Aid agencies have distributed a strawberry-flavoured tablet for children living with HIV in six African countries, the first generic pediatric version of a key anti-retroviral, global health agency UNITAID said on Sunday. (Reuters/NAN)
The Central Working Committee (CWC) of the Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria has endorsed the appointment of Auwal Kiyawa as the new Acting Secretary-General of the union.
He replaces Mr Silas Adamu as MHWUN Secretary-General, who died in a motor accident along Abuja- Kaduna Expressway, on the 8 of March 2021.
The CWC also passed a vote of confidence on its National President, HRM Biobelemoye Josiah to remain in Office until 2023, following his election as the first-class King of Opu-Nembe, in Bayelsa State.
President of the MHWUN and king of Opu-Nembe, in Bayelsa State, HRM Josiah, together with some Union executives, presented the new acting secretary-general to members of staff of at MHWUN headquarters in Abuja.
The MHWUN president charged the administrative staff not to hoard any information from the incoming acting Secretary-General, to enable him quickly understand the workings of his new office.
He admonished them to render the same support they extended to late Adamu to the new Acting Secretary-General, to perform his duties optimally.
Biobelemoye recalled the relentless commitment of the Late MHWU Secretary-General Adamu and charged the new Acting Secretary-General to ensure bureaucracy is seamless in memory of his predecessor.
In his response, the new acting secretary-general appreciated the support and role of his zone – North-West in his appointment and promised to uphold the dignity of his new office.
Kiyawa said although he is not new to the challenges of his new office, he called for support from the staff of MHWU headquarters and his North-west Zone in order not to fail in his new task as well as the confidence reposed in him.
Until his appointment, which is for a period of six months in the first instance, Kiyawa was the Kano state secretary of MHWUN and North-west Zonal Secretary.
The prevalence of self-medication from several Nigerian studies ranges between 60-90%.
There is a high incidence of self-medication with ‘over the counter’ (OTC) and prescription medicines ranging from 15.0 to 81.5% in different localities.
Nigeria is among the developing countries of the world, where drugs are freely displayed for sale in unauthorised places such as markets, shops, roadside stalls, motor parks, and other public places by individuals not duly licensed.
While some benefits may come with self-medication, the dangers far outweigh the merits.
Below are five dangers associated with self-medication:
The END Fund, a private philanthropic initiative dedicated to ending the five most common neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), has partnered IHS Nigeria, a leading telecoms infrastructure service provider company, to tackle prevalent neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) in Ekiti State.
The END Fund recently announced its partnership with IHS Nigeria during its multi-stakeholder webinar hosted under the aegis of its African NTD (neglected tropical diseases) Leadership Initiative.
The event was supported by many critical stakeholders who are committed to building and expanding a sustainable and locally driven movement to end NTDs on the continent.
A planned donation from IHS Nigeria, which will support Nigeria’s startegic plan to effectively tackle neglected endemic diseases, will enable the END Fund to deliver treatments to thousands of those most affected by onchocerciasis, lymphatic filariasis, schistosomiasis and soil transmitted helminthiasis; reducing the suffering, disability and poor health caused by these diseases, and significantly improving the quality of life of the recipients.
“The END Fund is delighted to collaborate with IHS Nigeria in tackling these diseases that cause cognitive impairment, physical ailments, social isolation, and economic regression. Through the financial commitment of this partner, we will make good strides in reducing the burden for these diseases in Ekiti state.
“This is in support of the state government’s drive to enable a healthier populace, and also feeds into the national framework for supporting the sustainable progress of Nigeria, especially in the areas of health and economic advancement. In addition, tackling the NTDs is correlated to attainment of UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3 on good health and wellbeing; while contributing to meeting other SDGs, including SDGs 1 and 2 – alleviating poverty and hunger, and SDG 4 – enabling people to pursue an education,” said Oyetola Oduyemi, director, Public Affairs, END Fund.
