DAILY RENDEZVOUS

Daily Rendezvous  Since September last year, Indian medical staff have performed critical emergency surgeries that have saved the lives of five children There was something distinctly different about this year and medal award ceremony for the Indian peacekeepers in Upper Nile.  For the first time, the parade of the large contingent, consisting of infantry, engineers and medical staff, was led by a woman, Major Jasmine Chatthà It has been an honour to represent my regiment on this special day.  By positioning women as leaders, we are sending  a strong message to the citizens of South Sudan in general and its women in particular. In our work, for example when we repair roads or try to mitigate floods, we are in contact with the local population and they can see that we, women, are leading a team and we are both respected and listened to, she says. While it is true that India’s peacekeeping contingent in Upper Nile is almost all male, Major Chattha...

Daily Rendezvous -   Ahmadiyya   Muslim Jama’at, Says the Country is Proud of his Blend of Leadership - He welcomed a cross-section of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission leadership at the presidency   His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada Bio has received the newly appointed Sierra Leonean Amir of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat in Sierra Leone, Amir Musa Mewa Esq., emphasising that the country is proud of his blend of leadership. The President said, as a country, we are very proud of you. Your blend of leadership in our community is remarkable". He welcomed a cross-section of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission leadership at the presidency, stressing that Sierra Leoneans, including himself, were no strangers to the work of the Ahmadiyya Mission in the country. Some of us grew up with friends and colleagues who attended Ahmadiyya schools. I want to formally congratulate you for the indelible mark your mission has had on the development of the country's human c...

Daily Rendezvous  - WHO Delivers Much Needed Laboratory Supplies, such as testing kits and re-agents, and supported Building the Capacity of Several National Laboratories to Enhance Early Detection The spread of the mpox (monkeypox) outbreak has been limited in the Eastern Mediterranean Region with 10 countries reporting 80 laboratory-confirmed cases and one associated death, mostly correlated with a travel history to areas where the outbreak is steadily circulating. From the very inception of the mpox outbreak in the Region, the World Health Organization (WHO) has responded to effectively enhance country preparedness and response to the newly emerging outbreak. With the declaration of the first case in the Region in May 2022, WHO established a regional technical working group as part of the Multi-Disease Outbreak Incident Management Support Team to coordinate the regional and country response to the mpox outbreak. The working group, comprising WHO technical ex...

Daily Rendezvous  BARNABAS MANYAM YOLA. following a successful All Progressive Congress Party APC convention in Adamawa State attended by nearly a million APC enthusiasts APC supporters,, the former Governor of Adamawa State Barrister James Bala Nggilari, has called for massive votes for Jagaban of Nigeria and APC Presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu is the February general elections.  Speaking in Yola with selected newsmen the former Governor who was a deputy Governor to former Governor Admiral Murtala Nyako for 7 years before becoming the substantive Governor through a court victory said Nigerians will be great again if Tinubu is elected as the President because he is a team player and an economic guru who will transformed Nigeria. Former Governor Bala James Niggilari also pointed out that the Nigerians needs Tinubu more than what Tinubu needs Nigeria therefore it would be an injustice to miss him as the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria....

Daily Rendezvous Culled from VENTURES  By Oluwatosin Ogunjuyigbe - New Naira Notes off to a Sloppy Start - it's a Economic Policy Misadventures  When you log on to the homepage of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), a timer stares back at you, counting down to January 31st, when the current series of N200, N500, and N1000 notes will become invalid in Nigeria. But as we inch closer to that deadline, there’s growing uncertainty around its realism. Let’s start from the beginning. In late October, when Nigeria announced that it would redesign these notes, it sparked a frenzy of mixed reactions, most of which were not optimistic. But the central bank cited several reasons for making this move. Primarily, it believed there were unhealthily large volumes of cash stashed outside banks, most of which were illegally acquired. According to Godwin Emefiele, the CBN governor, the apex bank had lost track of N2.7 trillion of the N3.2 trillion notes in circulation. So it planned t...

Daily Rendezvous  The Adamawa State Ag. Chairman HON. SAMAILA TADAWUS on behalf of the Party Leadership, Candidates, Stakeholders, teeming members/supporters of our great Party, THE ALL PROGRESSIVES CONGRESS, APC, sincerely appreciates and thank His Excellency PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI GCFR and his entourage for finding time in the midst of his very tight schedule to personally attend the Adamawa State TINUBU/KASHIM Presidential Campaign Rally and the official Gubernatorial campaign FLAG-OFF of SEN. AISHATU DAHIRU AHMED (BINANI)/TITSI GANAMA held at the New MUHAMMADU BUHARI SQUARE in Yola on Monday 9th January 2023. BABA BUHARI sir, you have done us a great and rare favour by raising the hand of SEN. BINANI and presenting her to the electorates as a worthy, capable and trusted leader, to be elected as Governor of Adamawa State. We say a very big thank you sir. Our appreciation and thanks also goes to our Presidential candidate SEN. BOLA AHMED TINUBU (JAGABAN) and his r...

  Daily Rendezvous Update on COVID-19 Genomic Surveillance in view of the Rising Cases of COVID-19 in Hotspot Countries. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) is the national public health institute with  the mandate to lead the preparedness, detection, and response to public health emergencies. Consequently,  we continue to monitor global COVID-19 epidemiology including genomics data as part of the ongoing pandemic response. The NCDC-led COVID-19 Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) is monitoring COVID-19 trends in  China, the United States of America (USA), the United Kingdom (UK), South Africa, India, and other  countries with a high volume of traffic to and from Nigeria. This includes the resurgence of COVID-19 in China following the relaxation of the country’s zero-COVID policy, as well as significantly increased  COVID-19 cases, admissions, and deaths in the UK and the USA over the past weeks driven in part by the ...