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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Chidi Nkwopara OWERRI—OVER 63 civil society organizations and other interested parties are planning a one-million-man march against what they tagged “the growing administrative anomalies,bad governance and gross insensitivity of the state government to the welfare of the citizenry”. Confirming the planned protest march  to Vanguard yesterday, in a telephone interview, the former Speaker of Imo State House of Assembly and protagonist of Advocacy for War Against Corruption Initiatives, Chief Kennedy Nwagwu, lamented that “Imo is stinking and we must recover Imo for Ndimo”. In his words: “We must make the governor to sit up. Over 63 civil society organizations have declared interest to fully participate in the one million man march against bad governance in Imo state”. While saying that nobody can completely rule out the participation of the organized labour and pensioners in the exercise, Nwagwu equally promised that they will work round the clock to ensu...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J The World Bank said, yesterday, that nations were failing to invest enough money to prevent the potential global spread of disease that could kill millions of people and cripple economies. The bank in a report, said faced with a pandemic, an unprepared planet could lose billions to trillions of dollars, a significant chunk of the global gross domestic product. The World Bank said:  “Yet, containing pandemics, diseases that spread globally, compared with epidemics that are localised, would cost about one dollar per person per year in investment. “Given the scale of risk to human lives and livelihoods, the investment case for financing preparedness is compelling,” said Peter Sands, chairman of the bank’s Working Group on Financing Preparedness which wrote the report.  We must make it happen,” he said. The bank said recent pandemics include the Zika virus, an infectious disease linked to severe birth defects in babies, and the H1N1 virus, also known as s...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Lagos—The Tin-Can Island 2 Customs Command, Ijora, yesterday said it generated the sum of N3.18 billion between January and April 2017. The command, in a statement issued by its Public Relations Officer, Mr Godwin Andishu, said the revenue exceeded the N2.6 billion target for the period. The spokesman said that the figure was also N1.5 billion or 119 per cent better than the N1.6 billion recorded by the command in the corresponding period in 2016. He described the revenue figure as ‘very impressive‘ in view of the general low import activities at the ports. Giving a breakdown, he said N834.67million was generated in January, N919.68 million in February and N649.11m in March. He added that the command generated N781.18 million in April. Andishu attributed the feat to the various reforms being implemented by the Area Controller, Alhaji Abdulkadir Dalhatu, since he assumed leadership of the command. He said the reforms include training and retraining of office...

http://ift.tt/2qxPYvD By Emeka Anaeto, Business Editor & Emma Uah, Abuja Bureau Chief There were indications that the 2017 budget passed last week by the National Assembly will run into the first half of 2018, the third consecutive time the budget year would be spilling over two fiscal years. Recall that 2015 budget spilled over into 2016 forcing the government to begin implementation even before the Appropriation Bill was passed into law and ahead of the Presidential assent. Similarly, that of 2016 budget was run officially up till May, 05, 2017 when it formally expired and closed, and to avoid grounding the wheels of governance, the Federal Government had to resort to the provisional 25 per cent recurrent expenditure allocations in the 2017 budget ahead of its passage by the National Assembly and Presidential assent. But a senior official at the Finance Ministry told Vanguard that the ministry is already working on a template that is aimed at ending such spill-overs in the 2...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Emem Idio YENAGOA—THE Bayelsa State Commissioner for Education, Elder Markson Fefegha says the state government has concluded modalities to assist local government councils in the payment of salaries of primary school teachers. Elder Fefegha made the disclosure at the opening ceremony of a two-day training programme organised for headmasters of public primary schools across the state on the preparation of payrolls for their schools. The programme, which began  on Tuesday  in Yenagoa, the state capital, is part of the ongoing reform by the state government  to tackle payroll fraud and ghost worker syndrome as well as reduce the huge salary wage bill in the state. Elder Fefegha recalled that a similar training which was organised for principals of public secondary schools yielded positive results and expressed the hope that the training will help to check payroll fraud in the state. The state Commissioner for Local Government, Agatha Goma, expl...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Do you have any product that can prevent vaginal odour? Hauwa There is a gel that can help conceal vaginal odour. It is called Coke Life Jam Lubricant and it has a wonderful fragrance. But this is what I advise. To solve this problem naturally, ensure that your genitals get adequate air. Silk based clothing like body shapers, tights and panties contribute to this odour by limiting air circulation. Except you have an infection, the odour you complain about shouldn’t be that strong. So wear cotton underwear or lacy underwear with enough room for air and always wash those parts before intercourse. And sometimes on weekends, you can go without underwear and air that region and always wash before intercourse – Uche When I am having intercourse and I ejaculate, sometimes I cannot tell if anything came out. Why is that and what can I do to change it? Olakunle There are many causes of low semen volume such as aging, retrograde ejaculation, diabetes, blood pressure medi...

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http://ift.tt/2p2ADTC BENIN—Okomu Oil Palm Company Plc, operating in three local government areas of Edo State, which include Uhumwonde, Ovia South-West and Ovia North-East, has commissioned 27 projects in communities in the three councils. Some of the projects commissioned include teachers living quarters at Iniikorogha, renovated DPO quarters phases 1 and 2 at Iguobazuwa, perimeter walls at Ekiadolor Police Station phase 1 and 2, royal palace guest house of the Iyasere’s palace at Udo, water bore hole/stanchion at Udo, provision of 40 chairs and desks at Owan, all in Ovia North- East, South-West and Uhunmwode Local Government Areas, respectively. Managing Director of the company, Dr Graham Hefer, who led the oil palm company management to the commissioning, said that the company will continue to fulfil its social responsibility to its host communities, adding that the company was already finalising the projects for the 2017 fiscal year for the host communities. According to him,...