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Covid-19: UNESCO Laureate Reacts To UNPA Reports On Unintended Pregnancies, Advises On Family Planning

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  ….As UNESCO Laureate authenticates UNFPA reports, Researchers view on the negative effects of Lockdown By Victor Bieni UNESCO Laureate, Professor Sir Bashiru Aremu has said that the only way the global Community can manage the COVID- 19 Pandemic unplanned pregnancies rate, gender-based violence and other harmful practices and the number “skyrocket in Millions” in the months ahead as reported by United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) is by adopting family planning approaches in their lives. UNESCO Laureate, Prof Sir Bashiru Aremu while reacted to a report released by the United…

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Pompeo says ‘significant’ evidence that new coronavirus emerged from Chinese lab

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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Sunday there was “a significant amount of evidence” that the new coronavirus emerged from a Chinese laboratory, but did not dispute U.S. intelligence agencies’ conclusion that it was not man-made. “There is a significant amount of evidence that this came from that laboratory in Wuhan,” Pompeo told ABC’s “This Week,” referring to the virus that emerged late last year in China and has killed about 240,000 people around the world, including more than 67,000 in the United States. Pompeo then briefly contradicted a…

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Mesut Özil donates another £81,333 to charity

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According to a statement on the Turkish Red Crescent website, Özil is donating 713,000 Turkish lira (£81,333) to charity to provide food for those in need. Thousands of families in Turkey, Syria and the Somali capital of Mogadishu will receive his aid. This isn’t the first time Özil has helped the charity. He worked with them last year as well, donating meals to 16,000 people as part of his wedding celebrations. The AFC Bell also recently reported that Özil is preparing to donate a share of his money to a…

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COVID-19: Caring For Daily Income-Earners Our Major Challenge — Okowa 

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  Delta Governor, Sen. (Dr) Ifeanyi Okowa, said the state faced a major challenge in dealing with the informal sector in the prevailing lockdown aimed at preventing the spread of COVID-19.   He said this recently at “The Platform”, the Annual Worker’s Day programme of the Covenant Christian Centre dedicated to Nigeria’s Battle Against COVID-19 on Channels TV monitored in Asaba via Skype.   The governor disclosed that it was a tough challenge making those who relied on daily income to comply with the sit-at-home order of the state government.…

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Police detain Clarence Peters over popular dancer’s death

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Music director and producer Clarence Peters is currently being detained by the Lagos State Police Command over the death of popular dancer, Love Divines known as Kodak. This happened after reports emerged that the popular dancer died at Peters’ house on Wednesday while charging her iPhone. It was reported that the dancer was barefooted and sat near the door of the residence while operating the plugged phone when the incident happened. According to reports, she suffered chest burns when the phone fell on her body and died before they got…

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COVID-19: Cloth Mask, the beauty and the DANGERS

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By Larry Dada The world has come to place where humanity is not alien to tragedies: be it from environmental catastrophe, to social wars and even the nearest form of pandemic outbreak. In all cases, people are attacked, economies are shut and at extreme cases lives are lost. The recent outbreak of novel corona virus called COVID-19 in Wuhan City of China has spread with a deadly speed that many nations cannot control. Over 170 nations have recorded confirmed cases ranging from tens to hundreds of thousands, within four mouths…

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Nigerian music legend Tony Allen passes on

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Renowned Nigerian drummer Tony Allen has passed on. The co-founder of Afrobeat died in Paris on Thursday aged 79. Allen was the drummer and musical director of music band of Fela Kuti and Africa 70. “Without Tony Allen, there would be no afrobeat”, Fela once said. His manager Eric Trosset told NPR radio that he died of heart attack. Trosse in a Facebook post said: “Your eyes saw what most couldn’t see…as you used to say: ‘There is no end’”. UK musician, Brian Eno had declared that Allen was “perhaps…

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Kidnappers gang-rape female student of UNIPORT, then butcher her to death

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A criminal gang which kidnapped three students of the University of Port Harcourt(UNIPORT), on 7 April, gang-raped the female among them. They then went further to butcher her to death, as well as kill the other two students. The female student was identified as Joy Adoki. The other students were Nelson Nwafor and Fortune Obemba. Police put all the three bodies in bags and later deposited them in the mortuary. The police were able to crack the kidnapping after the arrest on 30 April of the chief suspect, called Friday…

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Mauritius extends lockdown to June 1

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Mauritius on Friday announced the extension of its lockdown until June 1, even as coronavirus cases appeared to plateau in the island nation where the number of victims has not changed in five days. Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth asked the population of the Indian ocean Island for “a little more patience, to avoid any risk of a second wave” as he extended confinement measures that have been in place since March 20 — among the first in Africa. Mauritius — a popular tourist hotspot — initially had the highest number…

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Malaysia rounding up migrants to contain coronavirus spread-police

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Malaysian authorities are rounding up undocumented migrants as part of efforts to contain the spread of coronavirus, the country’s police chief said late on Friday, after hundreds of migrants and refugees were detained in the capital Kuala Lumpur. Over 700 migrants were taken into custody, including young children and ethnic Rohingya refugees from Myanmar, during Friday’s raid in a downtown area where thousands of migrants and asylum-seekers live, rights groups had said. The operation was aimed at preventing undocumented migrants from travelling to other areas amid movement curbs imposed to…

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