The Gombe State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Habu Dahiru has inspected medical facilities in the state, which included the newly built Bio-Medical unit, which is expected to serve as the Drug Management Agency when completed.
The Bio-Medical unit is part of the requirement for the establishment of a drug management agency.
Dr. Dahiru, who was in the company of development partners was at the State Government’s Drug Revenue Funds Commodities, where he inspected drugs available and checked the equipment stores, which store essential medical equipment.
The Gombe State Commissioner for Health was also at the cold store, which stores consumables such as vaccines, child spacing and others, after which he inspected the logistics, monitoring and the coordinating unit to check the information management gadgets.
Dr. Dahiru said after the inspection that he was highly impressed by what he saw and urged officials of the facilities to be diligent and do proper documentation as a priority, so as to ensure accountability.
He promised that the equipment would soon be distributed to secondary medical care facilities across the state.
Governor Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya had approved the renovation of the facility by providing permanent fencing and a gatehouse, as well as the construction of the biomedical store.
Earlier today, the popular comedian Chukwuemeka Emmanuel, known as Sabinus went public with his intention to sue Friesland Foods Wamco Nigeria and UAC Food LTD. The companies behind the manufacture of Peak Milk And Gala respectively.
Sabinus’s Story
Commercializing Nigeria’s IPR gives the average Nigerian citizen, the opportunity to prove their ownership of intellectual properties.
It also ensures that proper compensation, acknowledgment, and royalties be received by these verified owners.
The story of the 2022 AMVCA Online Social Content Creator, Sabinus, is another of those cases where intellectual property has been used without prior acknowledgment of the owner.
According to the owner of the talent management agency to which Sabinus belongs, there is a ‘demand of one billion naira’ from Friesland Foods Wamco Nigeria for the usage of Sabinus’s ‘trademarked phrase~ Something hooge’.
Mr Sabinus and his legal team have taken hoooooj legal steps here. N1B for Peak milk and N100m for gala. The meat don dey less inside gala na why their own fee less ????????????
— ✨???? DaddyMO????✨???? (@therealdaddymo1) May 30, 2022
The video on Sabinus’s demands
They are also demanding ‘a hundred million naira for using Sabinus’s investor’s vibes Image’ on their advert ‘to drive people to their brand’.
Nigerians have taken to social media to express their sentiments on the situation. Many are of the impression that the phrase something hooge is all over the internet and aren’t copyrighted.
Sabinus legal representative, Stanley Alieke, has however said:
“It will interest you to know that the phrase ‘something hooge’, which was popularized by our client, has been trademarked and legally reserved as his intellectual property by the Federal Ministry of Trade and Investment.
Sabinus’s Lawyer
According to him, the slogan was trademarked on the 26th of November 2021 with the file number: NG/TM/O/2021/48316. 10.
Both companies have also been given two weeks from the receipt of the notice to comply.
How Will Intellectual Property Theft Be Abated?
The development with the Developing Africa Group and Koibanx to commercialize Nigeria’s intellectual property rights using the Algorand blockchain would pose a solution to intellectual property thefts.
On the corporate side, firms and organizations can get if a property has been copyrighted or trademarked because the blockchain is transparent.
This will reduce the use of people’s property due to ignorance and save them from falling prey to lawsuits.
On the individual side, citizens can fully prove ownership and dissolve doubts regarding their property. It also allows citizens to get due compensation, acknowledgment, and royalty for the usage of their intellectual property.
Algorand’s Role In The Commercialization Of Nigeria’s Intellectual Property Rights.
The Nigerian government chose Algorand as the underlying technology to be used in its trade of intellectual property rights.
Interestingly, several Nigerian projects are building on the Algorand blockchain too. There’s Loozr and Crypto Smart.
About Crypto Smart
Crypto Smart, Africa’s No 1 Asset management company, is set to launch one of its blockchain products, Bitsave Protocol, on Algorand blockchain, watch this interview on CryptoTv+ as miss Karla Obakpolor throws some insight on how the Bitsave Protocol works.
According to Karla Obakpolor, Founder of Crypto Smart;
“Bitsave protocol, which is a SaveFi protocol, will be built on Algorand blockchain and is being patented and trademarked before the Crypto Smart team goes public with the product.”
Karla Obakpolor has also highlighted some benefits to this IP development in NFTs, Patenting process, and more. She also highlighted some concerns as to this new development.
Recent excavations in Jerusalem’s Armon Hanatziv neighborhood are resurrecting one of the ancient city’s main water suppliers — the 2,000-year-old Low-Level Aqueduct that brought water to the Temple Mount from Solomon’s Pools near Bethlehem, 21 kilometers away.
Used until the British Mandate, when it was discarded for new electric pump technology, the newly uncovered segment of the Hasmonean-era water line — currently some 40 meters — will be conserved and integrated into a neighborhood park in cooperation with the Jerusalem Municipality and the Moriah Jerusalem Development Corporation.
