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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Chelsea Manning, the transgender army private jailed for one of the largest leaks of classified documents in US history, was released from a maximum-security prison in Kansas Wednesday after seven years behind bars. With little fanfare, Manning, 29, walked out of Fort Leavenworth’s military jail at 2 am to start a new life, after former president Barack Obama commuted her 35-year sentence just days before leaving office. “After another anxious four months of waiting, the day has finally arrived. I am looking forward to so much!” said Manning in a statement released by her legal team. She posted a picture on Twitter of her black-and-white Converse baseball shoes with the caption “First steps of freedom!!” followed by a smiley-face emoticon. “Whatever is ahead of me, is far more important than the past,” said Manning, whose original release date was set for 2045. “I’m figuring things out right now — which is exciting, awkward, fun, and all new for me.” Man...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J The Federal Government says it provided free surgeries to 4,349 patients and screened 17, 793 indigent Nigerians in 2016. The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, disclosed this in a statement issued by Mrs Boade Akinola, Director Media and Public Relations of the ministry, on Tuesday in Abuja. The statement said the ministry had set a target to conduct 10,150 free surgeries and screenings to help alleviate the sufferings of some indigent Nigerians who cannot afford to pay. According to the statement, the ministry also carried out over 200,000 nutritional interventions to Nigerians suffering from malnutrition in the North East. It said the nutritional intervention has since been scaled up to become a full fledge project of the “Health Sector Nutrition and Emergency Response’’. It explained that the project delivered a set of comprehensive health interventions and emergency services in the troubled region. It said that the programme was a promise kept by ...