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The Minister of Health , Prof . Isaac Adewole , on Wednesday said the Federal Government has released $ 1 m for the delivery of contraceptives for the enhancement of quality family planning among Nigerians . Adewole said this while briefing State House Correspondents at the end of a meeting of the Federal Executive Council presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa , Abuja . According to him , procurement for the implementation of the plan had been secured . He said following a presidential approval of the joint venture agreement between the Federal Government and May $ Baker for the production of local vaccines , a board had been constituted on January 19 to oversee the venture . Consequently , he said Nigeria would begin to produce its vaccines within the next two years . Adewole added that the government was fine - tuning arrangements for the enrolment of 320, 000 members of the National Youths Service Corps for the National Health Insurance Sch...

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike Chukwudi Akasike , Port Harcourt The Rivers State Governor , Nyesom Wike , has declared that Nigeria is in a coma , saying only the Peoples Democratic Party can revive the country . Also , a former Jigawa State governor, Alhaji Sule Lamido , said that he had the capacity to revive the fortunes of the country . Wike and Lamido spoke at the Government House in Port Harcourt on Wednesday when the former governor visited Wike to notify him of his (Lamido ) intention to vie for the position of the President in 2019 . Wike described the All Progressives Congress as a party of strangers with no knowledge of the intricacies of development . He said the APC thrived in politics of mischief and engaging in high - level intimidation , corruption and dirty political schemes to compel defection of the PDP members to its fold. The governor stated, “If you defect to the APC , you are no longer corrupt. The APC is a party of daylight deceit. “ I am happ...

The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Anchor Borrowers’ Programme initiated on November 17, 2015 to boost the production of key agricultural commodities set off a major stampede in small-holder involvement in rice production in many states of the Federation. After its second year, the CBN disclosed that about 300, 000 rice farmers from 20 states had embraced the programme which helped to refocus attention to the fact that Nigeria has the capacity to become a major rice producer and exporter in the world. An innovative experiment which was widely applauded was the memorandum of understanding signed by the Kebbi and Lagos State Governments in which Kebbi would produce rice for sale in the mammoth Lagos market. It was branded LAKE Rice. The success of this experiment made many states to embrace the production of rice branded in the names of their respective states. However, it soon became obvious that some state governors had brought politics and a bit of fraudulent practices into it w...

DISTURBED by the terrible state of Nigeria’s health care system due to government neglect and the huge drain on foreign exchange caused by the unchanging appetite of Nigerians for medical treatment overseas, the House of Representatives is considering a law to discourage international medical trip by public office holders. It is a “Bill for an Act to Regulate International Trip for Medical Treatment by Public Officers to Strengthen the Health Institutions for Efficient Service Delivery and for Related Matters.” The bill, which was consolidated with a similar proposal, yesterday, is being sponsored by Sergius Oseasichie Ogun (PDP, Edo), with its core legislative concerns as the prohibition of overseas medical trips by public officers without approval; regulate overseas medical trips by public officers and strengthen the health institutions for efficient service delivery and internal revenue generation. Made up of 13 clauses, the sponsor said the bill was necessitated by the abuse...

Head of Investigation, Department of State Security, DSS, Lagos Command and a witness in the ongoing trial before a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, of four men, who allegedly smuggled 661 sophisticated pump action rifles into Nigeria last January, Mr. Wale Odu, yesterday, told a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, that the suspect made statements without any coercion, threat or inducement. Odu stated this during trial-within-trial conducted on him by the prosecution and the lawyers to the accused persons named in the alleged crime. The Nigeria Customs Service had on June 14, 2017, arraigned two Customs Officers, Muhmud Hassan and Salisu Danjuma, alongside Oscar Orkafor, Donatus Achinulo and Matthew Okoye, before Justice Ayotunde Faji on charge of illegal importation of firearms, conspiracy, forgery and altering of documents, offering of graft to government officials and importation of prohibited goods. At the resumed hearing, yesterday, Odu while being led in evidence by t...

People who get the flu may face a six - fold higher risk of heart attack in the week following infection , said a study Wednesday that bolsters the need for widespread vaccinations against the flu . The risk of heart attack — or myocardial infarction — is particularly acute in older adults , said the report in the New England of Medicine . “ Our findings are important because an association between influenza and acute myocardial infarction reinforces the importance of vaccination , ” said lead author Jeff Kwong , a scientist at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences and Public Health Ontario. The study was based on nearly 20 , 000 adult cases of laboratory- confirmed influenza infection in Ontario, Canada from 2009 to 2014 . Of those, 332 patients were hospitalized for a heart attack within one year of their flu infection . The risk appeared highest in the first week , particularly for older people , those with influenza B infections , and patients experiencing their...

