The first democratically elected president of the Maldives resigned on Tuesday and was replaced by his vice president after the police and army clashed in the streets of the island nation amid protests over the arrest of a top judge.Mohammed Waheed Hassan, who previously worked as a top UNICEF official, was sworn in as the new Maldivian president in the afternoon. Soon after, the judge was released.
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The Leader of the Senate, Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba, has described the death of former Minister for Foreign Affairs, Ambassador M.T Mbu, as a personal loss.Ndoma-Egba, in a press release personally signed by him today, said that inspite of the fact that the late Mbu passed away at the ripe age of 82, “that he died at a time Nigeria is at a crossroads, when his insight, experience, political and diplomatic skills would have been most needed, is confounding and sad.”
More information has come in on the death of renowned Economist, Prof. Sam Aluko.Aluko was said to have died at a private hospital in Newscastle, United Kingdom.His wife was said to have been with him when he died.
Three new Ambassadors presented their letters of credence to President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan at State House on Tuesday.The new ambassadors are Mr. Jacques Champagne, Ambassador of France; Mr. Montaser F. A. Abuzaid, Ambassador of the State of Palestine; and Mr. Mostafa Bouh, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Morocco.
A 20,000 gallons per day Solar Water project built by the Niger Delta Development Commission for Kaiama Community, Bayelsa State has been commissioned, just as the commission has promised to transform the National Youth Service Corps Camp in Kaiama into a permanent site.Kaiama is the birth place of frontline Niger Delta Activist, late Isaac Adaka Boro.The NDDC Board Chairman, Dr. Tarilah Tebepah, who commissioned the water project, told the people at a civic reception in his honour later that the commission was determined to intervene in the needs of the people in line with the Regional Development Master Plan.
The Supreme Court has reserved ruling in the case brought before it by a former Governor of Bayelsa State, Chief Timipre Sylva, for April 20, 2012 in the suit seeking to determine who is the rightful candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the state’s gubernatorial election.Sylva had approached the court for the determination of who the candidate of the PDP should be after the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Attahiru Jega, announced guidelines that effectively barred him from the election.
A suicide bombing attempt has reportedly failed in Kaduna.The suicide bombing attempt failed at the 1 Division of the Nigerian Army, Kawo, Kaduna.However, the bomb still went off, sending those nearby scampering for safety and those around the barracks into fear.The explosion was described as “large” by someone close to the scene of the blast.
The Ghana Trades Union Congress has called of its intended strike, which was originally scheduled for February 9, 2012.According to a report on Ghana Web, the TUC said it decided to call off the strike as a result of government’s decision to reduce petroleum prices by 20 per cent for petrol, diesel and LPG.The TUC in a statement signed by its Secretary General said it arrived at the decision after an emergency Steering Committee meeting.Below is the full statement:
Renowned professor of Economics, Prof. Sam Aluko, is dead. Aluko died this morning in the United Kingdom. He was aged 83.
Josh Powell’s boys were coming for a visit, and he had preparations to make.He boxed up their books and toys and took them to a charity. He carried heavy cans of gasoline inside his house and set aside a hatchet.He thought about what to write in the final emails he’d send out: where people could find his financial accounts, how they could shut off his utilities. He didn’t mention his wife, Susan Powell, missing for the past two years.When the boys finally arrived in a car driven by a social worker Sunday, everything was ready to go. They ran inside…
The terrorist attack on the World Trade Center took the lives of 23 NYPD officers who responded to the scene that day. In the decade since though, the number of cops that have died from cancer is more than double that number, and the link, experts say, is astounding. Before the 9/11 tragedy, an average of six NYPD cops filed claims for cancer-related disability each year. Around 12,000 men and women were dispatched to Ground Zero on September 11, and a decade down the road, the number of annual cancer claims has nearly tripled. Today there around…
Men who smoke experience greater mental declines over time than men who never smoked, but the same link does not appear among women, said a British study published in the United States. The research suggested that the effects of long-term cigarette smoking show up terms of memory loss, inability to connect past experience with actions in the present, and a drop in overall cognition skills. The study in the Archives of General Psychiatry followed more than 5000 men and 2100 women in the British civil service. Research subjects entered the study at an average age of 56…
Diabetes is associated with hearing loss in women, especially if the blood sugar disease isn’t well-controlled, new research indicates. The study, done by researchers at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, examined the medical records of 990 men and women who had hearing tests between 2000 and 2008. Patients with diabetes were divided into two groups: well-controlled and poorly controlled. Among women aged 60 to 75, hearing loss was 14 per cent worse even in well-controlled diabetics compared to those without diabetes.