Announcing the partnership between the END Fund and IHS Nigeria, Chief Corporate Services Officer, IHS Nigeria, Dapo Otunla, said his organisation is thrilled with the prospect of helping to lessen the burden of endemic diseases in Ekiti State.
“Today, we are pleased to take this significant step in collaborating with the END Fund to tackle these debilitating diseases. Our robust programme in Ekiti State involves funding preventive treatment for endemic NTDs, supporting the effective deployment of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) measures, and working to end open defecation and its detrimental impact on the people of the state – including the contribution of this unhealthy practice to the state’s NTD burden.
“As a business, we have invested in improving WASH practices across Nigeria in which thousands of households across the country have been impacted so much so that last year, the Vice President, through the Minister of Water Resources, awarded our Nigeria CEO, Mohamad Darwish a WASH Ambassador status under the Clean Nigeria Campaign. We know that addressing NTDs is only a logical step in the right direction and this will enable our impact to go further,” Otunla said.
According to the World Health Organisation, more than 134 million Nigerians require treatment for one or more NTDs, with 48 million children and adults affected by intestinal worms, and 25 million people affected by schistosomiasis – in terms of impact this disease is the world’s second most devastating parasitic ailment after malaria. The country bears approximately 40 per cent of Africa’s NTD burden.
The END Fund has been a key partner for the national framework for tackling NTDs, and continues to support the country’s plans to eliminate endemic NTDs.
To achieve this goal, a multi-stakeholder engagement strategy is crucial – with the private sector playing a fundamental role.
The partnership with IHS Nigeria is supporting the safe delivery of life-changing treatments to affected communities in Ekiti.
The St. Raphael Divine Mercy Specialist Hospital (SRDMSH) has reaffirmed its commitment to medical excellence.
The hospital stated this at its 10th Anniversay, when an ultra-modern intensive care unit and orthopaedic theatre with C-arm were inaugurated.
Founded by Anthony Cardinal Olubunmi Okogie, SRDMSH aims to cater for the poor around the suburbs of Ikorodu.
The event held recently at the hospital’s premises at Ijede, Ikorodu, Lagos.
Okogie said SRDMSH’s commitment to excellence has resulted in many accomplishments over the past 10 years.
“It will interest you to know that there was only one primary health centre in Ikorodu at the time. The place was like a satellite town. The poor ones living around then would come all the way to the heart of Lagos to receive medical attention. More so, there was a need for a good/major hospital owned and operated by the Archdiocese of Lagos.
“So, we decided to build the hospital to close this gap in Ikorodu. Among our intentions for the hospital, profit-making was not considered a factor. More so, there are so many modern-day hospitals in these other places. Ikorodu had no good medical facility,” the retired senior cleric said.
Despite the hospital’s achievement, Okogie is not pleased. “I recognise that the hospital is still evolving. With the recent acquisition of some state-of-the-art facilities and engagement of specialist qualified personnel, I would measure the hospital’s improvement to about 40 per cent from where they used to be.But, coming from that turbulent history, I am glad that today, the hospital has better facilities, more qualitative personnel, etc. We believe the hospital will gain more grounds in the next 10 years,” he added.
The Catholic Archbishop of Lagos, Most Revd Alfred Adewale Martins noted that the upgrade of the facility met with the commitment of the hospital management to raise the service delivery capacity of missionary hospitals to international standards to save lives of the people, adding that the project will complement the effort of the hardworking and dedicated personnel in the hospital to save more lives.
Revd. Martins, however, urged the management to keep seeking for well-trained medical personnel who are knowledgeable in modern medical practices and also be mindful of the impact they make in the lives of poor and frail patients.
The HOPE Consortium, a United Arab Emirates-based public-private partnership supporting the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines across the globe, has vowed that it will continue to work to lessen vaccine distribution challenges so that everybody is vaccinated.
The consortium reaffirmed its commitment during a virtual road show of how it is enabling global vaccine distribution.
