The World Health Organisation (WHO) and UN World Food Programme (WFP) have launched a new project to improve emergency response to health crises. In a joint statement posted on WHO website, the UN agencies said the project, called INITIATE2, would develop solutions such as disease-specific field facilities and kits. “Following the recent G20 side event co-hosted by the Italian Government and the WFP focusing on the role of logistics in current and future health emergencies, WFP and WHO are launching INITIATE2. “INITIATE2, is a joint project to bring together emergency actors, research and academic institutions, and international and national partners…
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The Imo state police command has confirmed the death of a senior Pastor in Owerri, Thompson Onyekwuru, while trying to separate a fight between couple in the state. The police confirmed the incident in a statement on Monday by the command’s spokesperson, SP Mike Abattam. Abattam said that the incident occurred at Umukoto Nekede in Owerri adding that Onyekwuru was a pastor with the Redeem Christian Church of God (RCCG) in the state. The police said that Onyekwuru, 62, was trying to prevent Obumneke Onyemechileuzo from stabbing his wife, Ogechi Onyemechileuzo, during a fight between the couple, before he was…
Deteriorating economic conditions since 2020 and the COVID-19 pandemic have fuelled an increase in domestic violence and forced marriage in Sudan, a UN-backed study has revealed. The study, Voices from Sudan 2020, published this week is the first-ever nationwide qualitative assessment of Gender-Based violence (GBV) in the country, where a transitional government is now in its second year. Addressing the issue is a critical priority, according to the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) and the Government’s Combating Violence against Women Unit (CVAW), co-authors of the report. “The current context of increased openness by the Government of Sudan, and dynamism by civil…
A cholera outbreak in Jigawa has killed at least 30 people with more than 2,000 hospitalised in the past two months in the state. Dr Salisu Mu’azu, Permanent Secretary, Jigawa State Ministry of Heath, who confirmed the outbreak, said that most of the infected cases were children recorded in nine local government areas of the state. Mu’azu listed Hadejia; Dutse, Kirikasamma, Birnin Kudu and Ringim as some of the areas worst hit by the outbreak. He said that of the 2,000 infected cases, some had been discharged while others were still receiving free medical treatment in government hospitals. The permanent…
Kwara state government has acquired two additional new dialysis machines for the state’s premier General Hospital, thus bringing the equipment to four in the hospital. A statement by Mr Sa’ad Aluko, the Director General of Hospital Board Management on Tuesday in Ilorin, said that this would enable the facility to offer more efficient services and attend to patients with special needs. Aluko said that the acquisition of the machines would end referral of some categories of patents by the hospital to the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH). “Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq saw the need to meet the state’s dialysis services…
As Muslims around the world celebrate Eid-el-Kabir, Senator Aliyu Wamakko has observed that tolerance, love and respect for one another as well as prayers were some of the most plausible ways out of Nigeria’s travails. The Senator, in his message to the people of Sokoto and Nigerians said, “The extant woes of Nigeria, including the recurring security challenges are not peculiar to the nation. “These were common global occurrences in the history of evolving nations and though they seem surreal and overwhelming, Nigeria will in sha Allahu, overcome them soon. “To do this however, all the peace loving and law…
The Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Ndufu-Alike, Ebonyi, is to plant more than 100,000 fast growing timbers by 2022, thereby creating as a source of internally generated revenue. The Vice Chancellor, Prof. Sunday Elom, stated this in a statement issued by the institution’s spokesman, Mr Ikechukwu Ubochi, on Tuesday in Abakaliki. Elom also said that the institution would also use the trees to combat climate change. “Efforts will be made to create reserve areas within the university land for aggressive planting of about 100,000 fast-growing timbers by 2022. “It will serve as source of internally generated revenue through timber. These trees…
Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto state has urged Muslims across the country to cleanse our hearts and the intentions of our acts, for the sole purpose of securing the reward from the Almighty and the benefit of society. The governor, in state-wide broadcast early on Tuesday, also urged them to uphold the spirit of sacrifice in dealing with one another and the society at large as well as imbibe the spirit of brotherhood and all the virtues that are symbolised by this holy season. “It is a time to cleanse our hearts and the intentions of our acts, for the…
Security operatives have arrested the Yoruba nation agitator, Sunday Igboho in Cotonou, Benin Republic, DailyTracker has reported. Reports say he was arrested by security forces in Benin Republic at an airport in Cotonou on Monday night. Igboho’s arrest is coming three weeks after the Department of State Services, DSS, declared him wanted for allegedly stockpiling arms. He has since denied the allegation. A source told DailyTracker that Igboho would be repatriated to Nigeria on Tuesday (today) from Benin Republic. “He was arrested in Cotonou while he tried to travel out on Monday night. His destination was Germany. The security forces…
A few years to the next round of fresh national elections, Nigeria is in the midst of a protracted, bitter, often violent, and sometimes deadly struggle to determine what kind of society and government structure it will have, and what kind of future Nigerians can hope for. Two years away from the 2023 general elections, it is too early to know how this struggle will turn out, or what the process will be like, until some more or less settled pattern emerges. But it is not too early to know what the current tenants at the Aso Rock Presidential Villa…