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Nigeria To Conduct Digital Census May 2022

Angel Gimalo
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Nigeria To Conduct Digital Census May 2022

Chairman Of The National Population Commission (NPC), Nasir Isa Kwarra, Has Disclosed That The Commission Will Conduct The Maiden Digital Population Census In May 2022.

Speaking When He Paid A Courtesy Visit To The Governor Of Kaduna State, Nasir El Rufai, He Said The Commission Is Ready To Conduct The Digital Population Census In The Country.

He Also Stressed The Commission’s Capacity To Tackle Insecurity In All The States Of The Federation During The Census.

He Observed That The Aim Of His Visit Was To Create Awareness Of The Forthcoming Census And Solicit The Support Of The Government And The People Of Kaduna State For The Success Of Its Activities.

Responding, Governor Nasir El -Rufai Said Kaduna Needed An Update Of The Census In The State To Ensure That Plans Are Done In Line With The Number Of Citizens.

Kaduna Government Directs Public Schools to Migrate to Four-Day Working Week

Precious Obazee
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Kaduna Government Directs Public Schools to Migrate to Four-Day Working Week

The Kaduna State Government has directed all public schools in the state to migrate to the four-day working week, as schools reopen on January 10 for the second term of the 2021/2022 academic session.

The Commissioner for Education, Halima Lawal, gave the directive in Kaduna in a notice for school resumption for second term of the 2021/2022 academic session.

Recall that the Kaduna State Government had on December 1, 2021, begun transition to a four-day working week.

A statement by Muyiwa Adekeye, media adviser to Governor Nasir El-Rufai, had explained that the new measure would eventually affect the organised private sector in the state.

According to the statement, the measure is designed to help boost productivity, improve work-life balance and enable workers to have more time for their families, for rest and for agriculture.

Lawal explained that in view of the new development, the 2021/2022 academic calendar would be adjusted to ensure coverage of the curriculum for the academic session.

She said all parents, guardians, and the public should note that the state government has approved January 10 as the resumption date for the 2nd term of the 2021/2022 academic session.

The commissioner also urged the school administrators and proprietors to adhere to the Safe School Learning Initiatives as directed by the Federal Ministry of Education.

She advised members of the school security committee to ensure proper monitoring of security apparatus and prompt reporting of any security threats in their schools through the following numbers: 09034000060 or 08170189999.

Once Upon A Time – Jan. 11 – 1949 – Snowfall 1st Recorded In Los Angeles

Angel Gimalo
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Once Upon A Time – Jan. 11 – 1949 – Snowfall 1st Recorded In Los Angeles

1599 Jacob van Neck’s fleet leaves Bantam, Java in modern-day Indonesia with 1 million pounds of pepper and cloves and a further half a ship full of nutmeg, mace and cinnamon

1838 First public demonstration of telegraph messages sent using dots and dashes at Speedwell Ironworks in Morristown, New Jersey by Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail

1879 Anglo-Zulu War begins as British Lt-General Chelmsford invades Zululand in South Africa

1922 Insulin first used on humans to treat diabetes, on Canadian Leonard Thompson, aged 14

1964 First government report by US Surgeon General Luther Terry warning that smoking may be hazardous

HISTORICAL EVENTS TODAY

TODAY IN FILM & TV

1927 Louis B. Mayer head of film studio MGM announces creation of Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

TODAY IN MUSIC

1980 Debut of first The Pretenders album “Pretenders”

TODAY IN SPORT

1960 LaMar Clark sets pro boxing record of 44 consecutive knockouts

DO YOU KNOW THIS FACT ABOUT TODAY? DID YOU KNOW?

1569 1st recorded lottery in England is drawn in St Paul’s Cathedral

WOULD YOU BELIEVE THIS FACT ABOUT TODAY? WOULD YOU BELIEVE IT?

1949 Snowfall 1st recorded in Los Angeles

RUN Gets More Support To Enhance Academic Excellence

Rhoda Onuzulike
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RUN Gets More Support To Enhance Academic Excellence

The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has assured the management of the Redeemer’s University, Ede, Osun State, of continued support for the institution to attain global leadership in education.

Pastor Enoch Adeboye, who is also the Visitor to the university, spoke through the Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of Council, Pastor Ezekiel Odeyemi at the commissioning of Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences building complex built by him and his wife, Pastor Folu, for the university.

The clergy noted that the donation would enhance academic excellence for which the university is known, adding that the institution would not be competing locally, but would compete with world leading universities.

He said, “The church will continue to support Redeemer’s University for it to further grow and attain global leadership”.