Spearheaded by the Department of Health – Abu Dhabi, the Hope Consortium comprises a range of supply chain companies, including Abu Dhabi Ports, as lead partner, Etihad Cargo and Rafed, as well as Switzerland’s SkyCell.
The virtual roadshow was attended by Dr. Omar Najim, Executive Office Director at the Department of Health of Abu Dhabi, Bader Al Ali, Senior Manager Commercial, Etihad Cargo, Robert Sutton, Head of the Logistics Cluster, Abu Dhabi Ports, and other leaders of the consortium.
HOPE consortium is enabling the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines all around the world, including the African content, through the expertise of its dedicated workforce and resources of partners. When the pandemic hit the world like a storm in early 2020, the global spotlight has been placed on the pharmaceutical sector.
“During the past 12 months, leading pharma manufacturers have accelerated the pharma production and distribution of their respective vaccines across the globe to address the global pandemic. In fact, according to the Bloomberg, more than 2.3 billion doses have been administered across 178 countries.
“Existing cold chain solutions will not only have to rise to the challenge, but also to enhance, cater (for) all the increased capacity requirement that would accommodate the specific temperature control restrictions specific to each vaccine. Our strategic positioning means we are able to reach more than 3.6 billion across the Middle East, Africa and Asia.
“We have utilised, our expertise not only to enhance our own operations, but we have worked closely with our partners over the past month to facilitate supply chain – right from the manufacturer to the patients. The challenge of supporting global efforts to provide billions of people access to these vaccines around the world, has it presented us with additional opportunities to further cooperate with our partners.
“In addition to our support to the UAE government, our dedicated COVID-19 workforce, the founding of the HOPE Consortium with our partners here, in UAE, we have also partnered with UNICEF to aid the worldwide distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, the medicines, the devices and other supplies to respond to vendors. To facilitate their shipments and find the best-in-class solutions to ensure protection and integrity is maintained across the whole supply chain down to the patient. The challenge of supporting global enough force to provide billions of people access of these vaccines around the world, has it presented us with additional opportunities to further collaborate,” HOPE Consortium said.
Authorities and the public in Nigeria have been urged to move away from criminalising suicide and start building an empathetic and care-based framework to deal with the problem of suicide.
Experts, who stressed the need for Nigerians to begin to see suicide as a health issue rather than a criminal act, spoke during the virtual launch of a book on guidelines for media reporting of suicide in Nigeria.
The book, entitled: “The Morning After,” espoused that responsible media reports on suicide can mitigate the rising cases.
The book launch, which featured over 120 participants from various sectors, was organised by Nous Foundation Nigeria, in partnership with the Health Writers Association of Nigeria (HEWAN).
The book was acknowledged as a veritable tool for guiding health reporters and informing and educating the public about suicide in Nigeria. Reviewing the book, Dr. Femi Olugbile, former Permanent Secretary in the Lagos State Ministry of Health, said concerns are more on the mainstream media and citizen reporters on how they report issues surrounding suicide without consideration on the implications to the families and society.
Olugbile, a psychiatrist, observed that media reports are often done without sympathy for the parties concerned who are always severely traumatised by the incident when reported in the news media.
The nine-chapter book, which deals with suicide and its attempts as a medical condition, explains that the vast majority of people who have committed suicide have a diagnosable psychiatric error.
Explaining that the book also touches on matters of the law, which recognises suicide as a criminal offence rather than a medical condition, Olugbile said it is wrong for unsuccessful suicide attempts to be handed over to the police and immediately charged to the magistrate court for a criminal offence.
One of the authors, Dr. Olufemi Oluwatayo said the book is a reflection on how the media report suicide cases in the country, without considering the immediate and long-term effect on the family of the deceased and the economy.
Oluwatayo lamented that while international communities have policy data on suicide, Nigeria is yet to develop one, adding that one of the ways data was gathered in the book was through interviews with families of suicide victims. As for Martins Ifijeh, co-author, the book was written to bring to the fore the WHO guidelines for suicide reporting, which he said journalists have not explored enough in their reporting of suicide cases in Nigeria.
