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 Buhari’s unholy romance with Niger Republic Read more>Thousands of Donald Trump fans and supporters came  again in the rally held in Washington President,Muhammadu Buhari’s romance with Niger Republic has become an affront to the national interest of Nigeria. When he was sworn-in as an elected president in 2015 he went to Mamadou Issoufou’s presidential palace in Niamey, Niger Republic, to celebrate. They gave him the reception of a conquering Fulani warlord: a white horse and sword. I found that curious. How can a Nigerian leader celebrate his electoral victory in a foreign country and not Daura, his supposed hometown in Nigeria? The answer has since been provided through Buhari’s policy actions in the past five plus years. We have since learnt that Buhari is a first-generation Nigerian whose father, Ardo Adamu Buhari, a duck seller, had migrated from Niger, settled in Nigeria and married a Nigerian woman, Zulaihat. The borders defined by the European colonial masters mea...

 *Says he neither met Iwuanyanwu nor attended Imo stakeholders’ meeting *Inner caucus to meet, issue election guidelines next week By Clifford Ndujihe President,General of apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Chief Nnia Nwodo, has dismissed as false reports that he visited Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu and attended Imo Leaders of Thought of meeting, where a leader that will succeed him in January was chosen. Chief Nwodo’s tenure will end in January 2020. By rotational principle of Ohanaeze the next president-general will come from Imo, a reason a host of Imo leaders are now in the race. Those eyeing the Ohanaeze prime seat include Professor George Obiozor, Chief Goddy Uwazurike, and Dr. Joe Nwaogu. Faulting the report, Nwodo said in a statement on Monday morning: “The attention of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide has been drawn to a spurious, mendacious and malicious news item making the rounds that a candidate has been chosen to occupy the post of the President-General of the apex Igbo soc...

 COVID-19: pandemic A Image caption The coastal region of Qingdao as confirmed a small number of COVID-19 cases on Sunday The Chinese city of Qingdao is testing its entire population of nine million people for Covid-19 over a period of five days. The mass testing comes after a dozen cases were found linked back to a hospital treating coronavirus patients arriving from overseas. In May, China tested the entire city of Wuhan - home to 11 million people and the epicentre of the global pandemic. The country has largely brought the virus under control. That's in stark contrast to other parts of the world where there are still high case numbers and lockdown restrictions of varying severity. Did China test a whole city in 10 days❓ How Wuhan went from quiet streets to packed pools❓ In a statement posted to Chinese social media site Weibo, Qingdao's Municipal Health Commission said six new cases and six asymptomatic cases had been discovered. All the cases were linked to the same hospit...

For most people, Covid-19 is a brief and mild disease but some are left struggling with symptoms including lasting fatigue, persistent pain and breathlessness for months. The condition known as "long Covid" is having a debilitating effect on people's lives, and stories of being left exhausted after even a short walk are now common. So far, the focus has been on saving lives during the pandemic, but there is now a growing recognition that people are facing long-term consequences of a Covid-19i nfection. Yet even basic questions - such as why people get long Covid or whether everyone will fully recover - are riddled with uncertainty. What is long Covid? There is no medical definition or list of symptoms shared by all patients - two people with long Covid can have very different experiences. However, the most common feature is crippling fatigue. Others symptoms include: breathlessness, a cough that won't go away, joint pain, muscle aches, hearing and eyesight problems, h...

.  Warning letters sent to those falling seriously behind on debts are to be toned down to make them less "thuggish", under government plans. Long-standing laws require warnings about potential court action to be written in bold or in block capitals. A campaign by the Money and Mental Health Policy Institute claimed the letters were counter-productive and worsened mental health problems. Now the Treasury has vowed they should be "less threatening". However, the changes may not be fully implemented until mid-2021. 'Complex and intimidating' Under the rules of the Consumer Credit Act from 1974, warnings in these letters should be written in capitals or in bold. For example, the letter states: "IF YOU DO NOT TAKE THE ACTION REQUIRED BY THIS NOTICE BEFORE THE DATE SHOWN THEN THE FURTHER ACTION SET OUT BELOW MAY BE TAKEN AGAINST YOU." The institute said that this "complex and intimidating" language risked adding further distress to those alrea...

 There could be a "tsunami" of cancelled operations this winter as the NHS copes with rising numbers of coronavirus patients, leading surgeons are warning. Members of the Royal College of Surgeons of England say they doubt the NHS can meet targets to restore surgery back to near pre-pandemic levels. Planned procedures such as hip replacements were paused to free up beds during lockdown in the spring. And hospitals have since been dealing with a backlog. In July, NHS England boss Sir Simon Stevens told trusts hospitals should by September 2020 be performing at least 80% of their September 2019 rates of: overnight planned procedures outpatient or day-case procedures And by October, this proportion should rise to 90%. But data suggests more than two million people have been waiting longer than 18 weeks for routine operations, with 83,000 waiting more than a year - up from 2,000 before the pandemic. TESTING: How do I get a virus test? SYMPTOMS: What are they and how to guard agai...

 For the past two years, the Democratic Republic of Congo has been grappling with the world's worst outbreak of measles, which has killed more than 7,000 children. The minister of health says the outbreak is over but experts say that with a relatively low rate of vaccination - just 60% - it is just a matter of time before there is another. Journalist Sara Assarsson and photographer Johannes Tegner meet the health workers going to great lengths delivering these vital but delicate supplies: Though you would not know it from his spotless shoes, Mulalu Lwesso often walks for up to six hours delivering vaccines to a rural health facility. "I started studying nursing but couldn't afford to complete my education - now I help out where it's needed. It's a long walk and I'm getting old. I've walked this route every month since 1987," he says. The 62-year-old makes the same journey from a hospital in the town of Mwenga - wiping his forehead, slinging the coolbox...