The Federal Ministry of Education in partnership with the World Bank and other stakeholders have begun implementation of the National School- Based Deworming Programme (NSBDP) in the country. Mr Peters Ojonuba, Institutional WASH specialist with the World Bank assisted Sustainable Urban and Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project (SURWASH) programme said this in Abuja on Thursday. He said told the objective of the deworming programme was to eradicate parasitic worms as a public health problem in Nigeria. School-based deworming is a low-cost effective program that takes advantage of existing school structures and trains teachers to administer deworming treatment (safe tablets)…
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
An NGO, International Rescue Committee (IRC) in collaboration with the European Union (EU) has provided healthcare services to 316,887 people in rural areas affected by insurgency in Borno. The Country Director of IRC, Mr Babatunde Anthony, made this known on Thursday in Gwoza town at the inauguration of the Gwoza General Hospital complex constructed by IRC with funding from the EU. Anthony said 182,900 women and 133,987 men received treatments in Gwoza, Mafa, Konduga and Magumeri LGAs under the Response, Recovery and Resilience project. The project, he said, aims to strengthen health services in Borno. ”The maternity ward put in…
The Defence Headquarters says the troops of the Joint Task Force (North East), Operation Hadin Kai, eliminated 85 Boko Haram/Islamic State of West African Province (ISWAP) terrorists in one month. The Acting Director, Defence Media Operation, Brig.-Gen. Bernard Onyeuko, disclosed this while giving an update on the military operations across the country between Sept. 2 and Sept. 30, on Thursday in Abuja. Onyeuko also disclosed that a total of 2,783 terrorists and their family members surrendered to the troops as a result of the intensity of fire from artillery and air bombardment during the period as part of ongoing mass…
An Upper Shari’a Court sitting in Kano, on Thursday, adjourned until Oct.14, the trial of a Kano cleric, Abduljabbar Nasiru-Kabara, charged with blasphemy against the Holy Prophet Muhammad. The plea of Nasiru-Kabara, who is facing a four count charge borderimg on blasphemy, was not taken by the court. The charges were preferred against him by the Kano state government. Earlier, the Prosecution counsel, Mr Suraj Sa’eda SAN, had informed the court that the defendant committed the offence on August 10, October 25 and December 20, all in year 2019. He alleged that the defendant made blasphemous comments against Prophet Muhammad…
Former French president, Nicolas Sarkozy has been sentenced to one year under house arrest over illegal campaign financing, a court in Paris ruled on Thursday. The court ruled that the 66-year-old could serve the sentence in the form of electronically monitored house arrest with an ankle bracelet. According to the court, Sarkozy exceeded the capped campaign expenses in 2012 in his ultimately failed re-election campaign, the conservative governed from the Elysee Palace from 2007 to 2012. In France, campaign expenses are capped to create more equality of opportunity between candidates. The maximum allowed in 2012 was 22.5 million euros (26.1…
The National Primary Health Care Development Agency, (NPHCDA) says there is no scientific evidence suggesting COVID-19 vaccination can cause infertility in men or women. The Executive Director, NPHCDA, Dr Faisal Shuaib said on Thursday in Abuja that the COVID-19 vaccination among populations of reproductive age was safe. ”All available COVID-19 vaccines have demonstrated high efficacy among their respective clinical trial endpoints. “Additionally, a growing body of evidence suggests that fully vaccinated people are less likely to have symptomatic infection or transmit SARS-CoV-2 to others,” he said. He called on obstetrician- gynecologists and other women’s health care practitioners to lead by…
Former governor of Imo state, Sen. Rochas Okorocha said he desired in his lifetime to take one million children off the street and provide them free quality education. Okorocha, who represents Imo West Senatorial District in the Senate, stated this on Wednesday in Abuja while speaking with a select group of journalists ahead of his 59 years birthday celebration on Thursday. According to him, his contract at 59 is to promote education for the less privileged, the downtrodden who lacked access to education. Okorocha said that providing care and education for the downtrodden children across Africa meant much to him…
The federal government of Nigeria has renewed its support for local production of essential medicines in accordance with the National Drug Policy (NDP) 2004. The Director, Federal Department of Agriculture (FDA), Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD), Mrs Karima Babangida, said this in Enugu during a stakeholders’ meeting. The theme of the meeting was “Production and Commercialisation of Artemisia Annua for Income Generation, Job Creation, Food and Health Benefits”. The director was represented by the Deputy Director, Horticulture, FMARD, Mrs Omotosho Agbani. Artemisia Annua, native to China, is prominent because of its compound called Artemisinin found in the…
Operatives of the Uyo Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission ( EFCC), on Wednesday, arrested 21 suspected internet Fraudsters a sting operation at World Bank Housing Estate, Umuahia, Abia state. A statement by the spokesperson of the commission, Wilson Uwujaren made available to ASHENEWS on Thursday said “The arrested suspects are: Onwuka John Urum, Nwigwe Favour Uzochukwu, Marvelous Igwe Chikaodiri, Egbulef Promise, Okolo Christopher, Okoye Kosiso Chukwu, Uzor Kingsley Nzube, Okafor Jeremiah Onyedikachi, Okoji Franklin Akachukwu and Emmanuel Chibuike. Others are Okechukwu Oko, Miracle Chubueze, Sunday Eze Goodnews, Nwache Justice, Azubuike Chikwado, Obioma Prince Chinomso, Nwazo Collins…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) will appeal the ruling today by Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court stopping the Commission from retrying a former governor of Abia State, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, a statement by the commission’s spokesperson, Wilson Uwujaren on Wednesday said. Kalu was serving a 12-year jail term for N7.1billion fraud when the Supreme Court, ruling on an appeal by Kalu’s co-defendant, Ude Udeogu, on 8 May 2020, nullified the proceedings leading to their conviction. The Supreme Court had ordered a retrial at the Federal High Court. But kalu who profited from the ruling…