Redeemer’s University has already registered its name on the international map.

Ondo: Adeyemi College Now A University Of Education

Rhoda Onuzulike
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Ondo: Adeyemi College Now A University Of Education

A member of the House of Representative from Ondo State, Abiola Makinde has said the Adeyemi College of Education, Ondo has been upgraded to a university status following the presidential approval.

Makinde announced on social media that the President Muhammadu Buhari had assented to the bill that upgraded the institution to a university, after the bill had been passed into law by the House of Representatives .

Speaking on the development, Makinde, the representative of Ondo East/Ondo West Federal Constituency, who presented the bill before the House said the development was a monumental achievement which had changed the narrative surrounding the status of the ACE.

He said, “I broke the news of the    presidential assent on the bill I presented at the National Assembly to upgrade Adeyemi College of Education to a federal university on my social media.

“During my campaign in 2019 to become a member House of Representatives, I assured my constituents that if I was given the opportunity to serve as a member of the Green Chamber that I will pursue tirelessly the prospect of Adeyemi College of Education becoming a Federal University of Education.”

Niger State Governor Flags Off HPV Screening

Olasunbo Okoromi
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Niger State Governor Flags Off HPV Screening

Niger State Governor Abubakar Sani Bello has flagged off the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) screening and Cervical Cancer prevention services in Minna the state capital.

The exercise was flagged off on Monday at the Jummai Babangida Maternal and Neo-natal Hospital Minna .

The center according to Mary Noel Barje The CPS to the Governor, will benefit over five thousand women across nine local government areas in the state as a pilot scheme is designed to reduce the prevalence rate of Cancer which is a global menace in the state.

The Governor who also reiterated his administration’s continuous support to the State University, in the area of research in cancer and other life-threatening diseases., maintained that providing good health care facilities and services in the state will continue to be a priority to his administration hence the budget estimates for health sector in 2022 was significantly captured.

“I have been briefed by my Commissioner for Health on the situation of the State on the prevalence level of Cancer. I am glad to inform you that we have already set in motion apparatus to remedy the situation as well as meeting the target set by the World Health Organisation (WHO)” he said.

Governor Sani Bello further assured that his government will continue to work towards improving some of the negative health indices in the state even as he maintained that Health Care Delivery has witnessed significant changes in his administration.

The Governor commended the Commissioner for health, staff of the Ministries and all development partners particularly CHAI, WHO, RAiSE FOUNDATION and PPFN for their efforts and contributions to better the health sector in the state.

The wife of the Niger State Governor, Dr Amina Abubakar Bello who also disclosed that cervical cancer is the 4th leading cause of death among women affecting about 1.4 million women and the most common cancer with women living with HIV, explained that about 80 per cent of cancer occur in the low-and-middle-income countries including Nigeria, adding that at the global stage, the World Health Organization (WHO) is working towards the elimination of cervical cancer to achieve less than four new cases per 100, 000 women.

The Commissioner for Health, Dr Muhammad Makusidi noted that the project is in collaboration with the WHO, CHAI and RAiSE foundation pointing out that 15 state trainers and 100 healthcare workers from primary, secondary as well as tertiary healthcare facilities across the state have been trained on Cervical Cancer Prevention Services,

He said 10 healthcare facilities across the state will be used adding that consumables worth millions of naira have been procured to ensure smooth takeoff.

The 9 local government areas to commence the services are Chanchaga, Paikoro, Bosso, Gbako, Borgu, Suleja, Kontagora, Lapai and Mokwa Local government areas of the state.

Man Gets Genetically-Modified Pig Heart In World-First Transplant

Koko Lawrence
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Man Gets Genetically-Modified Pig Heart In World-First Transplant

A US man has become the first person in the world to get a heart transplant from a genetically-modified pig.

David Bennett, 57, is doing well three days after the experimental seven-hour procedure in Baltimore, doctors say.

The transplant was considered the last hope of saving Bennett’s life, though it is not yet clear what his long-term chances of survival are.

“It was either die or do this transplant,” Bennett explained a day before the surgery.

“I know it’s a shot in the dark, but it’s my last choice,” he said.

Doctors at the University of Maryland Medical Center were granted a special dispensation by the US medical regulator to carry out the procedure, on the basis that Bennett – who has terminal heart disease – would otherwise have died.

He had been deemed ineligible for a human transplant, a decision that is often taken by doctors when the patient is in very poor health.

The pig used in the transplant had been genetically modified to knock out several genes that would have led to the organ being rejected by Bennett’s body.

For the medical team who carried out the transplant, it marks the culmination of years of research and could change lives around the world.

