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Mozambique’s state-owned fuel distributor, Petromoc

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Mozambique’s state-owned fuel distributor, Petromoc

Mozambique’s state-owned fuel distributor, Petromoc, has denied links to an oil spill that happened over the weekend at the port of Pemba, off the coast of Cabo Delgado province.

The company’s board chairperson Hélder Chambisse said there was little information about the origin of the fuel found at sea.

He said that if the company was responsible, the local authorities would have informed them.

Mr Chambisse said investigations were ongoing to find out the origin and reason for the spillage.

It was estimated that the spillage caused the loss of at least 10,000 litres of fuel.

The incident attracted large crowds, including women and children, who risked their lives as they filled their jerrycans with the fuel.

Police were deployed to address the situation.

Jigawa to Immunize 1.7m Children against Polio

Olasunbo Okoromi
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Jigawa to Immunize 1.7m Children against Polio

The Jigawa State Primary Health care Development Agency (PHCDA) said, it has targeted about 1.7 million children for inoculation against polio in the second round immunisation campaign in the state.

The Executive Secretary of the agency Dr. Kabir Ibrahim stated that adequate personnel had been deployed to facilitate smooth conduct of the exercise across the state.

“The gesture was to ensure that all children less than five years old were immunised against the disease.

“The agency had received enough Oral Polio Vaccines (OPVs) to facilitate the successful conduct of the exercise.

“Parents should co-operate with immunisation officials for a hitch-free exercise,” Ibrahim said.

According to him, such co-operation will facilitate a quick response in combating the disease and address other emergency situations in the state.

The Secretary, who sought the support and co-operation of community and religious leaders as well as other stakeholders for the smooth conduct of the exercise, urged parents to present their wards for the immunisation at designated centres.

Ethiopia’s Tigray crisis: Rebels vow to fight on until blockade ends

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Ethiopia’s Tigray crisis: Rebels vow to fight on until blockade ends

The commander of the rebel group in Ethiopia’s northern region of Tigray has told correspondents they will continue fighting until their terms for a ceasefire are met.

Gen Tsadkan Gebretensae said the group aims to force the federal government to lift a blockade in the region and agree to a political solution to the crisis.

The government has not reacted to the rebel’s conditions.

Thousands have been killed since war broke out in November last year.

Millions of people have also been displaced by the fighting which both sides have been accused of committing human rights abuses and war crimes.

At least 400,000 people are living in famine conditions, according to a UN estimate, with access to the region still being hampered. UN World Food Programme lorries did manage to reach Tigray at the weekend after a long delay because of security concerns.

Despite the government announcing a unilateral ceasefire in June after the rebels made significant gains, including the recapture of the region’s capital, Mekelle, it has continued to mobilise militia from other parts of the country to help stall the rebels’ advance in neighbouring Afar and Amhara regions.

Moroccan athlete ends Kenya’s dominance in the 3,000-meters steeplechase

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Moroccan athlete ends Kenya’s dominance in the 3,000-meters steeplechase

Soufiane el-Bakkali of Morocco won the 3,000-meter steeplechase to end more than 40 years of Kenyan Olympic dominance.

El-Bakkali won in 8 minutes, 8.90 seconds on a wet track at the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo. He finished well clear of Lamecha Girma of Ethiopia, who took the silver.

Benjamin Kigen claimed bronze for Kenya after Ethiopia’s Getnet Wale, who was third heading to the final straight, fell. Wale struggled back to his feet and clung on for fourth.

The 25-year-old el-Bakkali was fourth at the last Olympics in Rio de Janeiro and on the podium at the last two world championships, but this was his first major title.

Kenya had won nine straight Olympic golds in the 3,000 steeplechase since 1980. Kenya’s Conseslus Kipruto, the leading star of the steeplechase, didn’t defend his Olympic title in Tokyo after failing to make the Kenyan team at the national trials.

Doctors in Nigeria’s state-run hospitals have began a strike over pay

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Doctors in Nigeria’s state-run hospitals have began a strike over pay

Doctors in public hospitals in Nigeria began Monday a strike to protest against the non-payment of salary arrears and lack of resources in hospitals as the country, faces a third wave of coronavirus.