The guidelines were developed for journalists not to fuel suicide in their reporting of suicides, he said. The second reason for writing the book is for the obsolete mental law in Nigeria, which criminalised suicide, to undergo a long overdue amendment because suicide is a health issue that should be reported from the health angle rather than reporting from the police angle.
In his submission, former Chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Lanre Tejuosho, said the book will serve as a useful guide in amending the Mental Health Bill, which has spent years in the National Assembly without seeing the light of the day.
He described the 264 victims of suicide as a fraction of the actual number of underreported cases of Nigerians who committed suicide in the last four years.
As for the President of HEWAN, Chioma Obinna, reporters should play a critical role in educating the public on mental illness issues, but lamented that lack of training on effective reportage of suicide has remained a handicap.
“When suicide is inappropriately reported, it fuels stigma. From the book, we have been made to understand that when you use the word ‘commit’ it is tagging suicide as a crime and not a health condition,” she said.
“What matter has TWITTER matter got to do with health matter?” Better Effiong Happiness, the 14-year-old girl who types article for this page, asked, playing with words, when I announced the subject. To this question, my reply is: “Twitter matter becomes health matter when 14th century thought and actions ruin 21st century life patterns, disturbing the mind and head, and causing all sorts of illnesses which would, otherwise, be in their sheaths. Didn’t our fore-fathers experience things like this, when they said: TI A BA N GUN ‘YAN NI INU ODO,TI A N SE ‘BE NI INU EEPO EPA, ENI MAA YO A YO (If we pound yam in a mortar, if we cook soup in a groundnut shell, whosever will have a full stomach will have it)!
The Twitter question should be interesting to anyone who strives to live in the PRESENT. I visited this subject in a number of posts on Facebook which I will share in this series.
Nigeria and Twitter (1)
WITH four of Nigeria’s six political regions agitated, and the fifth managing to keep calm, the Federal Government must be extremely nervous. Nervousness is one or few steps away from anger and misplaced aggression. Anger exposes absence of clarity, a few steps from fear. Anger stems from fear of inadequacy, causes hatred, precursor of anything, including murder. Anger severs all links with reason. President Muhammadu Buhari has been angry with the Southeast region since the election of 2015 in which the voters massively rejected him. He could not hold himself in public when once or twice he wrote the constituents off his bread and butter list. But he would seem persuaded to let sleeping dog lie when he accepted the second Niger Bridge and the West-East railway projects for which he went abroad to borrow money.
Nevertheless, the constituents are not persuaded the President loves them. They remember him as one of the Nigerian Army officers who quashed the Biafran dream of 1966-70 in which their grandparents died. They also remember their kinsmen were massively and brutally murdered in the North from where the President comes in a prelude to the war. So, we have been witnessing collisions of two quantum negative discharges. How will these annoyances be peacefully resolved?
They read President Buhari’s revulsion for the Igbo in his public appointments which they say marginalise the Southeast. The roll call of Army Generals who are likely to go because their Junior has become their boss is another example which justifies their claims. Before this, the President was sending troops of one operation or the other to quieten dissent in the Southeast and to frighten into submission this region that is well known for its ruggedness and resourcefulness.