“This is a real historical monument of the city,” Israel Antiquities Authority archaeologist Yaakov Billig, an expert in ancient aqueducts, said on Sunday, Jerusalem Day.
It was used and maintained (or not) by a succession of rulers, said Billig, including those from the three major monotheistic religions, through the end of the Ottoman Empire, when it began to increasingly crack and decay.
Since it was in use until relatively recently, modern researchers have long been aware of the location of the aqueduct and it appears in maps of Ottoman-era Jerusalem.
In excavations led by the IAA’s Alexander Wiegmann, all the eroded dirt and fill has been removed from the new section, which will soon be readied for tourists to visit.
Billig said that the new excavations are not being conducted merely for the sake of nostalgia, however.
Rather, researchers are still amazed and even somewhat mystified by the precision technology constructed in antiquity without the aid of GPS or modern computation methods.
The Low-Level Aqueduct dates to circa 100 BCE, said Billig, and was used for public needs specifically at the Temple Mount. It was at the outer limits of contemporary technology, he said.
With the advent of the electric pump, however, “just like a lot of old things, it was neglected.” Billig said that over the course of the aqueduct’s history, it required a lot of upkeep.
“When the authorities were strong enough and had the budget and interest to do so, [the water] made a difference; it was an extra boost of water supply to the city.”
When the local authorities weren’t dominant, passing shepherds would poke holes in the pipeline to water their flocks, for example, and newspapers of the 19th century were riddled with reports of water outages and pipe repairs.
“About 100 years ago, a whole new modern invention called electricity could now pump water up hill,” said Billig, whereupon local authorities “didn’t bother with the aqueduct” and it was covered with debris and eroded soil.
“Each new solution is revolutionary and gives more water, better water, and now you can neglect the old thing,” said Billig, pointing to new desalination technology. “Today there is no threat of a water shortage, which is something that was a risk a few years ago.”
Canada released a rainfall warning Saturday afternoon predicting 30-50mm of rainfall for the southeast corner of the province.
The warning extends from the Canada/U.S border to the community of Whitewood, and as far west as Weyburn.
The federal weather agency warns that heavy rain can cause flash floods and that “localized flooding in low-lying areas is possible.”
Canada urges residents in the areas under warning to be mindful of the current weather conditions and to listen for updates as the situation progresses.
According to the latest forecast, the heavy rainfall is set to begin tapering off Sunday evening.
The Queen is no longer expected to appear at the Epsom Derby during her Platinum Jubilee Weekend according to reports.
The Derby is thought to be one of the Queen’s favourite occasions but according to the newspaper, the chances of her appearing there this year are “increasingly unlikely.”
It was also reported that Princess Royal will be stepping in for the Monarch so she can pace herself throughout the weekend of celebrations.
The 96-year-old is a passionate equestrian and the Derby would have been a personal highlight for her from the Jubilee weekend.
The head of state was due to be greeted on the course with a special guard of honour including up to 40 of her past and present jockeys.
Buckingham Palace has not yet commented on the decision and said that the Queen’s final itinerary for the weekend will not be confirmed until closer to the weekend.
Despite the news, Her Majesty is thought to delight royal fans with two iconic appearances on the balcony of Buckingham Palace, following the Trooping the Colour at the start of the celebrations on Thursday and after the final pageant parade on Sunday.
The monarch also hopes to attend the service of thanksgiving at St Paul’s Cathedral on Friday, where she will reunite with her wider family including, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex and the Duke of York.
On Friday the Queen took to her Scottish abode Balmoral for a well-deserved break before the start of the celebrations next week.
She often visits at this time of year and spends an extended amount of time at Balmoral over the summer period, usually travelling there in mid-July and staying until September or October.
In the past few weeks, the monarch has carried out a string of engagements, both at home at Windsor Castle and also travelling to London despite her mobility issues.
She attended the first day of the Chelsea Flower Show on Monday and last week also opened the new Elizabeth Line at Paddington station.
BP said it will look again at its plans in the UK, as a £5Bn windfall tax on oil and gas profits announced by the government included enough incentives to preserve investment.
BP Plc said it will look again at its plans in the UK, raising questions about whether a £5 billion windfall tax on oil and gas profits announced by the government included enough incentives to preserve investment.
The statement opens up the possibility of reversal by the London-based oil major, which has previously said that planned investments of £18 billion ($23 billion) in the country by 2030 weren’t contingent on whether or not the government raised taxes.
The UK government announced on Thursday that it will impose a 25% windfall tax on oil and gas companies, bowing to mounting pressure to support Britons facing a record squeeze on living standards.
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak appeared to try to head off criticism that the measure was anti-business, including in the proposal an 80% new-investment allowance that means energy companies can reduce the amount they pay if they commit to fresh capital expenditure.
The major risk to the UK North Sea oil and gas industry is that international companies like BP and Shell, which are scaling back fossil-fuel investments in favor of low-carbon energy, see the UK as less attractive following this announcement, JP Morgan’s Managing Director for Global Energy Christyan Malek said in an interview. A windfall tax “creates unpredictability for projects that take years to develop,” Malek said.