Following her brief stint in the hospital last month, Demi Moore is now in rehab, according to E! News. The 49-year-old actress reportedly entered Cirque Lodge addiction treatment center in Utah the week after her January 23 hospitalisation in California. Moore reportedly is receiving treatment for what E! News describes as “an eating disorder and addiction issues.” A source said, “She’s on total lockdown and only talking to a small group of people.” After Moore was hospitalized, her rep said the actress was seeking treatment for exhaustion. However, a recording of the 911 call placed before Moore was taken to…
The young sons of Susan and Josh Powell, who died with their father when he ignited an explosion in their Washington home, were beginning to verbalize that their mother was in the trunk of their father’s car on the night that she disappeared in 2009, a lawyer for the missing woman’s parents said. Attorney Steve Downing told the Associated Press that Braden and Charles Powell, who were 2 and 4 at the time of Susan Powell’s disappearance, were beginning to tell their grandparents details about the night that their father took them on a late-night camping trip…
Some eminent Nigerians have prescribed the convening of a Sovereign National Conference as the only way to ensure that Nigeria continues to exist as one entity, the Premium Times reported late on Monday. At a forum organised in Lagos by the National Summit Group, Monday, participants were unanimous that a sovereign national conference – where the almost 500 ethnic groups and languages will sit down and discuss the terms of existence in Nigeria – is the way out of the current political and economic impasse.
More than 50 rouge oil bunkering gangs ravaging the Cawthone Channel, between Rivers and Bayelsa states, known as the Nembe Creek Trunkline, have so far wasted 4.8 million barrels of Nigeria’s oil, about double the nation’s two days production capacity, by stealing and spillage arising from theft. The value of this volume of crude is about $480 million, going by Monday’s crude oil price of $100 per barrel. This, along with renewed bomb attacks on the nation’s oil installations, by disgruntled splinter elements of the ethnic militia group, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta…
A Nigerian drug courier was arraigned at a Scotland court on Monday after he was found to have four bags of cocaine pellets, weighing almost 1.5 kilos in total, hidden in his jacket and socks. Cletus Okpala was caught with a haul of high purity cocaine worth almost £500,000 on the streets as police targeted suspected high ranking members of an organised crime gang. Okpala told officers he did not know he had the Class A drug in his possession and even denied knowing what cocaine was.
Young children are much more likely than adults to have adverse drug reactions, so giving your preschooler prescription or over-the-counter (OTC) medication – even “herbal” medicines – is serious business. Here are some medicines you should never give your 2- to 4-year-old. Aspirin Never give your child aspirin or any medication containing aspirin unless instructed to do so by your child’s doctor. Aspirin can make a child susceptible to Reye’s syndrome – a rare but potentially fatal illness. Read labels carefully (aspirin is sometimes referred to as “salicylate” or “acetylsalicylic acid”), and ask your doctor or pharmacist…
Members of the dreaded sect, Islamist militants of the Jama’atu Ahli Sunna lid Da’awati wal Jihad, popularly known as Boko Haram, struck again in Kano today, with casualty figures still unknown as at press time. This time around, it was at a police station in Sharada, on the outskirts of the town. Sharada is located in the Kano Industrial Area. Sources said that the members of the sect attacked the police station with bombs and guns.