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For the first time, a vaccine a vaccine has tested positive to abilities to act as protection against gonorrhoea, a sexually transmitted infection. Sscientists in New Zealand say study of 15,000 young people, published in the Lancet, showed infections were cut by about a third. [embedded content] This is coming after the World Health Organisation […]

Aisha, wife of President Muhammadu Buhari, is happy and has raised the hope of her husband’s victory over death. She restored hope to Nigerians of their leader’s imminent return from London where he is currently recuperating. [embedded content] The country, has since Monday, been agog over the Facebook posting of Aisha’s vivid picture of hope […]Read More

Share on Facebook Tweet on Twitter Born Oludotun Bayeiwu Jacobs in Abeokuta in Ogun State, Olu Jacobs was trained at prestigious Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London in the ’60s. Uncle Jake as popularly called by close associates later featured in British productions like The Goodies, Till Death Us Do Part, Barlow at Large, […]

Mr. Robert Mugabe, the 93-year-old President of Zimbabwe is sick and has gone to Singapore for treatment or what local media say is “routine medical check-up”. “President Mugabe on Friday left the country for Singapore for a routine medical check-up,” Africa Review quoted local media. [embedded content] The paper said the veteran ruler is expected […]

Chief Ademola Adeleke, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)’s candidate in the Saturday’s Osun West Senatorial District by-election, has described his victory as a new dawn for democracy. Adeleke said, at a news conference on Sunday in Ede, that his electoral victory was “a pointer that PDP will be victorious in the 2018 governorship election in […]Read More

Mudashiru Hussain, the ruling All Progressives Congress candidate may have lost the Osun West Senatorial bye-election to Ademola Adeleke, candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, according to actual results declared at various collation centres in the state. Unofficial results show that Adeleke, brother of the former incumbent, Isiaka Adeleke, swept the two local councils in […]

A student, Akinboyejo Ayeni, 18, was on Friday arraigned in an Okitipupa Magistrates’ Court in Ondo State for allegedly slashing a woman with razor blade. The accused, of no fixed address, is standing trial on a two-count charge of felony and assault. [embedded content] The Prosecutor, Insp. Zedekiah Orogbemi, told court that the accused on […]

Gonorrhoea infections are increasing, but doctors are running out of antibiotics that can fight the increasingly resistant bacteria causing the sexual disease, the World Health Organisation (WHO) warned on Friday. Gonorrhoea is a sexually transmitted infection (STI) caused by bacteria called Neisseria gonorrhoeae or gonococcus. [embedded content] It is mainly found in discharge from the […]

Share on Facebook Tweet on Twitter Nigerian international goalkeeper Carl Ikeme has been diagnosed with acute leukaemia (cancer of the blood). This was disclosed after the Wolves goalkeeper reported back for pre-season training and returned abnormal results on a blood test, according to Express & Star. [embedded content] The 31 year old, Ikeme, will now […]

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Tuesday said only a legitimate court order could stop process for the recall of Sen. Dino Melaye as demanded by his Kogi West constituents. Mr Rotimi Oyekanmi, Chief Press Secretary to the Chairman of the commission, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja that filing a […]

Lyon striker Alexandre Lacazette has agreed to join Arsenal on a five year term for a record fee of £46.5m fee. The fee – up to £52.6m with add-ons – will surpass the £42.4m Arsenal paid Real Madrid for Mesut Ozil in 2013. [embedded content] The 26 year old French International is Arsenal’s second signing […]Read More

Police IGP Deploys DIG, Additional 25,000 Personnel To Edo The Police Service Commission (PSC) has approved the redeployment of four Commissioners of Police for effective and efficient policing. The affected officers are: Johnson Kokumo, the Commissioner of Police, Armament, is now in charge of the Edo Command; David Akinremi, the Commissioner of Police and Deputy […]