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http://ift.tt/2qqomUP IDPs The Yobe State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) has registered 100 births at the Pompomari Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp in Damaturu in two years. Alhaji Musa Jidawa, the SEMA’s Executive Secretary made this known to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Damaturu. He said that 57 boys and 43 girls were delivered at the camp clinic safely. “The camp clinic provided all the ante-natal care and the deliveries were very safe with mothers and babies in very good health,’’ he said. SEMA on Thursday organized a lavish ceremony for the 2,000 camp inmates to celebrate the birth of the 100 babies. It also donated 100 wrappers and baby clothes to each of the 100 mothers and babies as well as birth certificates obtained from the National Population Commission (NPC). Jidawa commended the state government for providing adequate feeding, medical care, clothing as well as water and sanitation facilities in the camp to support the displaced...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Police in Amsterdam are on high alert after the Manchester attack with large crowds set to gather outdoors to watch Wednesday’s Europa League final between Ajax and Manchester United. The match will be screened live from the Stockholm Friends Arena on a giant screen set up in Amsterdam’s famous Museum Square, with up to 100,000 Ajax fans expected to turn out. “An immense number of police officers are being deployed, together with municipal safety officers,” an Amsterdam official said. “The attack in Manchester fits the current threat faced by all big European cities,” the official told the De Telegraaf newspaper. Dutch anti-terror chief Dick Schoof said late Tuesday after meeting police and event organisers that all parties “are on extra alert” following Monday’s attack in which 22 people were killed and dozens injured. But unlike in Britain, Schoof has not increased the terror threat level to maximum, saying he would only do so “if we have information about ...

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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Two fallen peacekeepers from Nigeria, Commodore Christopher Ademu Abu and Sgt. Mayehm Norbert, are among the 117 that would be honoured with the posthumous Dag Hammarskjöld medal. The Dag Hammarskjöld Medal is a posthumous award given by the UN to military personnel, police, or civilians who lose their lives while serving in a UN peacekeeping operation. The medal is named after Dag Hammarskjöld, the second Secretary-General of the UN, who died in a plane crash in what is now Zambia in September 1961. The UN, in a statement said the Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, would award the Dag Hammarskjöld Medal posthumously to the 117 fallen heroes at the UN Headquarters on Wednesday. The UN headquarters would observe the 2017 International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers on May 24. “Two fallen peacekeepers from Nigeria are among those to posthumously receive the Dag Hammarskjöld medal , Commodore Christopher Ademu Abu, who served with the United Nations Multid...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Countries in sub-Saharan Africa need to get their budgets in order, diversify their economies and look after their poorest people, the IMF said. According to the IMF’s regional economic outlook, tf they do that, there is no reason why the region cannot have the strong growth needed to meet the aspirations of a young and growing population. That, at least, is the three-pillared prescription from the IMF as expressed by one of its top Africa researchers, Celine Allard, in an official IMF blog post and podcast. Allard co-authored the Fund’s regional economic outlook. It found that sub-Saharan economic growth hit only 1.4 percent last year, the lowest level in two decades and well off the five to six per cent rates normally reached. It was also well below the population growth rate. “This is a quite broad-based deceleration because we see about two-thirds of the countries having slowed down last year, which is quite substantial,” she said in the podcast. While ...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Electricity supply would be disrupted in many parts of Lagos this week as Eko Electricity Distribution Company (EKEDC) on Monday announced five days power outage in the city. EKEDC spokesman, Godwin Idemudia, said in a statement that the outage would affect Ikoyi, Victoria Island and parts of Lagos Island from Wednesday to Sunday. Idemudia said that the outage was to enable maintenance crew from the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) address technical and maintenance issues at Alagbon transmission station. “We want to inform our esteem customers that from Wednesday, May 24 to Sunday, May 28, there will be an outage within Ikoyi, Victoria Island and parts of Lagos Island. “This is to enable TCN maintenance crew resolve some technical issues within Alagbon transmission stations,’’ EKEDC said. The EKEDC spokesman said that the company highly regretted any inconveniences caused by the five-day outage. He promised that supply would be restored to the affected ...