First womb transplant carried out in UK The first womb transplant has been carried out by surgeons on a woman in the United Kingdom. The woman’s sister was the living womb donor. According to The Guardian on Wednesday, the unidentified 34-year-old married recipient from England underwent a nine-hour transplant procedure. The married woman was born […]
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By Eze Onyekpere Last week, the Federal Government through the National Economic Council approved N5bn for each state of the federation as a palliative to cushion the harsh effect of fuel subsidy removal. The palliative also includes five trucks of rice for each state. States are to purchase sundry items, including 100,000 bags of rice, […]
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Nigerian music star, Damini Ogulu, popularly known as Burna Boy has said that music should be the essence of the artiste. Speaking with Disk Jockey, Zane Lowe, in an interview that aired via YouTube on Monday, the self-acclaimed African Giant talked at length about his music career and his upcoming album “I Told Them.” When […]
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By Sheriffdeen Tella It is not uncommon to read reports of the destruction of illegal refineries in the Niger Delta region. The appellation ‘illegal’ could have arisen from the fact that the crude oil being refined was stolen from the oil rigs or reserves; or probably because the refineries did not go through official company […]
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President Tinubu and his ministers By Jide Ojo I watched the colourful swearing-in of 45 out of the proposed 48 ministers of President Bola Tinubu last Monday, August 21. It came 84 days after the president’s inauguration on May 29, 2023. It’s the seventh of such in this Fourth Republic which started in 1999. Hearty […]
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An accident scene on Auchi–Okene Road The death of 4,387 persons in road accidents in Nigeria between January and June 2023 draws fresh attention to the shabby state of roads nationwide, the flouting of safety regulations, and the failure of law enforcement agencies to impose order on the highways. The Federal Road Safety Corps stated […]
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Tuberculosis, a lung disease that afflicts millions of people worldwide, is dangerously on the march in Nigeria. “A recent figure from the National Tuberculosis, Leprosy and Buruli Ulcer Control Programme” detailing over 2,000 new positive cases in the first half of 2023 in Plateau State underscores the problem and the need for improved preventive and […]
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A popular actress and filmmaker, Stephanie Linus, has been announced as the chairperson of the Nigerian Official Selection Committee for the Best International Feature Film category of the prestigious Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars. Recall that the founder and former chairperson of the committee, Chineze Anyaene-Abonyi, recently stepped down from the position. The […]
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A Federal Capital Territory High court has struck out two separate fundamental rights enforcement suits by two siblings of the suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, against the Attorney General of the Federation and the Department of State Services. The two brothers, George Emefiele and Okanta Emefiele, had separately approached the […]
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India’s latest space mission entered the Moon’s orbit on Saturday ahead of the country’s second attempt at a lunar landing. This was made known by the Indian Space Research Organisation via Facebook. “Chandrayaan-3 has been successfully inserted into the lunar orbit,” the agency posted. Launched in mid-July, the mission underwent multiple orbits around Earth, gradually […]
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