Category: ARTS & LIFESTYLE

Facebook has updated its Terms of Service to enable the removal of contents or restrict user access to avoid lawsuits or regulatory impacts. Facebook said in an announcement on Wednesday that the update would come into effect on October 1. Already it was gathered that some users of Facebook’s app have received notifications regarding the change. The statement said, “Effective October 1, 2020, section 3.2 of our Terms of Service will be updated to include: ‘We also can remove or restrict access to your content, services or information if we…

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A typical Hand Sanitizer, which may cause problem in the future according to medical expert Dr Andrew Kemp, of the University of Lincoln, says alcohol hand gel use could allow other bacteria and viruses on our hands to survive and build resistance Researcher says that there is currently no proof alcohol gel kills the coronavirus WHO advises using hand gel if you cannot immediately access soap and water The mass use of hand gels during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic may create a superbug “armageddon” as other bacteria and viruses build…

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Nana Akufo-Addo, the Ghanaian President has congratulated Nigerian celebrated writer, Dr Wale Okediran, on his appointment as the Secretary-General of the Pan-African Writers Association (PAWA). Akufo-Addo congratulated Okediran in a statement issued by his spokesperson, Nana Bediatuo, and made available to newsmen on Monday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Iseyin-born medical doctor and writer was a former House of Representatives member and President of the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA). Akufo-Addo, in the statement, charged Okediran to use his new position to further the cause of…

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Pictured: Virologists work inside the State Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology in Siberia, which was previously a top-secret Soviet biological weapons research plant. Russia’s main health watchdog has said that a second coronavirus vaccine will be completed in September and that 57 volunteers used as human guinea-pigs reported no side-effects New Jab Developed At Top-Secret Biological Weapons Plant ‘Avoids side-effects of first one’ Russia says a second coronavirus (Covid-19) vaccine is on its way, which ‘avoids the side-effects of the first one’. Earlier this month, the Russian president, Vladimir…

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The Director General, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), Dr Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, has said that an empty 40ft container has again claimed two lives in an accident at Ijesha area of Lagos State. Dr Oke-Osanyintolu made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos on Saturday. He said that the LASEMA management received a distress call on its emergency toll free line at about 9:44 pm. on Friday and activated a response team to the incident scene at Odo Olowu bus-stop at Ijesha. According…

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Simeon By Paulinus Nsirim Today, the body of late Mr. Simeon Nwakaudu, Senior Special Assistant on Electronic Media to the Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, will be laid to rest. There is no doubt that his kinsmen at Umuanya Ogbodikwu, in Umuahia South LGA of Abia State will be full of grief that such an illustrious son was cut down in his prime. As tears will flow from family, friends, well wishers and professional colleagues, the life and times of a man who bestrode the media like a…

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Former President of the federal republic of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo has said he wished to live beyond 100 so as to have more opportunities to celebrate with the Agura of Gbagura, Oba Sabur Bakare, Jamolu II. The former number one citizen of Africa’s most populous country was part of the dignitaries present at the first anniversary of the monarch, which held in his hometown of Abeokuta in Ogun State South-west Nigeria. The event took place on Tuesday. It would be recalled the Oba Bakare received the staff of office from…

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Dr Jide Onyekwelu, the Anambra State chairman of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), has said the NMA has so far lost a total of 14 medical doctors in Nigeria to the dreaded coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Dr Onyekwelu disclosed this at the ceremony to commence the training of 25 medical doctors on COVID-19 infection prevention and control techniques, held at Golden Tulip Agulu Lake Hotel, Anambra State, on Tuesday. He said as of August 6, 2020, about 1,027 doctors had been exposed, 319 cases had been confirmed, 63 recovered and 14…

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One Mr John Otema, a 34-year-old man and graduate of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) has been sentenced to 50 years imprisonment by an Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court. He rapped a 19-year-old student of UNILAG on campus. He was charged before Justice Abiola Soladoye with three counts of rape and assault occasioning harm on two female students. The culprit, who is quantity surveyor and facilities manager was found guilty on two-counts of rape and assault occasioning harm in respect of the rape of the 19-year-old student (Student…

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Reports reaching us has it that Upper Shari’a Court in Kano State has sentenced a 22-year-old singer to death by hanging for allegedly blaspheming Prophet Muhammad in a song. The Presiding Judge, Khadi Aliyu Muhammad Kani, gave the judgement after finding Yahaya Sharif-Aminu guilty as charged. Sharif-Aminu, a resident of Sharifai in Kano metropolis, was accused of committing blasphemy against the Prophet in a song he circulated via WhatsApp in March 2020. After the incident, protesters burned down the singer’s family home and led a procession to the Kano Hisbah…

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