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Protesting Students Shut Down Nigerian Highway

Protesting Students Shut Down Nigerian Highway

By Peoples&Politics Students of the University of Benin on Wednesday took to the streets, blocking the ever-busy Benin-Ore Highway to protest weeks of power outages on the campus. The students, who have only two weeks until their first semester examinations, said the situation was severely affecting their preparation. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) gathered that the university was thrown into a blackout following the inability to reach an agreement with the Benin Electricity Distribution Company (BEDC) over a contentious electricity bill. The management of the institution was said to have expressed discontent after the Benin Disco reportedly made an…
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Tinubu Signs Executive Order Suspending Import Duties On Pharmaceutical Products

Tinubu Signs Executive Order Suspending Import Duties On Pharmaceutical Products

By Johnson Nwankwo President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has signed an executive order suspending tariffs, excise duties, and value-added tax (VAT) on imported pharmaceu machinery and other inputs. It was gathered that the move was to make the essential commodities affordable. The coordinating minister of health and social welfare, Muhammad Ali Pate, stated the signing on Friday. He said the initiative aims to rejuvenate Nigeria’s health sector and increase local production of pharmaceuticals, diagnostics, medical devices such as needles and syringes, biologicals, and medical textiles. The order to be codified by the minister of justice and attorney general of the federation,…
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Colleagues Launch Appeal For Alimi, Journalist Suffering Kidney Failure

Colleagues Launch Appeal For Alimi, Journalist Suffering Kidney Failure

Friends and colleagues of Abubakar Alimi, a journalist based in Lokoja, Kogi state, have launched an appeal for funds to enable him undergo kidney transplant. The Publisher of Kogi Express, the leading community newspaper in Lokoja, Kogi State, is presently on admission at the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital, Gwagwalada in the Federal Capital Territory. Alimi at the hospital His colleagues, Sheddy Ozoene, Dada Ahmed and James Oyewole are appealing to public-spirited individuals and organizations to come to his assistance. For the past five months he has been down with kidney failure and now admitted to the University of Abuja…
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Tiwa Savage On Why She Looks Younger Than 42

Tiwa Savage On Why She Looks Younger Than 42

42-year-old Tiwa Savage has spoken on why she looks younger than her age. In a recent story shared by the mother of one on Instagram, she outlined the reasons and attributes of her cute looks. Savage listed her talent, good heart and wealth status as some of the attributes that have made her look younger than 42. “Okay even me sef, I agree say I no look my age for this picture. I get babyface, I come sexy, get talent, good heart, I come get money again ahn ahan,” she outlined in Pidgin English. Tiwa Savage The singer was in…
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Manage Blood Sugar, Diabetes With Healthy Foods

Manage Blood Sugar, Diabetes With Healthy Foods

There are at least 10 healthy food swaps that will help you manage blood sugar and diabetes. They come along with lifestyle modifications and regular exercise. People with prediabetes or diabetes need to be extremely careful with their eating habits. As such, sometimes it can get tricky to ascertain which foods and drinks make for the best choices. Lentils, kidney, black or chickpea beans are low glycemic index foods. It means that their carbohydrates are gradually released, and hence they’re less likely to cause blood sugar spikes. They’re so beneficial that a recent study found that eating a daily cup…
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18 party outfits so good you won’t flake on plans

18 party outfits so good you won’t flake on plans

Fun, as you might imagine, was not how I would describe this adventure. Awesome? Yes. Fun? No. N.O. No way. But would I do it again? If I could rewind to that moment when the alarm went off at 4:30 a.m. to throw on clothes, grab our packs and trek up that mountain, would I? You bet your buttons I would. Here’s lives at the intersection of fun and scary. One of my companions summed the whole experience up perfectly. He leaned back in his chair at dinner that night, shrimp taco in hand, “These are the kinds of experiences…
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How resort collections conquered the fashion cycle

How resort collections conquered the fashion cycle

Fun, as you might imagine, was not how I would describe this adventure. Awesome? Yes. Fun? No. N.O. No way. But would I do it again? If I could rewind to that moment when the alarm went off at 4:30 a.m. to throw on clothes, grab our packs and trek up that mountain, would I? You bet your buttons I would. Here’s lives at the intersection of fun and scary. One of my companions summed the whole experience up perfectly. He leaned back in his chair at dinner that night, shrimp taco in hand, “These are the kinds of experiences…
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Covid-19: Pfizer Says A Fourth Shot May Be Necessary

Covid-19: Pfizer Says A Fourth Shot May Be Necessary

Federal health officials are continuing to monitor whether another booster dose will be needed and, if so, when. Pfizer is close to submitting data to the United States Food and Drug Administration on a fourth dose of its Covid-19 vaccine, according to CEO Albert Bourla. “Clearly there is a need in an environment of omicron to boost the immune response,” he told CNBC in an interview Friday. Protection from the first two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine waned substantially against the omicron variant, research found, though a booster shot restored much of that protection. But Bourla said Friday that Pfizer's…
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10 Benefits of Spa Treatments

10 Benefits of Spa Treatments

Listed below are some great reasons that might encourage you to take a spa treatment of your choice. 1. Bonding Session Just like the pub or the park, spas are now widely seen as a place one can hang out. More people are visiting spas in groups. People tend to use that as a motivating factor to visit the spa regularly. Friends and family usually make the sessions lively. It offers the perfect avenue for you to interact while receiving your treatment. 2. Detox Detoxification is getting rid of the unhealthy and toxic substances from the body. There’s no better…
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Science explains why we should all work shorter hours in winter

Science explains why we should all work shorter hours in winter

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