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States on Tuesday started receiving their consignments of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine with Lagos collecting 507,000 doses, Nasarawa, 61,000; Ekiti, 52,960 and Ondo, 75,570.
Officials of the states disclosed these figures to The PUNNCH in separate interviews just as one of our correspondents gathered that between 150,000 and 160,000 doses would be given to Katsina State.
Recall that the Federal Government on Tuesday last week received 3.94 million doses of the vaccine from COVAX facility, an initiative co-led by the Vaccine Alliance, GAVI and the World Health Organisation.
On Monday, 50,000 doses of the vaccine were given to Ogun State by the Federal Government.
The Ministry of Interior’s Gender Working Group expressed deep regret that Siem Pang district police chief in Stung Treng province had warned a lieutenant colonel about breastfeeding while on duty.
Sithong Sokha, the district deputy police chief in charge of public order, posted a picture of herself breastfeeding on March 2, saying: “Because I am a mother, regardless of the circumstances I must forget about shyness and do everything for my children. This is real life.”
Then on March 6, she posted another message on Facebook apologising for posting a picture of herself breastfeeding while on duty.
On March 9, Sokha was summonsed to Siem Pang district police headquarters to sign a letter promising to stop the practice.
Women s Economic Empowerment National Priority : MoF
Ministry of Finance officials at a conference aimed at women s economic empowerment held on Wednesday said that women’s economic empowerment is one of the national priorities and that some programs and projects have been included in the country’s national budget.
“We have 2.8 billion Afs (over $36 million) available for women empowerment projects in our budget from Optional Funds and International Aid. Apart from this, another 300 million Afs has also been allocated for the recruitment of female teachers,” said Nazir Kabiri, deputy minister for policy at the Ministry of Finance.
The funds that are provided by non-governmental organizations and are outside of the national budget need to be aligned with national priorities, officials in the Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Economy said.
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