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6.5 million doses of COVID vaccine have been administered in PA. EVERY ADULT is now eligible for vaccination. Learn more. 6.5 million doses of COVID vaccine have been administered in PA. EVERY ADULT is eligible for vaccination starting April 13. Learn more. × Gov. Wolf and COVID-19 Vaccine Task Force Announce that All Adults in Pennsylvania are Eligible Tomorrow to Schedule COVID-19 Vaccination Appointments April 12, 2021 Governor Tom Wolf and the COVID-19 Vaccine Task Force an...

STATEMENT BY PREMIER AND MINISTER OF FINANCE HONOURABLE ANDREW A. FAHIE Good day and God’s Blessings to you my people of the Virgin Islands. Together, through and with the Grace of God, we continue to move forward with a clear plan of action that involves balancing lives and livelihoods in this era shaped by the COVID-19 global pandemic. I must say that for the most part, we all have been doing remarkably well, navigating and implementing the different phases of the Virgin Islands COVID-19 re...

5 LAS VEGAS – Soldiers with Joint Task Force 17 strike team, along with multiple partners, helped launch the Mobile Vaccination Units (MVU) at the Las Vegas Paiute Indian Tribe to support equitable distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesday, Apr. 6. “This is a great way to reach out to our neighbors in rural communities who need the vaccine,” MVU Supervisor Susan Vilardi said. “We are prepared to handle a minimum of 250 vaccines per day at each location, but as dem...

BusinessWorld April 13, 2021 | 10:24 pm LRT-1 operations to be suspended for 2 weekends LIGHT Rail Manila Corp. (LRMC), the private operator of Light Rail Transit Line 1 (LRT-1), announced on Tuesday that it would suspend train operations for two weekends in April to continue its maintenance works. “The shutdown on April 17–18 and April 24–25, 2021 will allow LRMC to complete the remaining maintenance and rehabilitation works started during the Holy Week,” the company sa...

BENICIA — U.S. Army Spc. Kalaya Lee is a traditional California National Guard member, where she is a food services specialist with the 749th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion in Benicia. She’s on full time orders in support of the California Military Department’s Covid-19 response working at Joi

National Guard troops keep NJ vaccine megasites humming Army and Air National Guard troops help run the Garden State’s six vaccination megasites. Col. Rob Hughes, the Joint Task Force commander for the vaccination mission who recently served as commander of Regional Command East in Kosovo, said many members of the Guard had been deployed in places like Jordan, Qatar, Bahrain and the Horn of Africa “And then the pandemic started and we asked them to assist in supporting these megasites,” h...

Nigerian Army PHOTO: Twitter In international relations, a nation’s foreign policy is usually the aggregate of its national interests, especially in the strategic socio-political, economic and security/military domains, often considered an extension of its domestic policy architecture. Nigeria, given its size and endowment with human and natural resources, has always held the potential for greatness and continental leadership. It is no secret that since independence from Britain in 1960, succ...

Women in the community protested the attack, calling for the arrest of gang members. by SaharaReporters, New York Apr 08, 2021 Gunmen suspected to be terrorising waterways in the Ese-Odo local government area of Ondo State, have allegedly razed 14 houses in a midnight attack on the Asere riverine community. According to a report by Nation newspaper, the gunmen attacked the community for tipping off security agencies about their activities and movement. Women in the community protested the atta...

Insecurity has long been a problem in the country’s oil rich Niger Delta region too. From the early 2000s, armed militants targeted oil industry infrastructure and kidnapped expatriates. This continued until the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua introduced an amnesty programme for militants in 2009. Hostilities decreased but the programme focused mainly on securing the oil industry. It did not address the overarching insecurity affecting ordinary people. Thirty-one million Nigerians live ...

Kidnappers demand N10m ransom for abducted Chinese nationals On By Shina Abubakar Osogbo Abductors of Chinese expatriates kidnapped at a gold mining site located at Okepa/Itikan village, Ifewara, Atakumosa West Local Government Area on Monday demanded the sum of N10 million ransom. Vanguard had reported that Messrs Zhao Jian, 33, and Wen, 50, were kidnapped by gunmen, who invaded the mining site around 4 pm after shooting two of the private guards at the site. Police spokesperson in Osun State...