A consultant Haematologist, Dr Uche Nwokwu, says over 80 per cent of childhood cancers are curable because children respond faster to anticancer medicines and other forms of treatment, including surgery and radiotherapy than adults. Nwokwu, a consultant at the National Cancer Control Programme of the Ministry of Health, disclosed this in an interview in Abuja. He said that childhood cancers were curable to a large extent if they were detected early, because children respond to chemotherapy faster and they may also benefit from stem cell transplant better than adults. ”The most common types of childhood cancers include leukemias, lymphomas (especially…
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has intercepted 200 kilogrammes of illicit drugs attempted to be smuggled out of the country by traffickers through the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, MMIA, Lagos; Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja and Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport, Kano. A statement by the spokesperson of the Agency, Femi Babafemi on Sunday, said “at the Lagos airport, a 41-year-old Adewuyi Olayinka was arrested while trying to export 650 grammes of cocaine wrapped in two parcels to the United Kingdom through the SAHCO export shed of the MMIA cargo, Ikeja. “According to the Commander, MMIA Command of…
Sokoto governor Aminu Tambuwal has said that he is not surprised that the All Progressives Congress, APC, would not participate in the local government council elections scheduled to hold in the state on March 27. The governor said at the inaugural zonal campaign of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for the council polls, held in Gwadabawa town, headquarters of Gwadabawa local government of the state. The Sokoto East is comprised of Isa, Rabah, Goronyo, Illela, Gada, Sabon Birni, Wurno and Gwadabawa local governments councils. According to Tambuwal, the APC had lost focus as well as confidence of Nigerians for failed…
Following Benue governor Samuel Ortom’s outcry that Fulani gunmen attacked him on his farm in Makurdi on Saturday, the Inspector General of Police, IGP Mohammed Adamu, has ordered investigation into the alleged attack. A statement by the spokesperson of the Force, CP Frank Mba made available to newsmen on Saturday, also condemned the incident and ordered deployment of specialized investigators from the Force Criminal Investigations Department (FCID), Abuja. “The IGP who condemned the incident, has equally directed the Commissioner of Police in Benue State to take adequate measures towards strengthening and improving security in the state, particularly around the Governor.…
Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State, his Deputy Alhaji Munir Dan’iya and some other government officials were on Saturday administered doses of COVID-19 vaccines. Addressing newsmen shortly after taking the vaccine, Tambuwal urged people in the state to make themselves available for the vaccination. “Today I have taken my jab of the COVID-19 vaccine. Therefore, I enjoined the good people of Sokoto state to come forward and obtain the vaccine against COVID-19 pandemic. “As we are all aware prevention is better than cure, therefore, instead of running halter skelter in need of support it is better to take preventive measure…
Experts say harmonisation of Participatory Guarantee System (PGS) standards of organic agriculture in West Africa will guarantee quality of produce and enhance trade in the region. They gave the assurance at the virtual four-day workshop on Harmonisation of organic PGS Standards across West Africa and Regional Organic Trade Fair in West Africa (BioWest Fair). The harmonisation committee comprises six members from Benin Republic, Nigeria, Ghana, Burkina Faso, Senegal, Mali and Togo. Mr Ernest Aubee, Head of Agriculture, ECOWAS Commission, Abuja, and Chairman of Ecological Organic Agriculture (EOA) Regional Steering Committee, said in his opening remarks that the workshop was to…
Denmark said on Saturday that one person had died and another fell seriously ill with blood clots and cerebral haemorrhage after receiving the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccination. The two, both hospital staff members, had received the AstraZeneca vaccine less than 14 days before getting ill, the authority that runs public hospitals in Copenhagen said. The Danish Medicines Agency confirmed it had received two “serious reports”, without giving further details. There were no details of when the hospital staff got ill. Denmark, which halted using the AstraZeneca vaccine on March 11, was among more than a dozen countries that temporarily paused the…
Despite the European Medicines Agency EMA’s conclusion that AstraZeneca vaccine was “safe and effective”, authorities in Finland have joined other Scandinavian countries to suspend the vaccination, Euronews reports. The country’s public health authority said two people developed blood clots after being vaccinated. As a result, jabs will be suspended “until there is more information and a possible causality can be assessed”. Dozens of European countries had suspended the vaccine amid reports of blood clots. Some, such as Italy, Germany and Spain indicated they would restart AstraZeneca vaccinations after the EMA’s safety review on Thursday. But Norway, Sweden and Denmark said…
The Vice- Chancellor of University of Lagos, Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, and another botanist, Dr Temitope Onuminya have won 2021 Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) grants. Mrs Nonye Oguama, a Principal Assistant Registrar, Corporate Affairs of the institution, made the disclosure in a statement on Saturday in Lagos. According to Oguama, the awards are part of the 2021 Biodiversity Information for Development (BID) programme, funded by the European Union. Ogundipe, a Professor of Botany, won a national level grant of €38,000 for his project proposal: “Implementation of the Biodiversity Information and Data System for Coastal Ecosystem in Nigeria”. Onuminya, on the…
President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated Tanzania’s Vice-President Samia Suluhu Hassan as she takes over the country;s president following the death of President John Magufuli. The president’s congratulatory message, to the first ever female president of the country, was released by Malam Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity in Abuja, on Friday. Buhari urged President Samia Hassan to unite the nation and lead the country in a good direction. The president expressed his desire to work with the new Tanzanian president, to advance mutual issues that were of common African and global interest. NAN