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A medical Doctor, Gbenga Adebusoye, says delay in changing children’s soiled diapers and napkins increases their risk of getting Urinary Tract Infection (UTI). Adebusoye, who disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), on Sunday in Jos, explained that bacteria and other infection causing microbes might enter the urinary tract when the dirty diaper or napkin was not changed in time, thereby causing UTI. He defined Urinary tract infection (UTI), as basically an infection along the urinary tract. He explained that the Urinary Tract was divided in to two ; the upper and lower urinary tract.…
Subscribers of telecommunications company, 9mobile, have flooded the company’s X (formerly Twitter) page with complaints over its poor network services in parts of the country. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that a look at the telco’s X page revealed bitter complaints by subscribers in different states of the country of the deplorable condition of its network services. Mr Johnson James (@DonJoshnson0), a subscriber, said: “Because of you guys my subscription have expired, I don’t have network on my phone since last week this frustration is too much I may be leaving this line very soon. King Wisdom David…
By Halimah Olamide The Lagos State Government on Sunday serve occupants of the under bridge in Ijora area of the state notice to quit the area. Tokunbo Wahab, the commissioner for Environment and Water Resources said at the location during an inspection that the activities of the illegal occupants will constitute danger to the operations of the Blue Line that passes over the area. He said “This quit notice is important due to the security risk that the occupation of underneath of the blue rail line bridge by minibuses, block moulders, fuel sellers and miscreants pose to the safe operation…
By Halimah Olamide For the first time the Federal Government formally responded to allegations that it is relocating the Nigerian capital to Lagos. Mohammed Idris, the Minister of Information and National Orientation, said on Sunday that Nigeria will not progress with incessant misinformation. “It is not true that the relocation to Lagos of the Headquarters of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), and of certain departments of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), are political moves aimed at marginalising a section of the country. “These allegations are unfounded; Instead, these are pragmatic administrative steps to improve operational efficiency and…
SkThree military-led West African nations have announced their immediate withdrawal from regional bloc ECOWAS, accusing the body of becoming a threat to its members. Three military-led West African nations have announced their immediate withdrawal from regional bloc ECOWAS, accusing the body of becoming a threat to its members. Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso “decide in complete sovereignty on the immediate withdrawal” from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), read a joint statement published on Sunday. end of list ECOWAS “under the influence of foreign powers, betraying its founding principles, has become a threat to its member states and…
ECOWAS says it has not received formal notification of withdrawal from the bloc by Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger. ECOWAS is a sub-regional political and economic union of 15 West African countries. It stated on Sunday in Abuja that its attention had been drawn to a broadcast on the national television stations of Mali and Niger announcing the decision of the three countries to withdraw from the union. “The ECOWAS Commission is yet to receive any direct formal notification from the three member states about their intention to withdraw from the Community. “The ECOWAS Commission, as directed by the Authority…
By Halimah Olamide The Police on Sunday said it has arrested Prince Eniola Oyesosin over Saturday’s murder of a United States based lecturer Dr. Richard Idowu. The police said Oyesosin, who is the son of the Ogiyan of Ejigbo, Oba Omowonuola Oyeyode Oyesosin was arrested because he was the one who gave instructions to his civilian guard to fire the shot that killed the Chieftain of the People Democratic Party in Osun. NPO Reported earlier that Idowu was killed on Saturday shortly after attending a ceremony marking yhe 50th anniversary of the coronation of the monarch of his town. He…
Safiu Kehinde Former Nigerian Tennis Champion, Jacqueline Okwueze, has been spotted wandering and begging on the street of Anambra. The ex-lawn tennis player was seen in a viral video posted by an X handler (formerly Twitter), Chude Nnamdi, begging for a bottle of soft drink as she narrated her ordeal to a netizen who spotted her in a street called Akwa, Abakaliki street in Anambra state. According to her, she once represented Nigeria in tennis tournament alongside Tanya Okpala. She claimed to have been subjected to abuse on the street while disclosing her plan to go the village to take…
The Police Command in Lagos State says it has arrested a suspected kingpin of child trafficking and labour syndicate, after three months of intelligence gathering. The command’s spokesperson, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed the arrest to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday. Hundeyin said the syndicate usually brought under-aged children from the northern part of Nigeria to Lagos State for child labour and other illegal activities against children. He said on Jan. 25, at about 5.45 p.m., a 45-year old leader of the syndicate, one Alimot Haruna of Molete Village, Ilorin, was arrested by detectives from Ijora Badia Police…
The Global transparency body, Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), has scored the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC Ltd) very high in its latest global assessment. The EITI’s Deputy Executive Director, Mr Bady Baldé , made this known when he led an EITI delegation to the Group Chief Executive Officer of NNPC Ltd, Mr Mele Kyari, in Abuja. Baldé, in a statement by the Chief Corporate Communications Officer, NNPC Ltd, Olufemi Soneye, said the delegation’s visit was to communicate the group’s findings in its recent global assessment to the company. He said NNPC Ltd fared very well among companies in…