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http://ift.tt/2qkRH4N Cisco and International Business Machines (IBM) have announced a strategic partnership in a bid to strengthen efforts to curb cyber crime. The companies say they will work together on products, services and threat intelligence to protect organisations across networks, endpoints and the cloud. Launching on the back of the recent global cyber attack WannaCry, the companies said they realised a growing need because of the rising costs of data breaches to enterprises. Marc Van Zadelhoff, general manager at IBM Security, elaborated: “The partnership will also build new relationships between the companies’ researcher teams, from the IBM X-Force and Cisco Talos. “With Cisco joining our immune system of defence, joint customers will greatly expand their ability to enhance their use of cognitive technologies like IBM Watson for cyber security.” A data-driven approach will be used to minimise cyber crime, while both parties work towards eventually being able to p...

http://ift.tt/2rHj2At Coffee Researchers found that drinking coffee and herbal tea may protect against liver fibrosis, estimated as the degree of liver stiffness, which is high in extensive scarring of the liver. Because these beverages are popular, widely available, and inexpensive, they could have the potential to become important in the prevention of advanced liver disease. Chronic liver diseases rank as the 12th cause of death worldwide and many of these disorders are associated with unhealthy lifestyles. Conversely, a healthier lifestyle can help prevent or reverse liver disease. Liver-related mortality is closely related to the development of cirrhosis, the final consequence of progressive fibrosis, i.e. scarring of the liver resulting from chronic inflammation. According to a new study published in the Journal of Hepatology, researchers found that drinking coffee and herbal tea may protect against liver fibrosis, estimated as the degree of liver stiffness, which is high in...

http://ift.tt/2rbL0ko The president, Anwar-ul Islam Movement of Nigeria; Barr. Mubashir Ojelade (left), a representative of Lagos State Government; Alhaji Mustapha Abdul Ahmed, His Royal Highness, Alaiyeluwa Oba Kabir Adewale Shotobi, Adegorushe V, Ayangburen of Ikorodu, during Anwar-ul Islam Movement of Nigeria annual Ramadan lecture. The Anwarul-ul Islam Movement of Nigeria has given an overview of the Islamic laws of inheritance with the aim of increasing the awareness in the Muslim community during it 2017 Ramadan programme. Representative of Lagos State Government and Alhaji Mustapha Abdul Ahmed said, education is the only tool that could enlighten Muslims on the true nature of Islam, including the disgust towards terrorism. “There is no compulsion in Islam, If you open your Television, you will see all kind of insane bombing been attributed to Islam, there is no compulsion in the matter of religion, Islam is not a religion that makes it a compulsion that you must be a Muslim...

http://ift.tt/2qLHyRR Azinge Prof Epiphany Azinge (SAN), and elected member representing Nigeria and Africa at the Commonwealth Arbitral Tribunal in London, told JOSEPH ONYEKWERE that more often than not, youths are those paraded, which is not too good for their psyche and can be traumatising. Is it legal to parade suspected criminals publicly, even when investigation is still ongoing, as done by the Police? In my opinion, there is no law, written or conventional (administrative), that enjoins the Police to parade suspected criminals publicly. It is rather an obnoxious practice that dates back to the military era when armed robbery was on the increase and the Police was in a hurry to show-case their capacity, competence and preparedness to combat the menace. This practice has since been accepted as a convention, which is part and parcel of our criminal justice system. But it is wrong and patently so. Our constitutional jurisprudence does not permit it. Firstly, to parade ...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Ola Ajayi I badan— A 55-year-old man, Prophet Alimi Isaiah, was yesterday, arraigned before an Iyaganku magistrate’s court, Ibadan, for allegedly being in possession of human skull and other fetish items. He was arraigned on a one count charge of unlawfully having a human skull in his possession. The prosecutor, Mr. Sunday Ogunremi, alleged that the accused on May 5, at about 9:10p.m. at Sango Road, Ibadan Magisterial District did unlawfully have in his possession one human skull. He stated that the offences contravened Sections 329(A) Criminal Code Cap 38, Vol. II, Laws of Oyo State of Nigeria, 2000. The accused, in his statement, told police that he is a prophet of a white garment church in Lagos and that he had not completed his apprenticeship before his friend lured him to join the pastoral job. Isaiah’s words: “I use the horn (found in his possession) to control people that come to me for prayer so I can collect huge amounts of money from them. “I g...

