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By Ikenna Osuoha, News Agency of Nigeria There are clear evidences to prove that the global health emergency otherwise called COVID-19 has impacted negatively on world population. Typical of a pandemic, it has affected the population in all ramifications, especially with the increase in maternal mortality. Dr Eyitayo Oyetunji, the acting Chairman, National Population Commission
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Armed only with a knife, Issa Tamboure was no match for gun-wielding jihadists who attacked his village in northern Burkina Faso in March. So Tamboure, 63, rounded up his family — including his 13 children — and ran, eventually reaching a camp for people displaced by violence. But Tamboure was not a typical civilian fleeing
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By Marie-Therese Nanlong IT is no longer news that cases of rape are on the increase across various states in Nigeria and communities in Plateau State are not isolated from this menace. Reports abound of cases where grown adults rape very young children including a three-month-old baby who needed surgery to correct the harm done
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Coronavirus outbreaks have swept through several oil, gas and mining sites in Russia and Kazakhstan, where major international firms from Total to Chevron and local giants like Gazprom are operating. Thousands have been infected at several sites and at least two have died, as operators scramble to contain the disease’s deadly spread. Workers live in
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By Brown Ukananefimoni The Petroleum Training Institute, PTI, was set up by the enactment of Act No. 37 of 1972, and subsequently amended by Act No. 52 of 1975 and PTI Act CAP P16, 2004. Consequently, the Act vested powers in the institute to train all levels of technical manpower required in the oil and
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By Agbonkhese Oboh Visits to major and mini waterworks in Lagos State have shown that water shortage might be the weak link in the state’s commendable efforts in curtailing COVID-19 pandemic. As the state comes out of a lockdown, a second wave might have a lot to do with hygiene in the densely-populated suburbs. This
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Excerpt: The cost of handsets has become a significant barrier to mobile Internet adoption and use. The COVID-19 pandemic has reinforced how important connectivity is in the modern world. As it has become more challenging to communicate directly, the use of ICT has become even more critical for the dissemination of information by government, experts,
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By Chioma Obinna President of the Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, Dr Francis Faduyile has described the newly approved N20, 000 hazard allowance increment as gross underpayment in view of risks involved in the COVID-19 pandemic. Faduyile, in a chat, said although the development is a good gesture, it does not meet the required hazard allowance
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Women and children fell to the ground, bloodied and trampled in a desperate surge for food being handed out in a Nairobi slum, as police fired teargas and men with sticks beat the hungry. As African countries grapple with the coronavirus pandemic, observers warn that the traumatic scenes which played out last Friday will not
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In a pre-dawn raid in food-starved Zimbabwe, police enforcing a coronavirus lockdown confiscated and destroyed 3 tons of fresh fruit and vegetables by setting fire to it. Wielding batons, they scattered a group of rural farmers who had traveled overnight, breaking restrictions on movement to bring the precious produce to one of the country’s busiest
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