Surgeon Bartley Griffith said the surgery would bring the world “one step closer to solving the organ shortage crisis”. Currently 17 people die every day in the US waiting for a transplant, with more than 100,000 reportedly on the waiting list.

First U.S. Coins With Maya Angelou Go Into Circulation

Koko Lawrence
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First U.S. Coins With Maya Angelou Go Into Circulation

Poet and activist Maya Angelou has become the first African American woman to appear on the US quarter, in a new version of the coin unveiled by the US Mint on Monday.

Angelou, author of “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” will also be the first figure commemorated through the American Women Quarters Program, which was signed into law in January 2021.

The US Mint “has begun shipping the first coins” with Angelou’s likeness on the American quarter, a 25-cent piece, according to a press release from the agency.

“It is my honor to present our nation’s first circulating coins dedicated to celebrating American women and their contributions to American history,” said Mint Deputy Director Ventris Gibson.

“Each 2022 quarter is designed to reflect the breadth and depth of accomplishments being celebrated throughout this historic coin program. Maya Angelou, featured on the reverse of this first coin in the series, used words to inspire and uplift.”

The program directs the US Mint to issue quarters each year between 2022 and 2025 featuring five different female trailblazers who have contributed to the country.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said she was “proud that these coins celebrate the contributions of some of America’s most remarkable women.”

The new quarters — which have been minted in Philadelphia and Denver — show Washington on one side and Angelou on the other.

The other figures set to appear on the coin in 2022 are: Sally Ride, the first American woman in space, Wilma Mankiller, the first female principal chief of the Cherokee Nation, Nina Otero-Warren, a New Mexico suffrage leader and Anna May Wong, a Chinese American film star.

Angelou, who was born in Missouri in 1928, was an essayist and poet who worked with Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X during the Civil Rights Movement.

Angelou, who delivered the poem at former President Bill Clinton’s first inauguration, died in 2014.

15 Amazing Facts Ahead Nigeria – Egypt Africa Cup of Nations Clash

Emenike Agu
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15 Amazing Facts Ahead Nigeria – Egypt Africa Cup of Nations Clash

Both Nigeria and Egypt meet in Garoua, Cameroon  on Tuesday as attention shifts to Group D in the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations. It is a potentially an epic confrontation of two of the teams with the best records in the Africa Cup of Nations history. This match is coming a day to the 11th anniversary of their encounter of 12 January 2010 when they met at the Angola 2010 Africa Cup of Nations.

As usual, www.sportsvillagesquare.com takes an insightful look at the match and comes out with the following points of interest.

  • When Paul Onuachu scored within eight seconds against Egypt in a friendly match played at the Stephen Keshi Stadium in Asaba on 26 march 2019, it entered the  record books as the second fastest goal in international football.
  • This Tuesday’s match will be Nigeria’s 94th Africa Cup of Nations match since the 1963 debut in Kumasi, Ghana.
  • This match will be Egypt’s 101st match in the Africa Cup of Nations’ history. 
  • Egypt, playing under the flag of United Arab Republic, a short-lived union of Egypt and Syria, is the first country that inflicted a home defeat on Nigeria when the team  beat Nigeria’s ‘Red Devils’ 6-2 in Lagos in a Rome 1960 Olympic qualifying tournament played on 13 December 1959.
  • Egypt was the team that made Nigeria to switch from red shirts to the now familiar green. It was at the occasion of the return leg match of the Rome Olympic Games’ qualifying tournament played in Cairo on January 1, 1960. The Nigerian team had to change to green since the home country played in red. It was a step towards becoming ‘Green Eagles’ in the months that followed. Nigeria lost the match 0-3.
  • Nigeria’s first own goal was scored in the match with Egypt (UAR) on 13 December 1959 when John Onyeador turned the ball into his team’s net after two minutes of kick-off in an eventual 2-6 home loss.
  • It was against Egypt that Asuquo Ekpe scored Nigeria’s first Africa Cup of Nations’ goal in a 6-3 loss on November 24, 1963 in Kumasi, Ghana.
  • It was in Egypt that Obinna Nsofor scored Nigeria’s 100th Africa Cup of Nations goal when he found the net in a 1-1 draw with Tunisia on 4 February 2006 in Port Said.
  • Until Ghana beat Egypt in the qualifying series for Brazil 2014, Nigeria’s 4-0 defeat of Egypt on 8 October 1977, was the country’s heaviest defeat in a World Cup qualifying match.
  • Until Egypt beat Nigeria 3-1 in Benguela, Angola, Nigeria successively had the upper hand in all Africa Cup of Nations’ matches involving both countries from 1976 to 2010.
  • Former Nigerian skipper, Stephen Keshi scored the first of his 10 goals for Nigeria when he converted a penalty kick against Egypt in a friendly match on 20 February 1983 in Kaduna to bring scoreline to 1-1.
  • The doyen of football coaches in Nigeria, Chief Adegboye Onigbinde made his national team debut as Nigeria’s coach in a 18 February 1983 friendly match with Egypt in Lagos. The match ended goalless.
  • Egypt with seven victories won most titles of the Africa Cup of Nations.
  • Nigeria with seven third placed positions has the record of most bronze medals.
  • Nigeria and Egypt are the only countries to have personalities who won the African titles as players and coaches. Egypt’s Mahmoud El-Gohary won the African Cup as player in 1959 and then as a coach in 1998. Nigeria’s Stephen Keshi won the cup as a player in 1994 and then as a coach in 2013.
  • In head-to-head confrontations, Egypt has a slight edge over Nigeria having won eight of 21 encounters while Nigeria won six

