Originally broadcast live on 06 April 2020, the daily press briefing on coronavirus COVID-19, direct from WHO Headquarters, Geneva Switzerland with Dr Tedros WHO Director-General, Dr Micheal Ryan, Executive Director of the Health Emergencies Programme, and Dr Maria Van Kerkhove, Technical lead, WHO Health Emergencies Programme with special guests Lady Gaga and Hugh Evans,…
The Covid-19 pandemic underscores the urgent need to strengthen the global health workforce. A new report, The State of the World’s Nursing 2020, provides an in-depth look at the largest component of the health workforce. Findings identify important gaps in the nursing workforce and priority areas for investment in nursing education, jobs, and leadership to strengthen nursing…
Nothing could be plainer than the effect that the increasing economic security of women is having upon their whole habit of life and mind. The diminishing marriage rate and the even more rapidly diminishing birth rates show which way the wind is blowing. It is common for male statisticians, with characteristic imbecility, to ascribe the fall in the marriage rate to a growing disinclination on the male side. This growing disinclination is actually on the female side. Even though no considerable body of women has yet reached the definite doctrine that marriage is less desirable than freedom, it must be plain that large numbers of them now approach the business with far greater fastidiousness than their grandmothers or even their mothers exhibited. They are harder to please, and hence pleased less often. The woman of a century ago could imagine nothing more favourable to her than marriag
It is my sincere hope that nothing I have here exhibited will be mistaken by the nobility and gentry for moral indignation. No such feeling, in truth, is in my heart. Moral judgments, as old Friedrich used to say, are foreign to my nature. Setting aside the vast herd which shows no definable character at all, it seems to me that the minority distinguished by what is commonly regarded as an excess of sin is very much more admirable than the minority distinguished by an excess of virtue. My experience of the world has taught me that the average wine-bibber is a far better fellow than the average prohibitionist, and that the average rogue is better company than the average poor drudge, and that the wors
The Third Force Forum has urged President Muhammadu Buhari and the Nigerian Governors Forum to start the fee of between N20,000 to N40,000 to low-income earners and self-employed Nigerians as “COVID-19 Intervention Fund”. The discussion board stated the fee must be made to individuals, who earn beneath N50,000 month-to-month. The group posited that pressing actions…
Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, has held a gathering with the Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami (SAN), on steps to be taken to make sure the decongestion of correctional centres (previously prisons) in Nigeria. This is coming three days after inmates on the Kaduna Correctional Centre tried a jailbreak following the worldwide outbreak of…
KOTA KINABALU: The Sabah authorities in principal will not be permitting Ramadan bazaar all through the state this yr in the trouble to curb the Covid-19 outbreak. State Secretary Datuk Safar Untong mentioned the ruling was in line with the federal government’s resolution to ban the ‘tamu’ and farmer’s market. “The state government will make…
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The harmful use of alcohol causes roughly Three million deaths yearly and the general burden of illness and accidents attributable to alcohol consumption stays unacceptably excessive. The tempo of improvement and implementation of alcohol insurance policies has been uneven in WHO areas, and assets and capacities for implementation of the WHO Global technique to reduce…
Governor Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom State has introduced a 14-day lockdown within the state to stop the unfold of Coronavirus. This is coming after the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control confirmed 5 circumstances within the state. Though the federal government had initially denied the end result by the NCDC and mentioned one other…