President Muhammadu Buhari has thanked Rotary Club for its various interventions in the health sector, particularly putting in 268 million dollars in the fight against Polio. The president gave the commendation when he received Rotary International President, Mr Shekhar Mehta and some officials, at the State House, Abuja on Monday. According to the Nigerian leader, the federal government will continue drawing from the expertise, partnership and consistency learnt from the eradication of Polio in the country to strengthen the health sector. “Nigeria has benefitted from your kind support, most particularly in the fight against Polio, with a total sum of…
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
By Charles Schmidt Nikolai Petrovsky was scrolling through social media after a day on the ski slopes when reports describing a mysterious cluster of pneumonia cases in Wuhan, China caught his eye. It was early January 2020, and Petrovsky, an immunologist, was at his vacation getaway in Keystone, Colorado, which is where he goes most years with his family to flee the searingly hot summers at home in South Australia. He was soon struck by an odd discrepancy in how the pneumonia cases were portrayed. Chinese authorities and the World Health Organization were saying there was nothing to worry about,…
By Bashir Mani The Director-General of the National Youths Service Corps (NYSC), Brig.-Gen. Shuaibu Ibrahim has charged the 2021 Batch ‘B’ Stream 2 corps members to take advantage of the various scheme platforms to build themselves and the nation. A statement by the spokesperson of the Corps, Adenike Adeyemi on Monday said the DG stated this in a virtual address to all the corps members and camp officials nationwide on Monday. Ibrahim urged the corps members to acquire any of the skills from the numerous skills taught in the camps and during the service year. “As some of you might…
Mother Amina Ajayi, Brand Ambassador, Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore socio-cultural association, has unveiled a robust plan to train Fulani pastoralists on modern ranching, modelled after the US. Ajayi made the disclosure in her acceptance speech following her investiture as Miyetti Allah’s Brand Ambassador at the association’s National headquarters in Uke, Karu local government, Nasarawa state. She explained that the first set of trainers and teachers for the Miyetti Allah train-the-trainers’ Cattle Ranch Academy would be traveling to California, USA, in early 2022. “However, before the end of 2021, my office, under the supervision of the Miyetti Allah National President, will…
Mr Maxwell Opara, one of the lawyers defending the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has filed a fundamental right enforcement suit against the Director -General of the Department of State Services (DSS). Opara, in the suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/1018/2021, alleged that he was on Aug. 30, subjected to various degrading treatments when he visited Kanu in a DSS facility. The counsel, who also listed the DSS, as the 2nd respondent in the suit is praying the court to award him N50 million as compensation for the infringement on his fundamental right to dignity. Opara is…
Justice Stephen Dalyop Pam of the Federal High Court in Port Harcourt, Rivers State on Monday refused an application by the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), seeking to stop the Rivers state government from collecting Value Added Tax (VAT). The Federal Inland Revenue Service filed the application in mid-August against the judgment of the same court which had on August 9 ruled that the Rivers State Government, and not the Federal Inland Revenue Service, is entitled to collect Value Added Tax and Personal Income Tax in Rivers State’s territory. The judgment was delivered in a suit filed by the Attorney…
Islamism remains a “first order” security threat and the West should prepare for potential use of biological weapons by extremist groups, former British prime minister Tony Blair said on Monday. Blair said this while speaking at the RUSI security think tank to mark the twentieth anniversary of September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States. The Taliban swept to power in Afghanistan last month as the United States withdrew its troops after a 20-year war. Britain fears the group’s return and the vacuum left by the West’s chaotic withdrawal would allow militants from al Qaeda and Islamic State to gain…
President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan has said that poor standard of education is contributing to the worsening insecurity in the country. Lawan stated this at the eighth matriculation of post-graduate students of National Institute for Legislative Studies (NILDS)/University of Benin for the 2020/2021 academic session, on Monday in Abuja. The programmes being offered by the institute include: Master degrees in Legislative Studies, Legislative Drafting and Parliamentary Administration, among others. Lawan, who was represented by Sen. Degi Biobarakuma (APC-Bayelsa), listed some of the consequences of the problems facing education sector to include: insecurity, rising criminality, anti-social behaviour and high number…
Bone marrow transplants are harrowing. Agnieszka Czechowicz is working to make them safer. By Elizabeth Preston In 2017, Agnieszka Czechowicz watched a four-year-old girl sleeping soundly in a California hospital room. As an experimental drug entered the girl’s vein, all eyes in the room were on the child and the monitors attached to her. Doctors hoped the drug would sneak into the girl’s bones and, with no other harm to her body, wipe out her blood-forming stem cells, clearing the way for a bone marrow transplant that could save her life. Czechowicz felt the moment’s significance in a unique way.…
They once told a king about the existence of a rampaging tiger in his kingdom. He did nothing about it. Each time the carnivorous element devoured any of his subjects, the king would simply mourn, “oh, the trouble has gone.” One after the other, his subjects became depleted and those remaining started taking extra care. Then one day, the tiger visited the palace and made a meal of the heir apparent to the throne. The king, in utter bewilderment, exclaimed “now, trouble has come”. He subsequently mobilised the marksmen among his hunters to hunt down the tiger. But alas, the…