Irrespective of the President Eastern policies, I do not think the President believes all Igbos are threats to Nigerian unity. But his fear and dislike of IPOD may have made him to bunch them all up. Constitutionally, there are Igbos in his cabinet who should speak for their people. Even if he had a revulsion for the Igbo, wouldn’t it have paid him better to pretend he doesn’t while he sorts out problems in all Nigeria’s agitated political zones? Whoever wins multiple wars at the same time? Otto von Bismark, the Iron Chancellor, negotiated French neutrality before, through war, he pulled out Germany from the Austro-Hungerian Empire. French Emperor Bonaparte Napoleon and German Adolf Hitler lost several wars because they took on many opponents at the same time. If some Northern generals and troops are Boko Haram sup- porters, if some generals and troops are pro-banditry, how will President Buhari get Southeastern Generals and troops to match in the Southeast or to help him in the Northeast,
Northeest and Northcentral? I believe, as some people have said, that the President may not have seen the war-threaten- ing TWIT before it was posted in TWITTER. He is an aging and busy man, who may entrust many matters to his trusted aides who, may not have been clearing routine matters with him. And once the feathers flew, he would be obliged to pro- tect them. President Buhari is not known to sacrifice his aberrant staff. He would rather do house management. We have seen many public officers, including a former Finance Minis- ter, stay in office longer than when they should have been shown the door. So, if President Buhari didn’t read the TWIT before it was published, he would pretend he did, and take responsibility as a “gentleman officer”. I was a young journalist when I was told a similar thing happened in the govern- ment of General Yakubu Gowon. Defence Headquarters was too close to, I believe, the American and British embassies. The government encouraged them to move, but they would not. General Gowon would appear to be too soft. So, one day the radical Muritala Muhammed and Olusegun Obasanjo, who would later edge him out, surrounded the diplomatic neighbourhood with troops to enforce the movement, against dip- lomatic norm. Would General Gowon disown his own boys?
Silent war
The reaction of the government in suspending or banning TWITTER activities is an indicator that a silent war is going on in Nigeria. There is a ricochetting rumour that the Presi- dent has passed, and that a decoy of him has been put in Aso Rock by people who hijacked power from him. Recently, I was an odd-person-out in a discussion group. I reminded the other people that the President has been travelling abroad to meet with government functionalists and that the media of those countries would have been too glad to report that Ni- geria had a Dummy Leader if this rumour was correct. This persuaded some people to change their opinion. Some of Presi- dent Buhari’s aides are not helping matters about the fear of a quiet war going on in Nigeria, which has found a new peak in the TWITTER problem. The Attorney-General and Justice Min- ister recently made a provoking statement equating Igbo spare parts business in the North with Northern cattle rampaging food crop farms in the South. Former Borno Governor Shettima took it up from there in a video call interview with former Ogun State Governor Ibikunle Amosun. Shettima said the Igbos were lucky that Muhammadu Buhari became Presi- dent. He said Buhari was not the choice of the North for Presi- dent. The choice of the North was former Kano Governor Kwakwanso. Shettima said the Igbos were taking over the economy of the North and Kwakwanso was better positioned than Buhari to take the economy back from tbem and give it to Northerners. Then, he said this would be done after the
2023 polls. This is an indication that the hawks in the North and in President Buhari’s cabinet may have hijacked power, as Aisha Buhari claims. Is it not possible that the hawks planted the TWIT? The impression the TWITTER SUSPENSION or BAN had created is that a whole Federal Government cannot with- stand the President being humiliated while Nnamdi Kanu of IPOD is on his feet, laughing. General Gowon said there were bad advisers, but no bad leaders. Boot lickers may have misadvised the President to hammer TWITTER in a mood of self-preservation before their boss whose spirit must have been down. It is at such a time the President should have been closer to his wife, Aisha, a well educated, bright, much- younger and more-proactive person. It is not for nothing that she is his wife and mother of their children. When men are down and out while storming the mountains, it is from their wives they draw succour and energy to continue the battle. They are not given to us by our Creator to be mere decora- tions in our living rooms and bedmates in the other room. They are meant to be our worthy companions. They defend us to the hilt, even when we are aberrant, if we are good to them. All men should know this. WOMAN is psychically stronger than MAN, who is physically stronger. Spiritually speaking, the inner core or essence of WOMAN is finer and more sensitive than MAN’s. That makes WOMAN to easily connect with higher and final realms of existence for HIGHER GUIDANCE than MAN. In flowering plants, for example, aerial part are fragrant, fruity and bears flowers. The roots system which secure the plants is rugged and obtuse, like the body of MAN. That is why Wise People Of Old who discov- ered WOMAN to be a store house of strength for MAN tell us that BEHIND A SUCCESSFUL MAN, THERE IS A WOMAN.