This strike, the latest in a series of medical staff work stoppage is led by the National Association of Interns (Nard), which represents 40% of doctors in Nigeria.

The union is asking the government to honor its promise to pay compensation to the families of doctors who died while fighting the coronavirus.The association says Nigerian doctors were ill-equipped and under-funded for the job while the facilities in state-run hospitals “are deplorable”.

Nigeria, a country of 200 million people, had 42,000 registered general practitioners in 2019, according to the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), or two doctors for about 10,000 people.

Nigeria’s idle gas projects can leverage $53trn fund

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Nigeria’s idle gas projects can leverage $53trn fund

In a world where funding for fossil fuel investment is waning, global Environmental Social and Governance (ESG) fund projected to hit $53 trillion by 2025 can present a system of autarky for over billion dollars’ worth of idle clean energy projects stranded across Nigeria.

Across the world, investors are now shifting attention from traditional funds to sustainable funds like ESG investing or strategies that consider a country’s environmental, social and governance ratings alongside traditional financial metrics.

For a country with proven gas deposits of 206.53 trillion cubic feet, most asset managers say the ESG initiative can be an escape path for many of Nigeria’s clearer energy projects, many of which are mired in obscurity due to paucity of funds.

They say the ESG initiative can breathe an air of fresh ideas to projects such as the $20 billion Brass LNG project in Bayelsa State; the $9.8 billion Olokola LNG in Ogun; the 5000km Nigeria-Morocco offshore gas pipeline, which in the current market price would cost an estimated $20 billion.

A report by Bloomberg shows ESG funds recorded the highest flows last year, and by 2025, ESG investing is projected to reach $53 trillion in assets. This equates to roughly a third of all investment assets under management.

Simone Biles To Return To Olympics For Final Event

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Simone Biles To Return To Olympics For Final Event

American gymnast Simone Biles returned to the olympics on tuesday for the last leg of the competition. Biles had dropped out on the grounds of mental health after faring less than expected, doing a 1.5 twist on an “amanar” instead of the 2.5 and landing in a stumble.

Biles, who was expected to be one of the headliners of the Tokyo games bidding for six gold medals huddled up with her coach and teammates right after and decided to pull out of the competition. A day later, she pulled out of the individual all-round final and on saturday, she also withdrew from the vault and uneven bars medal events.

Simone was however in the stands to watch teammate Sunisa Lee become the fifth consecutive American to win the Olympic title, as well as the event finals for vault, uneven bars and floor exercise.

Biles came to Tokyo as the biggest star of these Olympics, projected to win a record five gold medals but developed a case of the “twisties”- a loss of air awareness that can have catastrophic consequences for a gymnast.

After the event, Biles told reporters: “I just don’t trust myself as much as I used to. I’m a little bit more nervous when I do gymnastics. I feel like I’m also not having as much fun.” She also mentioned experiencing the ‘twisties’. “They saw it a little bit in practice..having a little bit of the twisties,” she said

Her return was announced by a spokesperson for the USA gymnastics.

Don’t sack NYSC doctors, house officers, Medical Guild tells Lagos govt

Cleopatra Okohai
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The Medical Guild has implored the Lagos State Government not to remove medical doctors undertaking housemanship and National Youth Service Corps doctors from the state scheme of service.

The Medical Guild is the association of medical doctors under the employment of the Lagos state government.

Chairman of the Medical Guild, Dr. Oluwajimi Sodipo made the call at a press conference on Sunday in Lagos.

Sodipo said that the decision to remove the doctors was contained in a circular from the office of the state Head of Service dated July 12 and titled ‘Internship Programme in Public/Civil Service.’

According to him, the content of the circular is at variance with any known international best practice and will cause further uncertainty in the health sector.

“This circular has further heightened the uncertainty among young doctors and we have received countless complaints from them on this issue,” he said.

