Protracted and messy wars mean more than 600 million women and children worldwide cannot receive essential healthcare, according to estimates published in The Lancet medical journal. By 2019, the authors wrote, there were 54 “state-based armed conflicts” in 35 countries – wars that had lasted an average of two decades and presented a “growing threat to humanitarian access and the delivery of essential health services, affecting at least 630 million women and children.” The research team, from nine institutions, including Stanford University and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, estimated that by 2017, 10 per cent of the world’s women and 6…
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The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed 964 cases of the COVID-19, taking the tally of infections in the country to 121,566. The NCDC disclosed this on its official website on Sunday. The country has so far tested 1,258,534 people since the first confirmed case of COVID-19 was recorded on February 27, 2020. The country has also recorded its lowest daily figure of new coronavirus infections since January 3, when 917 cases wete reported. The agency also confirmed additional two coronavirus-related deaths in the past 24 hours, taking the death toll to 1,504. It noted that the additional 964 new…
Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador announced on Sunday on Twitter that he had tested positive for COVID-19. Obrador added that his symptoms were light and that he was receiving medical treatment. Mexico is in the grip of a second wave of the pandemic, with the country’s official death toll from COVID-19 set to pass a grim milestone of 150,000 in coming days. “As always, I am optimistic,” Lopez Obrador, 67, said in a tweet. Reuters
The Police Command in Zamfara, says it had establish two additional police outposts in Kanoma and Janbako Communities of Maru and Maradun local government areas of the state, the scenes of recent bandits’ attack that claimed 40 lives. The command’s spokesperson, SP Muhammad Shehu in a statement in Gusau on Sunday, said the development came on the heels of a condolence and assessment visit by governor Bello Mohammed on January 23, to Kanoma and Janbako districts, over the recent attacks on the communities. During the visit, the governor directed that all the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) should be returned to…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has urged Nigerians to ignore fake news making the round that it would resume its Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) on Monday. The commission, in a flyer titled “Fake News Alert” on its social media on Sunday, said no date had been fixed for such exercise. “INEC wishes to inform the general public that no date has been fixed for the resumption of the CVR. “We implore Nigerians to ignore the fake news making the rounds that the commission will open the register of voters from Jan. 25,” the flyer stated. The commission suspended the…
Chairmen of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 19 northern states are to meet in Jos on Tuesday to brainstorm on how to further move the party forward. Chief Letep Dabang, Chairman, Forum of 19 States APC Chairmen, who is also Chairman of the APC in Plateau, disclosed this newsmen in Jos. Letep said that the meeting which was holding periodically in different states of the federation was coming at a time when the party had concluded all modalities to welcome new members into its fold as well as revalidate its existing membership. He stated that the clamour by…
By Abdulrauf Muqaddas I have followed with interest newspaper reports that tend to suggest that a decision had not yet been made on the replacement for the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) as the incumbent, Mohammed Adamu is due to retire. I find it hard to believe that the government is only now considering the replacement for the top post in the Nigeria Police Force. I find it even harder to believe reports that senior officials of the administration are currently divided on the issue of the IGP’s succession with some working for extension of Adamu’s tenure, and others pressing for…
The Accountant General of the Federation, (AGF), Ahmed Idris has reportedly defied an order of the court and that of the Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, to pay five years salary arrears to a former spokesperson of NEMA, Mr. Yushau Shuaib. The National Industrial Court in Abuja had on November 22, 2017 in a judgment ordered the federal government to pay salary arrears to Yushau from 2013 till the date of judgment when he was unlawfully removed from his job. Justice David Isele in the judgment also ordered that Yushau be reinstated into office without any loss to seniority, salaries,…
The Defence Headquarters says the Air component of Operation Thunder Strike has neutralised several armed bandits at Chikwale Forest in the Mangoro area of Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State. Maj.-Gen. John Enenche, Coordinator Defence Media Operations, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday. Enenche said the operation was conducted on Saturday following credible intelligence reports indicating the significant presence of bandits in the area, about 20km West of the Kaduna-Abuja Highway. ”Accordingly, after series of confirmatory aerial surveillance missions, the Air Component dispatched an appropriate force package of Nigerian Air Force (NAF) fighter jets and helicopter gunships to…
The Ebonyi Police command have confirmed the death of eight persons and arrest of more than 60 others, following clashes between Effium and Ezza Effium communities in Ohaukwu local government area of the state. The Commissioner of Police in the state, Aliyu Garba, made the disclosure on Sunday during a joint security operation, which included the state Deputy Governor, Dr Kelechi Igwe, to the affected areas. Garba, while stating that normalcy had returned to the communities, also confirmed that about eight houses, including a petrol station, were burnt. “The crisis was fuelled by a leadership tussle at the area’s branch…