http://ift.tt/2rkNMEV Prof Youdeowei IPPAD award Within a month, four of my friends turned 80 or 81. Nearly all of them are healthy except one. I have also watched a lot of younger men look at us. Their look is suggestive of a combination of emotions, some of them contradictory. They wonder at how we have reached this ripe old age. There is confusion about what these old men still doing here: “why una never die”? There is blame that we are the cause of all the problems of Nigeria. We could not fix the problem yet we incessantly talk about them. The young feel that we are leaving them with the intolerable burden of fixing a broken Nigeria. There is impatience; get out of the way so that the young can fully accept the mantle of leadership. The young and the old speak different languages. When young people talk or sing or write poetry, the old have not the slightest idea of what they are saying: Neither do we, the old, share their dress code and values. The old seem relentlessly dete...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Yinka odumakin A FREELANCE  American journalist, Brian Hall, was one of the last outsiders permitted to freely take a tour of Yugoslavia during the final days of its existence. From early May to mid-September 1991, he interacted with  members of the various Balkan “tribes” in Zagreb, Belgrade, Sarajevo and points in between, taking notes of their comments on their history, prejudices, superstitions, fears, aspirations and opinions of other ethnic and national groups. He wrote a book titled The Impossible Country: A Journey Through the Last Days of Yugoslavia in which he described the last days of peaceful coexistence among Yugoslavia’s religious and ethnic communities and  highlighted conflicts that would trigger the horrors of “ethnic cleansing” and war. In the gripping account of the former Yugoslavia’s decay and collapse in 1991, Hall’s powerful sense of location and mentality is expressed through a blend of close friendships, high-lev...

http://ift.tt/2pz733q <br />The exercise, which started with the collection of the forms yesterday, was to have lasted for three days. •Retirement fever grips lecturers of higher institutions in Delta Thousands of applicants thronged designated centres across Akwa Ibom State to collect application forms following the state government’s announcement of vacancies for primary school teachers. The government had in the last week of April directed the State Primary School Board to employ 3,000 teachers with National Certificate for Education (NCE) and designated centers in the three senatorial districts of the state for collection of application forms. When The Guardian visited the two centers in Uyo —West Itam Secondary School and Aka Community High School- applicants were sighted in their large numbers scrambling for the forms. At the Aka Community Secondary School, mothers with their babies and scores of youths seeking employment stood in the sun for several hours in a...

http://ift.tt/2pAW38U Speaker of the ECOWAS Parliament, Senator Ike Ekweremadu • Urges FG to stop funding organisation The Citizens Advocacy for Social and Economic Rights (CASER), urged the Federal Government to conduct a thorough investigation into the circumstances surrounding the sacking of 18 Nigerians by the Speaker of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Parliament, Mustapha Cisse Lo’. CACER Executive Director, Frank Tietie, who disclosed this yesterday at press conference in Abuja, said 18 Nigerians were sacked by the speaker in a hatched plan to replace them with Senegalese. The contract terms provide for annual renewal but were ignored by the speaker who refused to renew their contract, citing irregularities in their recruitment process. Tietie stated that the sack appears a shocking example of the abuse of office that is outside the practice in ECOWAS. He opined that the new Speaker of the ECOWAS Parliament who was elected as the Fourth Speaker...

http://ift.tt/2qVwj8V Osagie Ehanire has reiterated the President Muhammadu Buhari administration’s commitment to providing accessible, affordable and quality health care to Nigerians. The Honourable Minister of State for Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire has reiterated the President Muhammadu Buhari administration’s commitment to providing accessible, affordable and quality health care to Nigerians. He said the government is using the provisions of the National Health Act (NHAct), the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) and the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), to achieve the third sustainable development goal (SDG 3) of Universal Health Coverage Osagie stated this at the weekend during the commissioning of the Grays Cardiology Centre in Ikeja, by Reddington Hospital, barely a week after the launch of its Breast and Gynae Centre. He said, “the Federal Ministry of Health (FMoH) is furthering the revitalisation of nearly 10,000 primary health care centres (PHC...

http://ift.tt/2otNkS5 Lagos Commissioner for Health, Dr. Jide Idris Concerned by the poor state of healthcare system in Nigeria, the Association of Nigerian Physicians in the Americas (ANPA) has charged the federal government to provide adequate infrastructure, institution and technical provider in all aspect of what is needed surgically and medically to curb medical tourism. The President, ANPA, Johnson Adeyanju, , disclosed this during their annual medical mission to Nigeria, in collaboration with First Consultant Hospital in Lagos recently. He said, “Nigeria will need to invest in infrastructure, make sure enough training places for our graduating physician to practise, ensure that post graduate training that we have in the country have enough people with good technical skills that can do some of the surgeries that is available and make sure that the hospital that we have has the state of the art technology to take care of the people who want to say their”. Speaking on their m...

