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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Seven out of every 10 Nigerians are hypertensive, Prof. Modupe Onadeko, a retired Reproductive Medicine consultant at the University College Hospital, (UCH) Ibadan, said. She added that 50 per cent of this 7 are unaware of their condition and the remaining half are just not bothered to seek medical help to treat this condition. Onadeko told newsmen in Ibadan during the commemoration of the World Hypertension Day 2017. She said hypertension was a risk factor for Cerebrovascular Accidents (CVA), also called Stroke or Heart Attack. The consultant said hypertension is a condition in which the arterial blood pressure raises to high level from the normal level (120/80mmHg). “Hypertension is medical condition called “silent killer”, as it does not show any clear symptoms. “However, severe hypertension shows some symptoms of headaches, sleepiness, palpitation, blurred vision, fatigue, dizziness, confusion and ringing sensation in the ears. “Other symptoms ...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J A veteran actor and playwright, Lari Williams, has appealed to the Federal Government to do more to immortalise artistes and other citizens who made the country proud. Williams, who will soon celebrate 50 years as an artiste, made the appeal in an interview with the Newsmen on Monday in Lagos. Williams, popularly called ‘Uncle Lari’ by his colleagues, expressed dissatisfaction that some Nigerians who distinguished themselves internationally, were not immortalised. “The first Nigerian world boxing champion, Hogan Bassey, who died in 1998 after breaking world records in England and America, who knows where his grave is? “Others such as Dick Tiger Ihetu and Fela Sowande, died and were buried in America. Who knows their graves? “Professional actors who left the shores of the country such as Orlando Martins, England’s top 15 favorite actors in 1947 and Hollywood’s first Nigerian actor who died in 1985, who remembers him? “Pa Benedict Odiase, who composed the ...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Rural Access and Mobility Project (RAMP) is the World Bank assisted project in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and supported by the French Development Agency. The participating states in the second phase of the project — RAMP II — recently met at a recent retreat in Yola, Adamawa, to assess the efficiency of its development projects across the country. Mr Ubandoma Ularam, the National Coordinator of the project, promise the participants that the RAMP would meet the yearnings of rural dwellers in terms of road networking. He claimed that the project had constructed more than 4, 000 kilometres of rural roads in the first phase — RAMP I. According to him, Kaduna State and Cross River benefit from the first phase of the project while Osun, Adamawa, Enugu State, Imo and Niger will benefit from RAMP II. Directing the participating states to ensure transparency in the management of resources, Ularam said the motivation be...

http://ift.tt/2oZMBNd Emir of Kano, Muhammad Sanusi II Mr Muhuyi Magaji, the Chairman, Kano State Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Commission, says the agency has achieved 80 per cent success into the investigation of alleged misapplication of N6 billion by the Kano Emirate Council. Magaji told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Abuja that the commission has also recorded a “water tight case against the emirate council’’ over the allegations of financial misappropriation. “We have also identified our primary suspect in the course of the investigation,’’ he said, but declined to name the suspect. However, he said that the commission suspended the probe to avoid a “crisis of concurrent investigation with the state House of Assembly and possible litigation by interested parties’’. The chairman explained that the state legislature has taken over the case by constituting an eight-man committee to conduct a similar probe when the commission was on top of the situ...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Nigeria’s most innovative telecommunication company, Etisalat, has announced plans to hold a training workshop aimed at enhancing the skills of budding writers ahead of the call for submission of entries for the 2017 Etisalat Flash Fiction Award. The workshop will be facilitated by Ellah Allfrey an Editor and Patron of Etisalat Prize for Literature and Richard Ali, a Lawyer, Poet and Author. The workshop is scheduled to take place at the Etisalat Training Facility in Oriental Hotel Office Complex, Lagos on May 17, 2017. Speaking on the imperative of the workshop, Director, Brands and Experience, Etisalat Nigeria, Elvis Ogiemwanye, said the telco saw the need to organize the training session after the panel of judges for the Etisalat Flash Fiction Award announced that there will be no winner for the 2016 Flash Fiction Prize as none of the entries received met the levels of creativity, quality and excellence required for the award of the Prize. “The work...

http://ift.tt/2pBPwJn Zambian opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema waves to supporters from a police van as he leaves a courtroom in Lusaka on April 18, 2017. Hichilema's arrest on treason charges — after his convoy allegedly refused to give way to the president's motorcade on a main road in the west of the country — has fanned political tensions in Zambia. / AFP PHOTO / DAWOOD SALIM Zambian opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema will remain in custody for at least another week after a magistrate on Monday deferred a ruling on whether he could face trial for treason. Hichilema, 54, was arrested last month for allegedly obstructing President Edgar Lungu’s official limousine as both men travelled to a public event in Zambia’s Western province. He is accused of endangering Lungu’s life when Hichilema’s own convoy allegedly refused to give way to the presidential motorcade in the high-speed incident on a main road. Hichilema’s lawyers had asked the court to throw out the ...