death said she died "unexpectedly" on Thursday April 29.  The statement read;    “It is with the deepest shock and distress that the Royal Family announces the unexpected passing of Her Majesty Queen Shiyiwe Mantfombi Dlamini Zulu, Regent of the Zulu Nation.  “This has taken us by surprise and left us utterly bereft,” he added without mentioning the cause of death."   The sudden death of Dlamini-Zulu, 65, comes days after she was reportedly hospitalised just weeks after her husband's burial. Zwelithini passed away on March 12, aged 72 after half a century on the throne, following a battle with diabetes-related illness. Although the title of Zulu...

An Indian woman has died after the police allegedly took her oxygen cylinder away from her hospital bed to give to a VIP amid a shortage of medical oxygen in the country.    Video shared on social media shows a man crying and begging in front of the Uttar Pradesh police not to take away his mother’s oxygen cylinder.   'My mother will die if you take away her oxygen cylinder,' Anmol Goyal, 22, told the police as the cylinder was carried out of the hospital on Tuesday night, April 27.   He and his 17-year-old brother were said to have sourced the oxygen themselves, bringing it to the Covid ward and placing it by their mother's bed.   Their mother, who was admitted to a private hospital in Agra in Uttar Pradesh for Covid-19 complications, died two hours after the police allegedly took away the oxygen.   The cylinder was confiscated by the police for someone deemed to be more important, according to The Times of India correspondent who shared...

Notorious bandit leader and mastermind of the abduction of the Kankara schoolboys,  Auwalun   Daudawa, has been killed.    Daudawa who in February repented from banditry and laid down his arms, went back to the crime in April.   Confirming his killing to Channels Television, the state Commissioner for Security and Home Affairs in Zamfara state, Abubakar Dauran, said Daudawa left Gusau day two days ago. He had reportedly told some people that he was going to attend one of his relatives’ wedding. However, he rustled over 100 cows and killed the herdsman in charge. Dauran said in retaliation, some people around the area organized and killed him too.