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Music Mogul Dr Dre hospitalized after suffering brain aneurysm

Nnenna Okoronkwo
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American rapper Dr Dre has been hospitalized after suffering a brain aneurysm.

According to a report, the music mogul was hospitalized on Monday, January 4, 2020.

However, on Tuesday, he was in stable condition at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in the United States of America.

In the early hours of Wednesday, January 6, the rapper took to his Instagram page where he revealed that he was doing fine.

“Thanks to my family, friends, and fans for their interest and well wishes. I’m doing great and getting excellent care from my medical team. I will be out of the hospital and back home soon. Shout out to all the great medical professionals at Cedars. One Love!!” he wrote.

Dre’s ailment is coming on the heels of a bitter divorce battle with estranged wife, Nicole Young.

Nicole filed for divorce from the millionaire rapper back in 2020.

She cited irreconcilable differences as the reason for her split from the hip-hop mogul.

The couple got married in 1996 and are blessed with two adult children, Triuce and Truly.

Young was formerly married to NBA player, Sedale Threatt, and is a trained lawyer.

 

European drugs authority meets again over COVID-19 vaccine

Lantana Nasir
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The European Medicines Authority (EMA) is in a meeting  to decide on whether to approve Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine after failing to reach a decision earlier this week.

“The meeting of EMA’s human medicines committee (CHMP) to discuss COVID-19 vaccine Moderna has started,” the regulator said in a tweet.

The CHMP called an unscheduled meeting on Monday to discuss Moderna’s vaccine but failed to reach a conclusion.

The medicines authority did not specify at the time why it could not approve the vaccine, but on Tuesday said its experts were “working hard to clarify outstanding issues with the company”.

The Dutch national medicines authority said  it was preparing for both a positive decision on Wednesday and for a scenario in which a conclusion still could not be reached.

The EMA has set a Jan. 12 deadline for whether to recommend Moderna’s vaccine.

It recommended a COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech on Dec. 21.

A positive decision would mark the second regulatory authorisation for Moderna’s vaccine after the United States and further validation of its messenger RNA technology, just over a year since the first outbreak of the virus was identified in Wuhan, China.

It was about 95% effective at preventing illness in clinical trials that found no serious safety issues.

Since its rollout in the European Union began a week ago, hundreds of thousands of Europeans have received the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.

More than a million shots have been distributed in Britain in just under a month, and the uneven start of the campaign has led to criticism of health authorities in Germany and France, among others.

The Netherlands on Wednesday start vaccinations, giving its first injection to a 39-year old care home nurse.

WikiLeaks founder, Assange denied bail

Bilkisu Halilu Pai
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WikiLeaks’ founder, Julian Assange has been  denied bail by a British court on Wednesday .

Judge Vanessa Baraitser, while passing the judgement said “I am satisfied that there are substantial grounds for believing that if Mr Assange is released today he would fail to surrender to court to face the appeal proceedings.”

The Court had ruled on Monday that Assange would not be extradited to the United States saying that his mental health problem exposed him to the risk of suicide.

The US authorities accuse Assange of 18 offences relating to the release of confidential US military records and diplomatic cables by WikiLeaks which they claim endangers the lives of many.

Pakistani Supreme court orders rebuilding of destroyed Hindu temple

Bilkisu Halilu Pai
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Pakistan’s Supreme Court has ordered the rebuilding of a Hindu temple, the Shri Paramhans Ji Maharaj Samadhi temple that was badly damaged by an angry mob near the northwestern town of Karak last week.

During a hearing in the capital Islamabad on Tuesday, Chief Justice Gulzar Ahmed ordered that the temple be rebuilt by the government and that expenses be charged to a local Muslim leader who was allegedly responsible for the mob violence that led to the damage.

On December 30, hundreds of protesters, riled by local religious leaders, marched on the temple in the remote village of Teri, located in Karak district, about 85km (53 miles) south of the provincial capital Peshawar.

They broke the temple down with pickaxes and set fire to parts of it, footage of the incident showed.

The incident appeared to have been incited by plans to expand the premises of the temple, which was built in 1920 and had been reopened under court orders in 2015, after more than 10 years of being shut down.

Pakistan is home to an estimated 3.5 million Hindus, who form a 1.6 percent minority of the country’s 207 million population, as per government figures.

Violence against the community often centres around the country’s strict, and heavily emotive, blasphemy laws, and attacks on temples while not common, have been increasing in frequency in recent years.

Following the attack in Karak district, police arrested more than 100 suspects believed to have been part of the mob that attacked the temple and suspended many police personnel for alleged dereliction of duty for not stopping the attack.

 

‘Omo Ghetto’ leads top 10 Nollywood films of 2020

Nnenna Okoronkwo
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When the Omo Ghetto came to town it had all the trapping of something special. From the premiere to its tour of cinemas it was a financial tsunami that swept all box office records in its wake.

In its first weekend, the movie by Funke Akindele made a whopping N89 million. It was a record second to none in Nigeria in 2020 regardless of its release date which was December 25, 2020.

By the first of January, the film has amassed over N187 million at the box office. Next in line to Omo Ghetto is Fate of Alakada which came a distant second raking in N113 million and it was released two months away before Funke Akindele money-spinner.

On the third spot is Rattlesnake. The picture tells the story of the remaining 8 that made the list of top 10 Nollywood of 2020, according to statistics made available by Film One Entertainment.

