The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC ) in Adamawa State has conducted a massive screening of secondary school students, teachers and other members of the general public for Hepatitis C and B as well as HIV /AIDS .
This was in addition to free consultation and administration of drugs to the beneficiaries.
The The exersice was undertaken by the Medical and Health Community Development Service (CDS) Group at General Murtala Muhammed College (GMMC), through their routine medical outreach in Jimeta , Yola in Adamawa State, North East Nigeria .
The outreach was flagged off by the Adamawa State Coordinator of the NYSC who was represented by the Head of Community Development Service (CDS) Branch, Mr. Sumla M Elisha.
According to the state coordinator, the free medical outreach is targeted at fighting the spread of Hepatitis B and C, particularly among Secondary School Students.
In his remarks, the Schedule Officer of the CDS Group, Mr. Ishaya S. Shingu, expressed great appreciation to the pharmaceutical companies including FIDSON, Drugfield and Greenfield that supported the medical outreach. He also commended the corps members for their sacrifice and selfless service to humanity which are the tenets of the NYSC scheme.
No fewer than 400 students, teachers and others benefited from the medical outreach.
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Duke of Cambridge, Prince William has announced 15 inaugural finalists for the Earthshot Prize, his global environmental award that aims to find new ideas and technologies to tackle climate change, air pollution and the Earth’s most pressing challenges.
The finalists include a 14-year-old student who proposes using solar energy to replace charcoal to power millions of roadside ironing carts in India; a land-based coral farm in the Bahamas to restore dying coral reefs; a community project in Congo devoted to protecting gorillas; and a Kenyan enterprise that turns organic waste into fertilizer and insect protein for farmers.
Five winners will be chosen next month from the 15 finalists, and each will receive a grant worth 1 million pounds ($1.4 million). In addition, 14 global companies and brands, including Microsoft, Unilever, Ikea and Walmart, have agreed to support and scale the ideas developed by the finalists.
“When we launched the prize last year, our ambition was to find the most innovative solutions to the world’s greatest environmental challenges,” William said in a pre-recorded video announcing the finalists.
He said the award received over 700 nominations this year, and that the ambition and quality of the submissions “should fill us all with optimism and hope that our goals for this decisive decade are achievable.”
William and his charity, The Royal Foundation, launched the Earthshot Prize last year, inspired by President John F. Kennedy’s 1962 “Moonshot” speech that challenged and inspired Americans to go to the moon.
QWilliam said he wanted to capture that “spirit of human ingenuity, purpose and optimism.”
The prize is billed as the most prestigious of its kind, with a 50 million-pound prize pot to be awarded to five winners every year until 2030.
One of the shortlisted candidates is Delhi-based Vidyut Mohan, who has developed a portable technology that rapidly converts crop residues that would otherwise be burned into bio-products like fuel and fertilizer.
Mohan, 30, said he was inspired to act after seeing the skies of his hometown engulfed with black smog from burnt agricultural and forest waste, putting his own family’s health at risk.
“It really felt nice that the problem that we are working on and mission that we are working on is now going to be projected on a global scale and the problem is going to be highlighted,” he said.
Teenager Vinisha Umashankar, also from India, wants to use solar energy to replace charcoal to power the millions of ironing carts used by street vendors pressing clothes daily on the roadside.
“Whatever suited people in the past doesn’t suit the present generation anymore, and it doesn’t suit our world situation anymore either,” said Umashankar, 14.
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) says it will soon deploy drones at Seme for effective patrol in checking smuggling activities in the border area.
NCS Zone A Coordinator, Modupe Aremu, an Assistant Comptroller General (ACG) of Customs, disclosed this on Monday during a working visit to Seme Border Area Command.
According to her, border management surveillance will be done electronically through the use of drones to ensure that there will be area overview of what is happening.
“Seme command visit is the end of my tour in Zone A and I must commend all the commands, they account for over 80 per cent revenue collection by the NCS and so they should keep up the good work.
“With the tour of all commands, I have seen that all the officers are doing well but they can still do better. And I am telling them that they should be expecting impromptu visits from the Zonal Coordinator, so they should not relax on the job.
“Also, e-customs’ N300 billion contract that is end-to-end automation that is about to kick-off is about Information and Communication Technology connectivity; when it comes on board, we are going to have electronic signature, drones patrolling the border,” she said.
She noted that the service was trying to minimize person to person contact to reduce human interaction and make the work faster and more efficient.
Aremu expressed satisfaction with the joint border post buildings that was commissioned on Oct. 23, 2018, noting that it ushered in an era of coordinated border management.
“This is one-stop-shop and from what the comptroller has shown me, it is what is practiced abroad; this is really commendable that what we see when we travel, we have it here in Nigeria,” she said.
She urged Seme Customs to keep abreast of all the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) protocols in order to understand what was happening.
On enforcement activities, she urged the command to keep pushing as the nation at this point in time needed the service to properly secure its borders.
She expressed the hope that the scanner at the border would start functioning to help simplify processes as much as possible.
She urged the command to ensure proper compilation of case files and prosecution of arrested suspects to show the seriousness of the service in fighting smuggling.
At least 5,500 people have been evacuated and at least 100 houses destroyed after Lava flowing from the Canary Islands’ first volcanic eruption in 50 years.
The flow of molten rock was expected to reach the coast later on Monday evening, potentially triggering more explosions, and the volcano itself would remain active for days.
