The Sokoto state commissioner of Police, CP Muhammed Usaini Gumel has told the state branch of Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) that granting bail to persons by the police is free. He stated this when the executives of the NBA led by the state chairman, Barrister Muhammad Nuhu paid him courtesy visit on Friday. The meeting discussed crucial issues of criminal justice system, including human rights and related matters in line with extant laws and provisions of Nigeria’s constitution, a statement by the spokesperson, DSP Sanusi Abubakar. “The duo brainstormed on challenges that hinder success of litigation and suggested way forward.”…
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed 73 new cases of coronavirus. The Centre disclosed this on its Twitter handle @NCDCgov on Friday night. According to the tweet, Rivers recorded 38 cases, FCT-21, Bayelsa-13 and Kaduna-1. Data in the report added that between June 14 and 15, 2022, Kano, Nasarawa, and Sokoto states recorded zero cases. For a breakdown of cases by state visit https://t.co/zQrpNf5Q61 https://t.co/KE0zfKZMB5 To date, Nigeria has a total of 259,007 confirmed cases with 250,485 total discharges and 3,144 deaths.
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has said that the flooding that occurred in Lagos last weekend claimed seven lives. Zonal Coordinator, South West, NEMA, Mr Ibrahim Farinloye, made the disclosure in a statement issued in Lagos on Wednesday. “The post-emergency phase assessment after the unprecedented rainfall of Friday, July 8 and Saturday, July 9, has revealed that about seven people — three children of same parent and four adults died. “About eight lives were also saved during the period, as a result of the flooding that was witnessed during the two-day continuous rainfall,” he said. Farinloye further stated that…
The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Wednesday advised patients with mild or moderate cases of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) against the use of antidepressant drug, fluvoxamine, and the gout drug colchicine. The organisation said in a statement that current indications did not justify using colchicine to treat non-severe illness, addding that fluvoxamine should not be used without clinical trials According to report by a WHO Guideline Development Group (GDG), the advice became necessary due to insufficient evidence of better results from the use of the drugs and their potential harm. panel of international experts in the British Medical Journal The report,…
By Tel-Aviv University Disintegrating Virus Cell Destroy COVID Concept The injection causes type B white blood cells to be genetically engineered inside the patient’s body that would generate neutralizing antibodies against the HIV virus. The technology also has the potential to be developed into a cure for AIDS A new study from Tel Aviv University proposes a novel AIDS treatment that could be turned into a vaccine or a one-time treatment for HIV patients. The research explored modifying type B white blood cells in the patient’s body to release anti-HIV antibodies in response to the virus. Dr. Adi Barzel and…
The World Health Organisation (WHO) Science Council of experts has called for the equitable expansion of genomics for global health. This is contained in a WHO Science Expert Council report released on Tuesday. The field of genomics uses methods from biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology to understand and use biological information in DNA and RNA, with benefits for medicine and public health—particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic as well as agriculture, biological research, and more. The report called for expanded access to genetic technologies, particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), by addressing shortfalls in funding, laboratory infrastructure, materials, and highly…
The World Health Organization (WHO) has released the first-ever report on the pipeline of the vaccines currently in development, to prevent infections caused by Antimicrobial-Resistant (AMR) bacterial pathogens. A statement issued by the organization on Tuesday said the analysis pointed to the need to accelerate trials for AMR related vaccines in late-stage development and maximise the use of existing vaccines. According to the report, the silent pandemic of antimicrobial resistance is of major growing public health concern. “Resistant bacterial infections alone are associated with nearly 4.95 million deaths per year, with 1.27 million deaths directly attributed to AMR. “But AMR…
The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu has picked former Borno state governor, Kashim Shettima as vice presidential candidate in the 2023 general elections. Making the announcement in a 35 paragraph speech, shortly after he met with President Muhammadu Buhari in Daura on Sunday, stated that although taking religious and ethnic concerns into consideration is important, religion, ethnicity and region cannot always and fully determine our path. “May I say this to all of you, especially to those who will be disappointed in my selection based on religious considerations. I will not and cannot ignore the…
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group approved a €121 million loan to Senegal for implementation of an emergency agricultural programme that will benefit 850,000 small farmers, 35% of whom are women. “Senegal’s dependence on the outside world for basic commodities and foodstuffs is a real bottleneck and poses a threat to the country’s food sovereignty, which has been sharpened by the war in Ukraine,” said Mohamed Chérif, the Bank’s Country Manager for Senegal. “This operation is intended to mitigate exogenous financial, economic, social and climate shocks and to maintain the upward trend in cereal production seen in…
The Association of Master Bakers and Caterers of Nigeria (AMBCN), Ebonyi Chapter, says it will withdraw its services in the state from July 13 as directed by its national body. Mr Felix Eze, Chairman of the association in Ebonyi disclosed this on Saturday in Abakaliki after its meeting on the action scheduled to last for two weeks. Eze said the withdrawal of service was necessitated by alleged federal government’s insensitivity to the plight of bakers across the country which had adversely affected their businesses. “The prices of bakery materials increase steadily as a bag of flour which hitherto cost N25,000…