While most companies acknowledged that Sunak was responding to an urgent real cost-of-living crisis, the industry reacted with a mixture of caution and disappointment.
Most analysts expected smaller explorers and producers, so-called E&Ps, to be hit much harder than majors.
Harbour Energy Plc, a relative minnow globally but the biggest producer in the UK, may face about £840 million in extra costs from 2022 to 2024, Stifel analyst Chris Wheaton wrote in a note. While Harbour’s investments offset some of the tax impact, “this could well incentivise the company to look more closely at acquisitions outside the UK,” he said.
Harbour wasn’t immediately able to comment.
Companies such as Serica Energy Plc, which have low proportion of capital expenditure compared to earnings before interest, depreciation, amortization, and exploration would also feel a bigger impact than most, according to Stifel. Serica Energy declined to comment.
1453 Constantinople, capital of the Eastern Roman Empire falls to the Turks under Mehmed II; ends the Byzantine Empire
1592 Battle of Sacheon: Korean navy led by Admiral Yi Sun Shin repels a Japanese fleet – first use of Korean Turtle ship
1660 On his 30th birthday Charles II returns to London from exile in the Netherlands to claim the English throne after the Puritan Commonwealth comes to an end
1851 Sojourner Truth addresses 1st Black Women’s Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio
1953 Edmund Hillary (NZ) and Tenzing Norgay (Nepal) are first to reach the summit of Mount Everest as part of a British Expedition
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Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has been elected as the Peoples Democratic Party’s flagbearer for the 2023 presidential election.
This will be the sixth attempt for the nation’s top job by the 75-year-old.
In the last election in 2019, Atiku was also the Party’s candidate which he lost to President Muhammadu Buhari.
To win the PDP’s 2023 ticket, Atiku had to beat the likes of Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike, Akwa Ibom Governor, Udom Emmanuel and former Senate President, Bukola Saraki.
Before voting commenced on Friday at the primary election in Abuja, Sokoto State Governor Aminu Tambuwal stepped down for Atiku, a move that strengthened the Adamawa politician’s bid for the ticket.
The election which held at MKO Abiola Stadium in Abuja on Saturday had 12 votes were voided in the exercise, while Atiku scored 371 votes. His closest challenger, Wike, polled 237 votes. Saraki pulled 70 votes.
Emmanuel (38), Mohammed (20), Anyim Pius Anyim (14), Tari Diana Oliver (1) and Sam Ohuabunwa (1) shared the remainder of the eligible votes.
The Chelsea sale is expected to be completed on Monday after a “final and definitive agreement” was reached with the consortium led by Todd Boehly.
The Premier League and UK government have approved the £4.25bn takeover.
Chelsea were put up for sale in March before owner Roman Abramovich was sanctioned over his links to Russian president Vladimir Putin.
The club have been operating under a special government licence which expires on 31 May.
“Chelsea Football Club can confirm that a final and definitive agreement was entered into last night to sell the club to the Todd Boehly/Clearlake Capital consortium,” Chelsea said in a statement on Saturday.
Abramovich, who bought Chelsea in 2003, said he was “pleased this search has now come to a successful conclusion”.
He added: “As I hand over Chelsea to its new custodians, I would like to wish them the best of success, both on and off the pitch.
“It has been an honour of a lifetime to be a part of this club – I would like to thank all the club’s past and current players, staff, and of course fans for these incredible years.”
Daniil Medvedev continued his impressive form as he picked apart Miomir Kecmanovic to reach the fourth round of the French Open without dropping set.
The second seed was relentless and inventive throughout a 6-2 6-4 6-2 win over the Serbian 28th seed.
He found 42 winners on Court Suzanne Lenglen, including a forehand pass while on the move on match point.
The Russian faces France’s Gilles Simon or Croat Marin Cilic in the last 16.
Much of the focus in the draw has been aimed at the top half, which includes defending champion Novak Djokovic, 13-time winner Rafael Nadal and in-form Carlos Alcaraz, and has duly taken scrutiny away from US Open winner Medvedev.
The 26-year-old could meet 2021 runner-up Stefanos Tsitsipas at the semi-final stage.
Medvedev’s best run at Roland Garros was a quarter-final last year but he looks more at ease on clay – his least favourite surface – than ever before.
He had arrived at the French Open with only one match on clay under his belt after having a procedure to treat a hernia in April.
Here – against a highly capable opponent – he landed two breaks in the opening set and one in the second to open up a cushion.
By the third set he was finding drop shots and eye-catching angles, none more so than when he whipped a low forehand across court at 1-1.
Elsewhere in the lower half of the draw, seventh seed Andrey Rublev beat Cristian Garin 6-4 3-6 6-2 7-6 (13-11).
The 24-year-old Russian has not gone past the quarter-final stage of a Grand Slam in his career to date.
He will get the chance to reach the last eight when he plays Italian 11th seed Jannik Sinner – who beat American Mackenzie McDonald 6-3 7-6 (8-6) 6-3.
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