Young people
Aisha may have told him TWITTER suspension would be one more battle the President is waging not on TWITTER or Nnamdi Kanu but on Nigeria’s young people, especially in the South. Nigeria’s liquid cash is evaporating. Governments and the private sector are sacking workers. Unemployment is growing. Young people are denouncing their country and fleeing abroad, saying it is better to be slaves over there, where they can get jobs to full their pockets and stomachs. Providentially, digital currency platforms brought succour to young Nigerians who stayed behind for love of country or for want of opportunity to escape from its stranglehood. Many of them no longer even cared for paid white collar jobs. They were legitimately making money undreamt of. But, suddenly, the government came to smash their dreams of financial free- dom in the guise of fighting terrorists and kidnappers who were using the same platforms to grow their businesses. I once asked if it was not better to regulate the business than to abolish it. Can we abolish the police or the armed forces sim- ply because they have some bad eggs?. In any case, haven’t we witnessed more school children kidnapping since the ban- ning of crypto currency business in the banks? Didn’t the kid- nappers negotiate and collect raw cash and even have some motorcycles bought for them to empower their vocation? Has the Boko Haram Army not been paying its soldiers since the crypto ban?
Aisha may also have told her husband how TWITTER is transforming the business lives of many young people. I am sure the President will soon discover the ban is a wasted ef- fort. Young people are irrepressible and, like water stopped from flowing in one direction, will soon find a new level and direction.
One of the lessons TWITTER may learn is that a building designed and constructed on a rocky foundation cannot be exhumed, transported and implanted on marshy land and expected to not sink. TWITTER may have deleted President Donald Trump in the United States without much ado because that country has solid public institutions to prevent or to absorb “tremors”. The African terrains is still largely one man show, irrespective of the mouthing of Democracy
The Igbo
The Igbo are right to exercise their free will for self-determination. Freedom from the neighbour is a gift the Almighty Creator gave to all creatures. We observe it well in babies. A baby may not like the cuddle of a certain adult. Human be- ings ignored this inalienable rights in the greedy quest for territorial expansion which brought together many disparate tribes of men in a single Nation state. From here, irreverent man trampling on the loss of nature which organised men into groups on the basis of their inner homogeneity conquered more territories to establish incongruous empires. These in- cluded the outdated Roman Empire, British Empire, Byzan- tine Empire, Ottoman Empire, Oyo Empire, Benin Empire, Songhai Empire etc. In modern times, the Russians established Soviet Empire which has crumbled. Nigeria was a member of the now defunct British Political Empire. If Nigeria exercised self-determination to free herself from the British Empire, why can constituent parts of Nigeria be not free to go their individual ways if they believe they can achieve their exis- tential objectives by doing so? If we do not split, we would have to learn to treat one another with mutual self respect as a husband and wife treats each other if they are not to sepa- rate or to divorce. In their presents predicament, the Igbos have many lessons to learn. They hated Chief Obafemi Awolowo because he did not allow them to govern the West- ern region after the Western region led the Nigerian Inde- pendence Campaign against Britain and won freedom for the whole country. Why would the Igbos want the Yoruba’s to replace a foreign colonial master with a local colonial master from the East of Nigeria when they have more competent sons and daughters who can govern them? All through the colonial constitutional conferences, Chief Awolowo fought for regionalism for which he was branded a tribalist because he did not want ethnic domination in Nigeria. After Independence, he asked Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, the Igbo Leader, to become Prime Minister while he, Awolowo, would be Fi- nance Minister under him, so they could give Nigeria a solid start up foundation against feudalism and nepotism. But Dr. Azikiwe preferred to be powerless or Ceremonial President and Tafawa Balewa, from the North, became Prime Minister, and the most powerful man in Nigeria. Irrespective of this, Chief Awolowo won through with a 1960, and 1963 constitu- tion which properly regionalised Nigeria so that one group would not dominate the others. A Northern and Eastern Federal coalition government conspired against the fast-devel- oping Western