The need for a clean environment cannot be overemphasized. Medical experts hold that cleanliness reduces incidents of outbreak of diseases. This fact cannot be disputed. Indeed nexus exists between a clean environment and a healthy society. Anyone who looks around Owerri, the Imo State capital with sincerity will agree that the city and its environs have profound lapses in environmental cleanliness. The reasons for Owerri ‘s apparent decline in terms of environmental sanitation range from dumping of refuse indiscriminately especially, when some people including road sweepers make a habit of…
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KIDNAPPINGS, BANDITRY: NANS Knocks NCC’s Inability To Track Criminals, Abductors In Nigeria.
…Okunomo:NIN-SIM Registration failed exercise Many times, people have wondered how the kidnappers and other bandits who are causing untold mayhem in the country, manage to get away, even after they are captured on videos, recorded on other devices and most of all when they make contact with their victims’ families. Consequently, the Senate President of the Nigerian Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, Henry Okunomo has expressed deep worry that in this age of tech advancement and the height Nigeria has attained in technological development, kidnappers could make contact with a…
Read MoreNFF appoints new Super Eagles coach
The Nigeria Football Federation has announced the appointment of a German tactician, Bruno Labbadia, as the new Super Eagles coach, with immediate effect. The statement read, “The Nigeria Football Federation has announced that it has reached an agreement with German tactician, Bruno Labbadia, to become the Head Coach of Nigeria’s senior men’s national team, Super Eagles.” “The NFF Executive Committee has approved the recommendation of its Technical and Development sub-committee to appoint Mr Bruno Labbadia as the Head Coach of the Super Eagles,” according to the federation’s General Secretary, Dr…
Read MoreORAUSA Holds 2024 Convention, To Build Multimillion Naira Medical Facility In Orlu
The Orlu Regional Assembly USA Inc (ORAUSA) a socio cultural organization of indigens of Orlu zone resident in the United States of America have concluded their annual Convention held in Boston, Massachusetts from June 19 to June 23, 2024. The convention as usual started with welcoming of the accredited delegates and their families by the ORAUSA National President, Dr Uzo Unegbu and visit to selected national monuments and points of attraction within the hosts area. On Friday June 21, the convention was officially declared open with a meeting of the…
Read MoreGovt rolls out new HIV prevention drugs for men
The government has launched an innovative program to provide HIV-negative men with event-driven pre-exposure prophylaxis (ED-PrEP) medication to prevent HIV infection. This initiative targets men who engage in infrequent, high-risk sexual encounters. ED-PrEP involves taking two tablets before sexual activity and one tablet daily for two days afterward. The program, which began in September last year, has already attracted 4,000 participants. Dr. Herbert Kadama, PrEP coordinator at the Ministry of Health, notes that this approach is both acceptable and convenient for men with occasional sexual partners. While Uganda’s HIV prevalence…
Read MoreKOMU: Practicum, Psychotherapy- Psychology Dept Hosts Successful Seminar In Imo
The Department of Psychology of Kingsley Mbadiwe University, Ideato, has successfully concluded a seminar on Psychotherapy and Psychology. The seminar which was recently organised for final year students was titled “Practicum in Psychotherapy.” The event aimed to equip students with practical skills to face challenges in the labour market. In his welcome address, a lecturer in the department, Chukwuemeka Amadi, who organized the seminar, commended the Head of Department, Dr. Chukwuemeka Aletta, for his efforts in elevating the department, emphasising the university’s commitment to raising top-notch graduates who would be…
Read MoreHomosexuality, America and the end of humanity
That is why God let go of them and let them do all these evil things, so that even their women turned against God’s natural plan for them and indulged in sex sin with each other. And the men, instead of having normal sex relationships with women, burned with lust for each other, men doing shameful things with other men, and, as a result, getting paid within their own souls with the penalty they so richly deserved. Romans Ch. 1 vs 26-27 (TLB) Woe alas, the end has begun for…
Read MoreHunger: Youths Will Continue To Protest – Catholic Bishops To Tinubu
The Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria (CBCN), has said Nigerians and youths would continue to protest against the economic hardship and hunger until President Bola Tinubu addresses them. The Catholic Bishops said Nigeria is sitting on a keg of gunpowder that would explode any time if the political class failed to wholesomely address the hardship in the country. The Bishops regretted that Nigerian authorities used security agencies against peaceful protesters in the last #EndBadGovernanceinNigeria protest. The President of the Catholic Bishop Conference of Nigeria, Most Rev. Lucius Ugorji, stated this…
Read MoreFederal Teaching Hospital Owerri Not Running Nursing School Yet–Achigbu
…Says: Plans on-going to establish One, Automation still way forward The management of the Federal Teaching Hospital,FTH, Owerri,Imo state has come out publicly, to clear the air on the issue of its purported ownership and running of a Nursing School. It also expressed its readiness to, not only stick with its policy of automation, but also to extend same to every facet of the institutions activities, as well as continuously upgrade the process, in view of its numerous benefits. The Chief Medical Director, CMD, of the Health institution, with tripartite…
Read MoreCBN Must Sit Up As Unavailability Of Cash At Banks’ ATMs Worries Nigerians
Nigerians are grappling with reported unavailability of cash at the Automated Teller Machines,ATM installed in various commercial banks. The situation compels many to resort to the services of POS operators who are seen to have been making brisk business as a result. A Business Day report of July 3 this year, observed “unusual pattern of cash dispensation” in the banks.” The report further observed, “The Nigerian banking sector is facing a crisis of trust and transparency due to an unusual pattern of cash dispensation. There is a growing trend in…
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