The most powerful person in Aso Rock, Abba Kyari; who is the chief of staff to the president, has tested positive to Covid19. No government official can reach President Buhari without him. There is a ripe suspicion that the kitchen cabinet might have been infected. Likewise in Europe, the most powerful person, Angela Merkel the chancellor […]
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Though smartphone usage was gradually increasing prior to the launch of Apple’s iPhone in 2007, the adoption rate of these devices has accelerated in exponential ways during the past half-decade. Whereas the device was once reserved for a small subset of the population, generally limited to serious business owners and other professionals who needed on-the-go
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Geneva – New World Health Organization (WHO) guidance will help countries accelerate efforts to stop people with tuberculosis (TB) infection becoming sick with TB by giving them preventive treatment. A quarter of the world‘s population is estimated to be infected with TB bacteria. These people are neither sick nor contagious. However, they are at greater
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Woke up this morning to the unfortunate reality of the Nigerian state, the failure of her youth to take up responsibilities as the thread and wool that holds her fabric together. Flashback to the time when our past heroes, who were at the time youths, took up giant strides and went through the battles, upheavals, fights
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About a fifth of the world?s population uses Facebook. The social networking site is one of the biggest enterprises in the world today. Now, sources say that a major change in the interface is evident. It is rumored that the company has been testing auto-play video through the network?s news feed. Even if the test
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Experts still don’t know why so few coronavirus cases have been reported in Africa, despite the continent’s large population and China being its top trading partner Read More https://www.newscientist.com/article/2236760-we-dont-know-why-so-few-covid-19-cases-have-been-reported-in-africa/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home Views: 0
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The Italian government has put the entire population of 60 million people on lockdown. People must limit travel except for work or medical reasons, or risk prison or a fine Read More https://www.newscientist.com/article/2236864-italy-on-full-lockdown-to-slow-the-spread-of-coronavirus/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home Views: 0
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The rapid spread of COVID-19 is testing the resilience of robust health systems around the world. WHO and its partners are taking measures to mitigate the potential impact of sustained transmission of the coronavirus in malaria-endemic settings – particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, which shoulders more than 90% of the global malaria burden. To date, a
SINGAPORE: Singapore’s health ministry on Sunday urged its citizens to defer all non-essential travel abroad in an unprecedented move for the Asian transport hub, as part of new measures to control the coronavirus that is fast spreading around the world. Singapore will also tell all entering the country with recent travel history to the Asean
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New evidence on the relationship between sexual health and social context finds a strong association between gender equality, education and family planning Twenty-five years ago, two global events – the International Conference on Population and Development and the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing – formally recognized that women’s health and reproductive choices cannot
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