P          W         D          L          F          A

Egypt              21         8         7          6          36        29

Nigeria           21         6         7           8          29        36

·  13 Dec. 1959  (Oq, Lagos) Nigeria 2-6 Egypt

·  1 Jan. 1960 (Oq, Cairo)   Egypt 3-0 Nigeria

·  29 Nov. 1960 (F. Lagos) Nigeria 1-2 Egypt

·  24 Nov. 1963 (Afcon, Kumasi) Egypt 6-3 Nigeria

·  14 Jan 1973 (AAG, Lagos) Nigeria 4-2 Egypt

·  14 Mar 1976 (Afcon Dire Dawa) Egypt 2-3 Nigeria

·  8 Oct. 1977 (WCq, Lagos) Nigeria 4-0 Egypt

·  21 Oct. 1977 (WCq, Cairo) Egypt 3-1 Nigeria

·  15 Mar. 1980 (Afcon, Lagos) Nigeria 1-0 Egypt

·  18 Feb. 1983 (F. Lagos) Nigeria 0-0 Egypt

·  20 Feb. 1983 (F. Kaduna) Nigeria 1-1 Egypt

·  14 Mar. 1984 (Afcon, Bouake) Egypt 2-2 Nigeria (7-8 pso)

·  20 Mar. 1988 (Afcon, Rabat) Egypt 0-0 Nigeria

·  5. Mar. 1990 (Afcon, Algiers) Egypt 0-1 Nigeria

·  30 Mar. 1994 (Afcon, Tunis) Egypt 0-0 Nigeria

·  25 Nov 2002 (F. Lagos) Nigeria 1-1 Egypt

·  12 Jan 2010 (Afcon. Benguela) Egypt 3-1 Nigeria

·  12 Apr 2012 (F-Dubai) Egypt 3-2 Nigeria

·  25 Mar 2016 (Afconq, Kaduna) Nigeria 1-1 Egypt

·  29 Mar, 2016 (Afconq, Alexandria) Egypt 1-0 Nigeria

  • 26 Mar. 2019 (F, Asaba) Nigeria 1-0 Egypt

Burkina Faso Striker, Gustavo Sangaré Enters Record Book

Emenike Agu
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Burkina Faso Striker, Gustavo Sangaré Enters Record Book

Gustavo Sangaré of Burkina Faso is the first scorer of this 33rd edition of the Africa Cup of Nations, Cameroon 2021.

He provided one of the greatest performances of his team on Sunday against Cameroon in the opener of the African biggest football tournament.

The Queville Roue Métropole attacking midfielder in the French Ligue 2 made a successful debut at TotalEnergies AFCON despite his team’s defeat. Sangaré scored points in a personal level.

“It’s true that I scored my team’s goal but in the end we lost to the host country in our first match of the tournament” said the Burkinabé midfielder after the match before adding:

“This goal will push me to work even harder during the next matches to be up to the task and participate in the qualification of Burkina faso in the next round and to go as far as possible “.

Sangare (25) scored his first goal on Sunday in his second match for the Stallions, after a thunderous first appearance against Algeria in Qatar 2022 Qualifier.

The performance of Salitas and Frontignan’s young product reflects the good level of Burkinabe Faso, which moved to Cameroon for the AFCON 2021 with a young team made up of talented players as stated by assistant coach Sanou Firmin.

 “We have a young team that lacks experience but that will not handicap us to achieve a good turn and go as far as possible” announced the assistant coach of Burkina Faso.

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