Disgraced former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar was sentenced to 40 to 175 years in prison on Wednesday for sexually abusing scores of young girls under the guise of medical treatment. “I’ve just signed your death warrant,” Judge Rosemarie Aquilina said as she handed down the sentence after a week of gut-wrenching testimony by over 150 of Nassar’s victims. “You do not deserve to walk outside of a prison ever again,” the judge told the 54-year-old Nassar in a tense Lansing, Michigan, courtroom. “Anywhere you walk destruction will occur to those most vulnerable.” Minutes ahead of the sentencing, Nassar apologized in court to his victims, who included Olympic gold-medal winners Simone Biles, Aly Raisman, Gabby Douglas and McKayla Maroney but also scores of female athletes at Michigan State University, where he worked. “What I am feeling pales in comparison to the pain, trauma, and emotional destruction that all of you are feeling,” Nassar said, turning at several points to fa...

Alex Iwobi is being tipped to replace new Manchester United signing Alexis Sanchez in Arsenal’s starting eleven for the time being, until Arsene Wenger signs a capable replacement. The Nigeria international is better than the Chile international in four key performance statistics : passing accuracy, shooting accuracy, average duels won and average defensive actions. Iwobi might be underrated right now due to his inconsistent performances this term but the winger has a shot accuracy of 70 percent whereas Sanchez has 57 percent. The Super Eagle has completed an impressive 86 percent of his passes, compared to the Chilean who has a passing accuracy of 73 percent. With an average defensive action of one, Iwobi is better than Sanchez who has zero. The Nigeria wonderkid has won 52 percent of his duels, while the Chilean has won 49 percent.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission today detained former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, David Babachair, over his alleged involvement in a contract scam of about N200 million. A top source in the agency confirmed last night that Babachir, who was removed from office in connection with the alleged contract scam last year, was invited to the EFCC headquarters in Abuja and was detained. “He is being interrogated by a special team raised by the EFCC to probe the matter and he was detained after arriving here at about 11 am this morning,”a source said. The source said the ex-SGF’s interrogation would continue on Thursday after which a decision would be taken in either to grant him administrative bail or not. It will be recalled that Babachir was first suspended last April when the Senate Committee headed by Senator Shehu Sani exposed how he used a firm owned by him to award N200 million contract to himself. Although he claimed to have resigned from the f...

A powerful quake has left one person dead , about 1 , 100 houses , buildings and public facilities destroyed in Indonesia , an official said on Wednesday . The official at the National Disaster Management Agency disclosed that the casualties and the damage took place in Banten province , Jakarta and West Java province. “ Lebak district of Banten province suffered the most , while assessment of the impact of the quake persists . “ The natural disaster also triggered evacuation , but the number of evacuees is still being assessed , ’’ the agency stated . According to the meteorology and geophysics agency of Indonesia , a 6 . 1 -magnitude quake struck off Indonesia ’ s capital at 13 : 34 p . m. (0634 GMT ) on Tuesday , with the epicentre at 81 km southwest of Lebak and a depth at 10 km under seabed.

Argentine international defender Javier Mascherano was unveiled as the Chinese Super League’s most high-profile signing in a year deal on Wednesday 24 January 2018 as he joined Hebei China Fortune from Barcelona. The 33-year-old is the biggest name to head to China since his fellow Argentine Carlos Tevez 12 months ago. After a series of record transfers, Chinese authorities moved to crack down on sky-rocketing deals last year. He will wear the number 14 shirt and team up with another Argentina international, Ezequiel Lavezzi, at Hebei, who are based in the northern city of Qinhuangdao and are coached by former Manchester City coach Manuel Pellegrini. “After reaching agreement with Barcelona FC and the player himself, the distinguished Argentine captain Mascherano has, starting today, officially joined Hebei China Fortune Football Club,” the Chinese side said, without disclosing the transfer fee. Spanish giants Barcelona had announced on Tuesday that Mascherano, who can also pl...

Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State has said he will not give any land in Imo State to the Federal Government for a cattle colony . Okorocha also dismissed the speculation that he had adopted the proposed colonies and ceded a part of the state to herders as wicked , unfounded and untrue. The governor who spoke on Tuesday in Owerri , the state capital, through the state Commissioner for Information, Prof. Nnamdi Obiaraeri, said there was no law , policy , decision , plan , request or intention to cede , allocate or designate any part of Imo State as a cattle colony . The governor said , “This information that Imo has ceded a part for the proposed cattle colony is wicked , unfounded and untrue , although it represents the typical product of warped thinking of desperate mischief makers via the social media . “ Imo people and members of the public are therefore advised to disregard these baseless and laughable rumours . “ It is unfortunate that manufacturing wicked and caprici...