France to kill 600,000 poultry to Stem Bird Flu

Mosunmola Ore
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France plans to slaughter 600,000 birds in an effort to prevent the spread of the avian influenza infecting duck flocks in part of the country.

Nearly 200,000 poultry birds have already been culled, a farm ministry official said, in a bid to contain the H5N8 virus, which is not known to be transmissible to humans.

As of Jan. 1, France had confirmed 61 bird flu outbreaks. Forty-eight of them were in the southwestern Landes region, according to the farm ministry.

The culling includes the preventive killing of birds in areas surrounding the outbreak to limit transition to farm flocks.

DSS cautions against fake recruitment exercise

Nnenna Okoronkwo
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The Department of State Services (DSS) has cautioned the general public against fake recruitment exercises adding that it is not currently carrying out any recruitment exercise.

The Public Relation Officer Peter Afunanya who stated this noted that it has become necessary to make the clarification in view of desperate efforts by fraudsters to scam unsuspecting job seekers or their sponsors.

Mr. Afunanya urged the public to note that recruitment into the Service is never done on a monetary basis.  “Instead, it is guided by merit and transparency. Beneficiaries undergo a series of screening and vetting processes and procedures through which only the best, produced by these, is taken”.

READ ALSO: EFCC, DSS partner to fight corruption, graft in Nigeria

The Department of State Services (DSS) therefore warned members of the public to be mindful of attempts by fraudulent persons and /groups to fleece them of their hard-earned money.  “They should rather report to the Service any suspicion in this regard”. 

“Those engaged in misleading acts of raising false recruitment alerts or defrauding others are warned to desist from such or be ready to face the music.  So far, the Service is sustaining efforts on clamping down on the activities of fake job syndicates illegally using its name to deceive and scam the public,” Afunanya added.

 

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Bird Flu: France to cull 600,000 poultry

Lantana Nasir
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France is to cull around 600,000 poultry birds as it tries to contain an avian influenza virus that is spreading among duck flocks in the southwest of the country, the farm ministry has said.

France is among European countries to have reported highly contagious strains of bird flu late last year, leading to mass culls as authorities try to limit transmission from wild birds to farm flocks.

France has already slaughtered around 200,000 poultry and plans to cull a further 400,000 birds, a farm ministry official said.

The culls include flocks where outbreaks occurred, as well as preventive slaughtering of birds in surrounding areas.

As of Jan. 1, France had confirmed 61 outbreaks of the H5N8 virus, of which 48 were in the southwestern Landes region, the farm ministry said in an earlier website update.

The Landes is part of a duck breeding zone that supplies the foie gras industry.

In other regions, the spread of the virus appeared to be under control, the ministry added.

The H5N8 strain of bird flu is not known to be transmissible to human.

Veteran yoruba actress Orisabunmi dies at 60

Nnenna Okoronkwo
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Popular Yoruba actress, Mrs Folake Aremu, popularly known as Orisabunmi is dead.

The veteran actress, a native of Olla in Kwara State, died at age 60 at her residence in Ibadan, Oyo State. She was said to have died after a brief illness.

Born on October 10, 1960, in Ilu Ola, Kwara State, Orisabunmi went to Ilu Ola Primary School and Secondary Commercial College.

Prince Jide Kosoko, who confirmed her death to The PUNCH on Wednesday, expressed grief and prayed to God for the repose of her soul.

Kosoko, who described her death as a terrible blow to the Nigerian theatre industry, also prayed for God to comfort her family members and her loved ones.

He said, “No doubt, Folake was a thoroughbred actress. She was an amazon in the industry and we respected and valued her for her contribution. She gave her all to her career and she was recognized for her worth.”

The President of the Theatre Arts and Motion Pictures Practitioners Association of Nigeria, Bolaji Amusan, popularly called Baba Latin, said Orisabunmi died late Tuesday night.

Her death came months after the demise of her former husband, Jimoh Aliu, popularly called Aworo, under whose tutelage she rose to prominence in the film industry.

Aremu was well known since the 80s for her roles as a priestess, pacifist, and the good witch in movies.

AFAN to adopt policies to support all-year-round farming

Mosunmola Ore
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The All Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN), has called for the adoption of policies that would support all-year-round farming to mitigate hunger and malnutrition in the country.

AFAN’s National President, Mr Kabri Ibrahim, made the call in an interview with newsmen in Lagos on Tuesday saying that all-year-round farming would enable the country feed its growing population.

He said that the country would overcome issues relating to food scarcity, insufficiency and insecurity by embracing all-year-round farming.

The president who observed that the present seasonal farming was old fashioned stressed the need for sustained food production to feed the nation.

Ibrahim said that the country needed to move away from the traditional rain-fed practice to all-year-farming, adding that it would aid food security.

“Nigeria can mitigate issues related to food scarcity by practising agriculture all year round and not the dependence on rainfall that dominates the practice now.

“When you do all-year-round agriculture, you don’t have any gaps and this is what happens in some of the countries that have food security.

Ibrahim said that farmers can concentrate on crops that thrives more during the harmattan and vis-a-vis the rainy season.

He called for the adoption of long-term strategies, new method and policies among the stakeholders in the private and public sector to achieve the goal.

Ibrahim listed some of the challenges mitigating all-year-round farming to include policy inconsistency, funding, poor irrigation system and lack of political will.

He also said that poor water management system posed a great threat to farming all year round.

He urged the Federal Government to improve irrigation systems, encourage mechanised farming as well as create access roads in order to increase food production and security in the country.

 

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