He noted that the decision would further worsen the brain drain and manpower challenge confronting the state and country, adding that it was becoming difficult to attract medical graduates to residency training. 

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“At this point, we are combating the third wave of COVID-19, emerging medical challenges, monkeypox, cholera, communicable and non-communicable disease in the state.

“All policies should be to attract and encourage, particularly our young doctors,” he said. 

Sodipo said that the circular should be immediately withdrawn to allow for proper consultation, as it was yet to be implemented at the Federal or other states. 

He urged the state to uphold the commitment by the state Commissioner of Health and its counterpart in Establishment, Training and Pension that the circular would not affect the wages of medical doctors working as House Officers and NYSC doctors. 

Sodipo also appealed that the challenge of unresolved salary disparity between doctors working for the state government and their counterparts should be urgently resolved. 

He added that the disparity was contributing to attrition of doctors from the state service. 

Sodipo stressed that the Guild was duty-bound to protect the medical profession as enshrined in the Physician’s Oath and welfare of its members.

Lagos introduces app to monitor environment

Cleopatra Okohai
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Lagos introduces app to monitor environment

The Lagos State Government has inaugurated an online application known as Citi Monitor Application and Enterprise Environmental Monitoring Infrastructure Information System (Citi Monitor) to track and report environmental infractions in the state.

According to a statement on Sunday, the Commissioner for the Environment and Water Resources, Mr. Tunji Bello, while launching the application in Alausa, Ikeja, said the move was to boost the government’s cleaner city initiative through citizens’ participation.

Bello, who was represented by the Permanent Secretary, Office of Environmental Services, Mrs. Belinda Oduneye, said Citi Monitor would enable the government to have a wide reach in monitoring and responding to environmental infractions as reported by residents.

He said, “This app will maximise the reach of the government using the large population of Lagos; it will help us to better report the state of the environment from blockage of our canals to indiscriminate waste dumping and every other infraction.

“I want to encourage residents to avail themselves of the opportunity of downloading the application as it will help them to take ownership of the environment of the state as the citizens are the primary custodians,” he added.

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Also, the software developer, Mr. Ayodeji Faniran, said the Citi Monitor app was configured to capture real-time images within the Lagos metropolis only.

“You cannot upload pictures from your gallery, you cannot submit pictures from other parts of the country or the world, only pictures from Lagos state can be submitted, and once you click the picture anywhere in Lagos state, it’s going to have the time stamp and the location.”

PCN Seals 301 Medicine Shops in Abia State

Olasunbo Okoromi
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PCN Seals 301 Medicine Shops in Abia State

Pharmacists Council of Nigeria (PCN) said it has sealed 301 medicine shops in Abia State as a result of poor storage conditions to unauthorized sale of substances of abuse.

The Register of PCN, Dr. Elijah Mohammed said the sealing of the premises was a result of a collaborative enforcement exercise carried out with officers of the Department of State Services (DSS) in Umuahia, represented by the director of enforcement, Stephen Esumobi.

He said the PCN enforcement team visited 394 premises made up of 44 pharmacies and 350 patent medicine shops.

Out of the premises visited, 14 pharmacies and 287 patent medicine shops were found to have committed offences ranging from operating without registration with PCN, poor documentation, poor storage conditions to unauthorized sale of substances of abuse, while one outlet was issued compliance directive.

“Most of the sealed premises don’t have appropriate storage facilities, thus exposing medicines to adverse environmental factors that degrade and make them unsuitable for human consumption.

“These illegal outlets do not have pharmacists to supervise the dispensing of medicines to the public which has contributed to irrational dispensing of medicines, resulting to treatment failures.” He added.

The PCN registrar informed that the enforcement exercise was one of the objectives of the new National Drug Distribution Guidelines to ensure that medicines remain safe, effective and of good quality as they transit from one level of the distribution chain to another.

Mohammed said before the commencement of the current enforcement exercise which is nationwide, the PCN held meetings with concerned stakeholders at various levels to sensitize them on the need to comply with regulations.

The PCN said the exercise will continue in other parts of the state in the coming week.

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