region and broke it into two parts after caus- ing a crisis in the ruling Action Group Party. This led to the crisis which caused the first military coup, Igbo killings in the North and the Biafran War. Major-General J.T.U. Aguyi Ironsi, an Igbo, who took over from the coupists abolished the regional constitution and imposed a unity constitution under which Igbos had unlimited access to all Federal opportunities after they and the Northerners had successfully pushed the Yoruba’s out of the civil services, armed forces and the police. This was why the West was militarily impotent at the outset of the Nigerian civil war, surrounded by Northern troops after the Igbos had withdrawn from all parts of the county to the East. The Ironsi unitary constitution opened the eyes of the North to how it could use constitutional power to legitimately conquer the entire country. That is what the South is still suffering from and which is causing agitation in the East. Somehow, because of the private sector economic advances which Chief Awolowo brought to the West, the Yorubas hardly agitate that they are left out of Nigeria at government level. The Igbo flowered at Federal Government level under Obasanjo, Yar Adua/Jonathan and Jonathan. Buhari became the Igbo headache because his government opened the door more to call Northerners, especially the Fulanis. Every part of the country is feeling the present pinch and would like more freedom than at present obtains. Again, the Igbos shut themselves in the foot under Obasanjo and Jonathan when they rejected regionalism and state police sim- ply because the Southern President who favoured them did not want more state power in the West which was again, as in pre-colonial times, pushing for regionalism and state police. We are all in it together, we can do it peacefully or violently. Violence will pay no one. The peace process will pay everyone. The United Nations has a Peace Process plan. Britain peace- fully pulled out of the EUROPEAN UNION. YUGOSLAVIA did it peacefully. SCOTLAND lost the self-determination battle against the United Kingdom by a few votes a few years ago. Britain rejoiced and conceded more freedom to loser SCOT- LAND. But Scotland is not done yet, it has launched another peaceful move for a separation from Britain in order for its people to remain an homogeneous people within its own boundaries as the Almighty Creator made us all. We can learn from this Peace Process rather than cause more blood to be shed in a country already overflown with blood since the 1960s.
My dream for Nigeria, if the various part stick together, is a country where the natural order of life is well respected. In this order, all tribes were created by God. Each tribe was led by him to its own territory where resources it would need to sustain itself had been specially prepared for it. No tribe will see itself as superior to others. All tribes will see them- selves as meant to grow according to the WILL of the Al- mighty Creator from child tribe to adult tribe so that, individuals in each tribe would be able to return to Paradise, our home as flowering and useful human spirits. The strong tribes will unconditionally help the weak. No tribe will withhold its resources from others who need them. But they would have to negotiate the terms of exchange which bring joy to all parties. Anything short of this will cause agitation.
In the race to meet up with day-to-day activities, people tend to not follow guidelines on diet about what to eat, how to eat and when to eat.
By disregarding healthy eating, the body misses out on a lot of benefits and gradually breaks down until it can no longer function properly.
Below are 10 benefits of healthy eating:
Defibrillators became the topic of conversation following the collapse of Denmark midfielder Christian Eriksen at Parken Stadium in Euro 2020 game against Finland on Saturday.
The incident involving Eriksen, who had suffered a cardiac arrest and needed emergency treatment, including cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) on the field, brought about the campaign for availability of defibrillators on the football pitch and public spaces.
Hours after Eriksen was resuscitated with the aid of a defibrillator, there were reports of a teenager who was arrested after two people were caught on closed-circuit television (CCTV) vandalising a defibrillator kit at Buxted football club (FC).
Buxted FC reportedly discovered the defibrillators had been tampered with in the early hours of Sunday morning.
A defibrillator, according to British Heart Foundation, is a device that gives a high energy electric shock to the heart of someone who is in cardiac arrest. This high energy shock is called defibrillation, and it’s an essential part in trying to save the life of someone who’s in cardiac arrest.
Here are things to know about defibrillators: