Day: 2 February 2017

Cure for AIDS: Nigerian Professor discorvers drug for cure and treatment

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Prof. Francis Otunta, the Vice Chancellor (VC), Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike, in Abia, has confirmed the discovery of a new drug for the treatment and cure of HIV/AIDS. Otunta told newsmen at the university campus on Wednesday that the finding followed years of scientific research by the institution.He said that the breakthrough was made by Prof. Maduike Ezeibe, a researcher in the university. According to him, Ezeibe had presented the drug to the University management, Senate and Council, where he explained the processes he went through to arrive…

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Extradiction: Kashamu’s lawyer tackle NDLEA

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Three Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SANs), Lateef Fagbemi, Alex Izinyon and Akin Olujimi, Tuesday described as illegal any attempt to extradite Senator Buruji Kashamu. Fagebmi, Izinyon and Olujimi, in a joint statement, said the United States and the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) would be overstepping their bounds by attempting to extradite the senator. The SANs said: “The US did not appeal against any of the two UK judgments in favour of our client.  The judgments therefore, remain binding against the US and Nigeria for ever.  Rather than appeal…

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allowing communities’ inputs in the budget process is the best way to make its implementation easier” -Tambuwal

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Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal of Sokoto State said allowing communities’ inputs in the budget process is the best way to make its implementation easier for governments. According to him,  adopting the participatory budgeting model allows citizens to identify, discuss, and prioritize public spending projects, and gives them the power to make real decisions about how they want issues affecting them implemented. Tambuwal spoke in Sokoto Tuesday at the opening of a Stakeholders’ Consultative Summit on the state’s 2017 budget. The summit was organized by the Office of the Special Adviser…

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FCDA did not pay Saraki, Dogara rent – Olaniyonu

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The leadership of the National Assembly has dismissed as outright falsehood a claim in a report credited to a group known as Citizen Action to Take Back Nigeria (CATBAN) and published by an online medium, Sahara Reporters, in which it was alleged that the Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, Speaker, Rt. Hon. Yakubu Dogara, and their deputies, Senator Ike Ekweremadu and Rt. Hon. Lasun Yusuff collected money from the Federal Capital Development Authority (FCDA) as rent for their accommodation. In a statement signed by the Special Adviser to the…

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PRESS RELEASE: PROMASIDOR UNVEILS ENTRY GUIDELINES FOR 2017 COWBELLPEDIA SECONDARY SCHOOL MATHEMATICS TV QUIZ SHOW

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Promasidor Nigeria Limited has released the entry guidelines for the 2017 Cowbellpedia Senior Secondary Mathematics Television Quiz Show as the call for entry continues to generate excitement amongst students and their teachers nationwide. Speaking at a press briefing to flag off the competition in Lagos last week, Mr. Festus Tettey, Head of Marketing, Promasidor Nigeria Limited explained to journalists that the Cowbellpedia Secondary School Mathematics TV Quiz Show is open to students in JSS 3 and SSS2 from 10 – 18 years of age attending full time Secondary Education in…

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