The volcano erupted on Sunday, shooting lava hundreds of metres into the air, engulfing forests and sending molten rock towards the Atlantic Ocean over a sparsely populated area of La Palma.
No fatalities or injuries have been reported but drone footage captured two tongues of black lava cutting a devastating swathe through the landscape as they advanced down the volcano’s western flank towards the sea.
Authorities have not given an updated tally of how many properties have been destroyed since the head of La Palma’s local government gave an estimate of 100 early on Monday.
Regional leader Angel Victor Torres said the damage would be substantial.
In the meantime, Tourism Minister Reyes Maroto said the eruption was wonderful show which would attract more tourists. The comments were criticised by the opposition at a time when many residents hadlost their homes.
Swiss-French artist Saype (Guillaume Legros) presents his giant ephemeral landart painting entitled “World in Progress II” at UN Headquarters, New York.
The artwork, representing two children drawing and building with origami their ideal world, covers 11’000 square meters (118’000 sq ft) and is produced with biodegradable paints made from natural pigments such as charcoal and chalk.
It constitutes the second step of a project started at the U.N. European headquarters in Geneva in 2020.
The project is supported and gifted by Switzerland to the U.N. to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the organization.
Members of a local election commission count ballots at a polling station inside Kazansky railway terminal after polls closed during a three-day long parliamentary election in Moscow, Russia September 19, 2021. REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina
Opponents accused Russian authorities of mass fraud on Monday after the ruling United Russia party, which supports President Vladimir Putin, won a bigger than expected parliamentary majority.
With 99.9% of ballots counted, the Central Election Commission said United Russia had won nearly 50% of the vote, with its nearest rival, the Communist Party, taking just under 19%.
The scale of the victory means United Russia will have more than two-thirds of deputies in the 450-seat State Duma lower house of parliament. This will enable it to continue to push through laws without having to rely on other parties.
United Russia, a party that Putin helped found, had always been expected to win. Its most vociferous critics, allies of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, were prevented from taking part in the election after a court branded them extremists in June.
Pre-vote surveys had suggested that discontent over years of faltering living standards and corruption allegations would dent United Russia’s support. In the event, near final official results showed it securing around only 4% less than the last time a similar election was held in 2016.
The U.S. State Department said the election conditions had not been conducive to free and fair proceedings, Britain’s foreign ministry called the vote a setback for democratic freedom, and EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said the bloc noted reports of serious violations.
Up to 200 Communist protesters who felt cheated gathered for a demonstration in Moscow on Monday evening as police looked on.
Candidates opposed to United Russia in the capital had been ahead in more than half of 15 electoral districts, but all lost after electronic voters were added in.
Finance Minister Olaf Scholz, frontrunner in Germany’s election, canceled campaign events Monday to answer questions from lawmakers on Monday over an investigation of a unit of the country’s customs service that resulted in a recent police search at his ministry.
Scholz and his Social Democrats have raised questions over the necessity and motivation of the Sept. 9 searches at his ministry and the justice ministry, which also is run by his center-left party.
Outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel’s center-right Union bloc, which polls show trailing by a few points before Sunday’s election, has seized on the searches and on Scholz’s reaction to assail the candidate.
Opposition parties called a special meeting of parliament’s finance committee to discuss the matter and following criticism over reports that he likely would only testify by video link, Scholz appeared in person, canceling campaign events in Germany’s southwest.
Investigators are looking into suspected obstruction of justice by unidentified employees of the Financial Intelligence Unit, or FIU.
They say they have been investigating since last year because indications of possible money laundering from banks to the FIU weren’t passed on to police and judicial authorities.
The finance ministry ultimately oversees the unit, and says the suspicion of wrongdoing isn’t directed against its own employees. It says Scholz has reinforced the FIU since becoming finance minister in 2018, and that its head was replaced that year.
Opponents have long pointed to other events that have taken place on Scholz’s watch, such as the collapse last year of payment processing company Wirecard.
In Asia, South Korea’s automobile exports increased in August… marking the eighth consecutive month of growth.
The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy said the value of automobile exports increased by near 17 percent last month compared to the previous year, hitting three billion u.s. dollars.
The rise was largely backed by an increase in sales of eco-friendly cars which hit an all-time high.
They accounted for 23 percent of the total number exported.
Shipments of hydrogen cars soared 238 percent on-year, and electric vehicle exports jumped 91 percent.
French President Macron has asked Algerians who fought for France during Algeria’s war of independence for forgiveness.
He was heckled as he admitted France had failed in its duty to the group – known as the Harkis.
Many lived in poor conditions behind barbed fenced wires after the government refused to recognise their rights to stay in France, and those remaining in Algeria faced savage reprisals as collaborators.
Speaking to an audience of Harkis and their descendants in Paris, Macron promised legislation on reparations as well as a monument.
Monday’s speech marks the latest in a series of attempts by the French president to address historical grievances with Algerians in the hope of improving relations between the two countries, which have been fraught since Algeria’s independence in 1962.
In March, his government admitted its army tortured and killed a prominent Algerian activist more than 60 years ago.
Around 300 former Harkis – who derive their name from the Arabic word for movement – were invited to hear Macron speak, according reports.
During the speech Macron also outlined plans for a commission to hear about the squalid French camps former fighters and their children were forced to live in.
It is estimated that up to 200,000 Harkis fought for France during the eight-year war, but only 42,000 were allowed to relocate to France after Algeria gained independence, AFP reports.
Tens of thousands of those left in Algeria were labelled as traitors and killed.
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