Laboratory tests conducted on patients in many teaching hospitals in the country indicate a widespread prevalence of Hepatitis B virus, a major cause of liver diseases.
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Former Vice President and roundly defeated presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, was a pitiful sight to behold on Thursday at the Shehu Yar’Adua Centre, Abuja as he sat like a wreck after addressing what he called a world press conference. He had gone on a wild goose chase to the United States in search of President Bola Tinubu’s certificate.
As part of the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, Diamond Jubilee celebrations, a Special Public Lecture to highlight and buttress the role and contributions of the ABU Faculty of Law to national development has was held on Thursday, 5th October, 2023.
When the noise rented the air like a thunderbolt, one was tempted to conclude that there was substance in their agitations. Quite a few Atiku Abubakar media lapdogs appeared with leaked saliva all over their mouths, seemingly aroused by a false hope of catching President Tinubu’s pants down. Indeed they have been running from one media house to another, trying to sustain a public discourse that would suggest that they have a case. This their latest drama is one of the most insanely and idiotic things I ever saw; their incoherent attempts at jackpot, moved further away from anything that could be considered rational with every stride; and, they have left everyone dumber for having listened to them in the first place. They turned themselves into courts of jurisdiction, and played the role of both the accuser and the Judge. They told us they had germane grounds of appeal; which grounds are pre-election matters. How can they be questioning President Tinubu’s eligibility to run now? Where were they when he declared his interest in becoming Nigeria’s president? This is the desperation I wrote about earlier. These guys are desperately trying to arm-twist the process through the backdoor.
Prof Tukur Baba’s emergence as spokesperson for the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) will make news on two key grounds. First ground is the how crisis communications is, like many other realms in Nigeria, in a state of mess. The second is the emergence of a radical as spokesperson for an organization generally but erroneously regarded as conservative. The ACF is erroneously regarded as a conservative platform because no object has an inherently radical or conservative meaning. All meanings are dependent on what is at stake at a particular time and space. That’s why a rogue can do something profoundly radical just as a man of God or a even a communist can do something profoundly conservative. Investing anybody or anything with a radical or conservative identity on a permanent basis is thus part of our Cartesian heritage which we have so thoroughly internalised as to remain lost in its radius.
At its Summit in India recently, the G20 bloc admitted the African Union (AU) as one of its members, making it of two continental bodies (the other being the European Union) to be admitted into this body.
Shettima Yerima, the President of the Arewa Youth Consultative Forum (AYCF), has been at the forefront of promoting and protecting the general interests of Northern Nigeria. With his strong and influential voice, Yerima has been able to make a mark in the region’s political landscape.
Democracy has largely and globally been defined and accepted as the government of the people, by the people and for the people. Indeed, democracy is a system of government that has come to stay across as under it the people hold sway because they only loan their mandates of authority as a trust to those in the position of elective positions.
India is the world’s second-largest producer of grains, fruits and vegetables. This makes India a target for corporations pushing genetically modified crops. But India’s highest court has blocked planting of genetically-modified crops.
Before the 9th September 2023, Nigerians exhibited a key interest in the would-be outcome of the Presidential Election Petition Court Judgment, as players and supporters of all the political parties in the legal arena had, indirectly sorted the Court of Public Opinion where their various written addresses where in the public domain.