Pope Francis on Wednesday condemned the “evil” of fake news, saying journalists and social media users should shun and unmask manipulative “snake tactics” that foment division to serve political and economic interests. “Fake news is a sign of intolerant and hypersensitive attitudes, and leads only to the spread of arrogance and hatred. That is the end result of untruth,” Francis said in the first document by a pope on the subject. It was issued after months of debate on how much fake news may have influenced the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign and the election of President Donald Trump. The document, called “The truth will set you free – Fake news and journalism for peace”, was issued in advance of the Catholic Church’s World Day of Social Communications on May 13. “Spreading fake news can serve to advance specific goals, influence political decisions, and serve economic interests,” the pope writes, condemning the “manipulative use of social networks” and other forms of commun...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested the younger sister to Mrs. Patience Jonathan , the wife of the immediate past President , Goodluck Jonathan , over suspicious payments of N3 bn made into her many accounts The accounts , with a combined balance of N3 bn , are in Skye Bank, Stanbic IBTC , Diamond Bank and Ecobank . It was learnt that the suspect , Esther Oba , was arrested at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, on Monday shortly after returning from Dubai with her husband and three children . Mrs. Oba first came under the EFCC radar in 2016 when the commission was investigating Mrs. Jonathan . The commission had discovered that an account with Oba ’ s Bank Verification Number bearing Mrs . Jonathan signature had a balance of $ 429 , 381. 87 and subsequently froze it . Subsequent investigations by the anti - graft agency showed that Mrs. Oba was the sole signatory to an account known as the AM -PM Global Network at Stanbic IBTC 0016971559 at...

The massacre in Benue was not the first or second time that herdsmen would carry out such dastardly act in Nigeria, but there are areas that they could go once and not have a repeat performance. One of such areas is Enugu State. In 2016 when the herdsmen struck at Nimbo in Uzo-Uwani local government, Enugu State, killing more than 50 people, Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi was branded a weeping governor because of the emotion he displayed at the scene of the attacks. Little did the world know that behind his grief laid a grand design of taming further occurrence of the menace. While some people saw Ugwuanyi as a weak governor who rather than be confrontational was meek, Ugwuanyi went to work to articulate a non-combative approach which eliminated further herdsmen attacks on the coal city state. Ugwuanyi discovered that the vulnerability of the state to insecurity was as a result of its location as a gateway between the north and the rest of EasternNigeria. He discovered that as trade ...

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who shared the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize as a champion of women ’ s rights , is stepping down after making history as Africa’ s first elected female president in Liberia . Taking the reins of a nation that had just emerged from a civil war leaving an estimated 250, 000 dead , Sirleaf will be remembered for maintaining peace and attracting massive donor funding as she rebuilt her country from scratch over 12 years in power . “ We were a nation exhausted from three decades of conflict . We were starting from zero , with the complete destruction of our national infrastructure, a collapsed economy , and a state incapable of providing services to its people , ” she recalled of her 2006 inauguration in a final speech to the nation on Wednesday . She will on Monday hand power to former international footballer George Weah , representing the West African country ’ s first democratic transfer of power since 1944 , and will leave behind a mixed record of peace and free...

Though Empress Njamah is still single , she says she is not short of admirers , whether young or old . According to the actress , she usually feels awkward whenever a younger man shows interest in her so she tries to avoid that . She told Sunday Scoop , “A lot of men in their twenties say they admire me and want to date me . I am sure most of them think I am really young . Sometimes , I find it annoying because if they know my actual age , they wouldn ’ t come close or show interest in me . “ When people say I look like a lady in her twenties , I just smile . I am actually in my thirties. When people ask me what I do to look the way I do , I struggle to give an answer . I guess it is just the grace of God because I don ’ t do anything special . ” On her plans for 2018 , she said she would rather allow things to happen naturally , adding that she had never been comfortable about revealing her plans to the public. “ For people who know me well , I don ’ t talk too much. I believ...

Gunmen stormed a luxury hotel in Kabul and killed at least six people including a foreigner, sparking a 12-hour battle that left terrified guests scrambling to escape and parts of the building ablaze. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack on the six-storey Intercontinental Hotel on a hilltop overlooking the Afghan capital. People trapped at the top of the building tied bedsheets together and climbed over balconies to escape the overnight assault. One lost his grip and fell in dramatic television footage by Afghanistan’s Tolo News station, which also showed black smoke and flames billowing from the top of the hotel. Special forces were lowered by helicopters during the night onto the roof of the landmark 1960s building, with Afghan security forces killing four attackers in the hours-long assault, the interior ministry said. “Five Afghans and one foreigner have been killed,” interior ministry deputy spokesman Nasrat Rahimi told AFP Sunday, adding around 150 people we...