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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Levinus Nwabughiogu ABUJA-Acting President Yemi Osinbajo on Friday visited Garki Model Market, Abuja. His mission to the market, Vanguard gathered, is to interact with the locals which included traders. This is in commemoration of the second anniversary of the President Muhammadu Buhari’s government. He is currently at the market, addressing the people. Details later The post Breaking: Osinbajo storms Garki, Abuja market, interacts with traders appeared first on Vanguard News . Vía Vanguard News http://ift.tt/2rGOPCf

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J These should be the best of times for Italian football. Juventus are on the verge of their second Champions League final in three years, new investors are promising a revival of AC Milan and Inter Milan and Serie A is slowly casting off its reputation for sterile defensive fare. But it all risks being clouded by reminders of football’s dark ages: racism has returned to haunt the national sport. Ten days after Ghana midfielder Sulley Muntari walked off in disgust after being racially abused during a match at Cagliari, the fans responsible have not been identified. No action has been taken against the Sardinian club. Muntari however was penalised, after failing to persuade the referee to suspend the match. Remonstrating with the fans earned him a first yellow card,; walking off, a second and an automatic one-match ban. An outcry spearheaded by the international players’ union and the UN human rights agency saw the ban overturned on appeal. Muntari has subsequ...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J AS part of activities to mark the second year anniversary of his administration, Delta State Governor, Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa today will commenced series of commissioning of projects. While old Ozoro/Oleh road was commissioned at Ozoro, Isoko North local government area, the Governor commissioned the reconstructed Amawah/Idheze road in Isoko South local government area. The Governor who was accompanied by a retinue of political office holders and top members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) also, inspected Ozaha Modern Primary School and the level of construction work done at the Emore Grammer School, both in Oleh, Isoko South local government area of the state. Speaking with the press shortly after the exercise, Governor Okowa commended communities in Delta State for partnering with his administration by ensuring that projects were executed to specifications and on time, disclosing that his administration has recorded tremendous progress in the pro...

http://ift.tt/2oozYHW Head of Media and Information, Dr Fabian Benjamin, made the call in an interview with the News Agency if Nigeria (NAN) on Sa The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has urged prospective candidates for its Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) to crosscheck the data on their registration forms for the last time on May 6. The board’s Head of Media and Information, Dr Fabian Benjamin, made the call in an interview with the News Agency if Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday in Lagos. The call comes ahead of the 2017 UTME scheduled for May 13 across 633 centres nationwide. NAN reports that registration of candidates for the examination was closed by the board by 12 midnight on Friday, May 5. According to Benjamin, the call for the crosschecking of data by prospective candidates was to ensure total inclusiveness. He added that the board intended to ensure that no candidate was left out during the examination due to one reason or the other. ...

http://ift.tt/2pczqWI World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Margaret Chan, AFP PHOTO / FABRICE COFFRINI Evidence suggests a mysterious illness that has killed 12 people in Liberia is linked to food or drink poisoning and is not a viral infection, the UN said Friday, confirming three new cases. The World Health Organization said that as of Wednesday the number of patients had risen to 28, with the sickness still unexplained although Ebola and Lassa fever have been ruled out. Results from ongoing tests at labs in the United States and Europe are still pending, but WHO spokesman Tarik Jaserevic told reporters in Geneva that “the overall risk of spread is low.” “These findings are indicative of a point source of infection”, he added, explaining that the leading theory being investigated was “food, drink or water poisoning.” The fact that the cases appeared tied to one funeral further suggested that an isolated poisoning was to blame. Liberia first started registeri...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Interswitch, Africa’s leading integrated digital payments and commerce company, today unveiled a new agreement with Toronto-based Fio Corporation to ramp up distribution of the company’s healthcare technology services in Nigeria. Representatives from the two companies announced the news together during a joint press conference commemorating World Malaria Day and its theme for 2017: End Malaria for Good. “The effects of malaria are devastating to the health and prosperity of people across Africa and other parts of the world where it has not been eliminated.” stated Uzor Okonmah- Head, Health Solutions at Interswitch. “This detectable and treatable disease continues to claim more than 400,000 lives each year. Our collaboration with Fio will put tools for automated disease testing and real-time tracking into the hands of more frontline health workers. Together we can advance progress toward malaria elimination in Nigeria and set an example for disease control progr...