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Education Health NewsGCI Sensitizes Stakeholders on Gender Responsive Education Planning In Adamawa

Ibrahim Abdul' Aziz (Correspondent)February 3, 2021

By Ibrahim Abdul’Aziz, Regional Correspondent _____ In a renewed effort towards ensuring equality and achieving desired results in girl-child education, Gender at the Centre Initiative (GCI), had held a high-level meeting on gender-responsive education sector planning in Adamawa state. The sensitization meeting was aimed to brainstorm with stakeholders on responsive education planning in the midst of the COVID-19 Pandemic. The Gender at the Centre Initiative (GCI) is a global alliance of civil society and international...

Coronavirus Health News NigeriaBREAKING: KNSG Seals Hospital Over COVID-19 Violation

PilotnewsFebruary 2, 2021

KANO — The Kano State Government has shut down a private hospital, UMC Zahir Hospital in Kano, for admitting and treating severe cases of COVID-19. The state Commissioner for Information, Mr. Muhammad Garba, announced this in a statement on Tuesday evening in Kano. Garba said that the facility refused to refer cases to designated isolation centres in the state. He said the action was in accordance with the standard set by the state Task Force...

Lifestyle Nigeria PoliticsSenate Committee Rejects Voting Rights for Married Underage Girls

Beloved John (Staff Writer)February 2, 2021

ABUJA — Senator Kabiru Gaya, chairman of the Senate Committee on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), has said the suggestion that married underage girls should have the right to vote has been rejected. The senator disclosed this while at the NAN Forum in Abuja on Tuesday. The matter had generated widespread criticism when it was brought up in the senate in December 2020. According to Gaya, a memorandum on the matter was “submitted by...

Health News Wellness10 Persons Infected As Strange Disease Hit Bauchi Village

Ibrahim Abdul' Aziz (Correspondent)February 1, 2021

By Ibrahim Abdul’Aziz, Regional Correspondent _____ At least 10 persons have been infected by a strange disease that is causing human legs to swell in Bara village along Gombe road in Kirfi Local Government Area of the State, health officials confirmed. The Executive Chairman of Bauchi State Primary Health Care Development Agency (BASPHCDA) Dr. Rilwanu Mohammed who announced this while briefing newsmen on the commemoration of the 2021 World Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD) Day celebration...

Health News WellnessNasarawa State Records 170 Cases of Leprosy Disease In Three Years

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)February 1, 2021

The Acting Medical Director of Leprosy Colony at the ERCC Medical Centre, Alushi Village in Nasarawa Eggon Local Government Area Mr. Dauda Kaze said Nasarawa State government has recorded no fewer than 170 cases of leprosy disease. Kaze stated this on Sunday as the state marked this year’s World Leprosy Day, added that patients could not be treated due to the non-availability of the needed drugs. “Between 2019 and last year, the hospital, which is...

Health World NewsNeglected Tropical Diseases Affects Billions Of Children In The World-Prof Isa

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)January 31, 2021

Adamawa State Health Commissioner Prof. Abdullahi Isa said Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) affect approximately more than half a billion children worldwide. Neglected Tropical Diseases are a group of parasitic and bacterial diseases to include Lymphatic filariasis (elephantiasis), Onchocerciasis (river blindness), Trachoma, schistosomiasis (snail fever). Briefing Journalists against the backdrop of World Neglected Tropical Diseases Day at the Ministry of Health conference Hall, Prof. Isa explained that Adamawa state is being supported by a Non-governmental Organization Helen Keller International in the fight against the...

Entertainment Music NewsP-Square Was Never A Group of Two Singers, But One Dancer and Singer – Rudeboy

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)January 30, 2021

Nigerian singer, Paul Okoye, popularly known as Rudeboy, and his twin brother, Peter, professionally known as Mr. P, without argument, were one of the most popular twins in Africa when they both belong to the same music group called P-Square. However, there have been many speculations and conjunctures after the group broke up some years back, many have wondered about what could have gone wrong. In an interview with The Punch, Rudeboy disclosed that the...

Entertainment Lifestyle MusicCountry Star Kris Kristofferson Quietly Bows

PilotnewsJanuary 30, 2021

LOS ANGELES — Country singer-songwriter Kris Kristofferson has quietly retired from touring after more than 50 years in the music business. The news, buried in a news release earlier this week, comes a year after the “Me and Bobby McGee” singer played his last gig on the Outlaw Country Cruise in the Caribbean in January 2020. As the coronavirus pandemic shuttered live music venues last year, Kristofferson’s decision not to return to the road felt...

Coronavirus Health Infrastructure NewsUNFPA Donates PPEs to Health Facilities in 5 States

PilotnewsJanuary 30, 2021

KADUNA — The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) on Friday donated Personal Preventive Equipment (PPEs) to health facilities in Kaduna, Kano, Sokoto, Bauchi and the Gombe States. Ms. Mariama Darboe, Programme Coordinator and Head of Office, UNFPA Decentralised Office for Northern Nigeria, made this known in Kaduna. Darboe handed over the PPEs for Kaduna, Kano, and Sokoto to the Planned Parenthood Federation of Nigeria (PPFN) for distribution to benefiting health facilities in the states. She...

Labour Lifestyle NewsPolice Sack Single Female Officer for Getting Pregnant

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)January 28, 2021

Nigerian Police Force has sacked a female corporal, Olajide Omolola, for getting pregnant out of wedlock. The police authority in a wireless message with reference number CJ:4161/EKS/IY/Vol.2/236, DTO:181330/01/2021 obtained by PUNCH Metro, said Omolola was dismissed for getting pregnant while unmarried. The signal originated from the Department of Finance and Administration in Ado Ekiti and was addressed to the Divisional Police Officer at Iye Ekiti, where the victim was based. It asked the chief financial...

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