http://ift.tt/2oCmZ6h Before the bill was passed into law, the leader of the House, Ikechukwu Ezeugwu noted that the amended bill sought to give a life-time pension to elected governors and their deputies, who were not impeached from office. The Enugu State House of Assembly has amended a law that would henceforth enable the state governors and their deputies to receive their salaries as long as they live. The law amended the gubernatorial pensions bill of 2015 and other matters passed by state Assembly. It however, provided that the governor or the deputy must not be impeached to earn such life pensions. Before the bill was passed into law, the leader of the House, Ikechukwu Ezeugwu noted that the amended bill sought to give a life-time pension to elected governors and their deputies, who were not impeached from office. Ezeugwu said that the amendment became necessary to accommodate governors who had helped in the development the state from the old Anambra State and the ne...

http://ift.tt/2pzlYuD Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole As part of efforts to improve the quality of life and survival of epileptics by increasing the knowledge and awareness of sufferers and care givers through evidence based interventions, the Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, and the Oladehin family, has launched the Samuel Olafemiwa Oladehin (SOO) Foundation against epilepsy in Lagos. The SOO foundation jointly founded and funded by the Oladehin brothers, Olakunle Oladehin, Olufemi Oladehin and Temidayo Oladehin was initiated in remembrance of their father who passed on 10 years ago and in the legacy of their sister who died five years ago from seizure and brain haemorrhage associated with epilepsy. The Oladehins at the inauguration said the core objectives of the Foundation are to address stigmatization associated with epilepsy amongst the general public, support research, development and evidence gathering activities for epilepsy, provide guidance to surfers an...

http://ift.tt/2qtXHuF Lack of policy clarity and planning leading to demotivation, disillusionment, disgruntlement and frustration have been identified as major plights facing the Nigerian teacher and generally undermining education. As entry opens for 2017 Maltina Teacher of The Year competition Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship Education, University of Lagos (UNILAG), Aloy Ejiogu has disclosed that there is a compelling need for the Federal Government and concerned stakeholders to retool and reposition the teaching profession, so as to reap the full potentials of education dividends. Presenting a paper titled, “Can Any Nation Do Without Teachers,” at the flag off of the “2017 Maltina Teacher of The Year (MTOY),” competition, Ejiogu said for the country to achieve its developmental goals, teachers must assume their “incontestable place in enhancing the realisation of sound national development plan.” He asserted that conscientious effort must be made to adequately re...

http://ift.tt/2qubBxd A parent scolding her child child PHOTO SOURCE: INTERNET FILE A new study by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, has shown that harsh parenting negatively affects children’s relationship with their friends, lowers academic achievement and made them engage in sexual activity at a younger age. The study posited that children under strict guidance are more likely to take risks, steal and even have sex at a young age. The researchers therefore while hoping their findings will help parents find alternative to “tough love,” urged parents to have a rethink on their parenting strategy. The scholars according to MailOnline publication studied 1,500 students, who they followed over nine years, beginning at age 13. The students on their part spoke to researchers about their parents’ use of physical and verbal aggression. They also spoke of their own interaction with peers, delinquency and sexual behaviour. The result...

http://ift.tt/2qu17Ob Ike Chioke has been appointed the Rhodes national secretary for the region. All is set to introduce the international Rhodes scholarship for students in West African countries as the managing director of Afrinvest Limited and a Rhodes scholar; Ike Chioke has been appointed the Rhodes national secretary for the region. Also named as strategic adviser is Tope Folarin, award-wining writer and a former spokesperson for Google. Chief Executive Officer of the Rhodes Trust and warden of Rhodes House in Oxford, United Kingdom, Charles Conn while confirming the appointment of the duo clarified that the scholarship scheme is a postgraduate award to support exceptionally brilliant students from around the world to study at the prestigious University of Oxford. According to him, the scheme “is the oldest and the most prestigious international scholarship programme in the world, which aims to nurture public-spirited leaders for the world’s future. On the choice of ...

http://ift.tt/2p0RRAf The incident propelled the FCTA to import large quantities of the vaccines with the strong zeal for quick delivery. Civil Servants, School Pupils and other residents in the six Area Councils of the Federal Capital Territory [FCT] will henceforth benefit from the ongoing vaccination against the spread of meningitis, FCT Permanent Secretary, Dr. Babatope Ajakaiye has said. Ajakaiye at an interactive forum with chairmen of the six area councils and other stakeholders has directed the ministry’s Primary Health Care Board [PHCB] to commence the exercise without further delay warning that government would not hesitate to arrest and prosecute defaulters. It would be recalled that FCT in March this year recorded four deaths when the disease initially broke out, a development that sparked off anxiety among the people. The incident propelled the FCTA to import large quantities of the vaccines with the strong zeal for quick delivery. The permanent secretary equal...