Dapo Adelegan has emerged the governorship candidate of the African Democratic Congress in Ondo State.
The Chairman, Electoral Matters of ADC, Anayo Arinze, described the party’s primary as peaceful while appreciating four aspirants who stepped down for Adelegan to fly the party’s flag in the forthcoming October 10 governorship election in the state.
This was contained in a statement signed by the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Yemi Kolapo |||READ MORE
Norway's Arctic archipelago Svalbard on Saturday recorded its highest-ever temperature, the country's meteorological institute reported.
According to scientific study, global warming in the Arctic is happening twice as fast as for the rest of the planet.
For the second day in a row, the archipelago registered 21.2 degrees Celsius (70.2 Fahrenheit) in the afternoon, just under the 21.3 degrees recorded in 1979, meteorologist Kristen Gislefoss told AFP |||READ MORE
If a beauty product is truly that good, price shouldn't matter (well, within reason).
Because, although there are many fabulous expensive products on the market, we will guarantee that there are plenty of chemist bargains that are just as good, if not better.
Today, we're going to prove that.
Here you'll find 50 women sharing their favourite beauty product that's 10 times better than their expensive ones. Some shared their favourite face moisturiser, while others insisted on their must-have mascara |||READ MORE
There are a lot of risks involved with eating in a restaurant. Not sitting far enough away from other people or sitting inside, waiting for your table inside, and not wearing a mask all increase the risk of the coronavirus spreading.
With the number of cases hitting 4 million recently, some dining rooms are closing again to keep customers as well as workers safe. Servers come into contact with multiple people at a time while at work, including other servers, chefs, and customers. This means they are more susceptible to catching the virus that travels through the air in droplets. Being outside helps, as does not giving out plastic menus and keeping buffets closed.
But servers, hosts, and bartenders spend time around lots of people. Some of them could carry the virus and not know it. They have to interact with people in the back and the front. Sometimes they might not be able to stay six feet away from others |||READ MORE
The global effort to produce useful anti-Covid medicines is being hampered by the US because researchers are testing drugs in “an arbitrary, willy-nilly way”, the expert leading the UK’s programme has warned.
Britain’s Recovery Trial programme, which has involved 12,000 patients at several hundred British hospitals, has already pinpointed one promising new drug to tackle the disease and also highlighted two others – previously thought to be potential life-savers – as being useless.
But the failure of the US medical system to match this output has meant that other promising treatments that could have been cleared for widespread use have still to be evaluated. In particular, convalescent plasma (blood plasma that is taken from Covid-19 patients and which contains antibodies that could protect others against the disease) has still to be properly tested on a large-scale randomised trial |||READ MORE
Ghana's president has gone into self-isolation for two weeks as a precautionary measure despite testing negative for coronavirus, the government said, after one of his contacts was confirmed to have the illness.
President Nana Akufo-Addo began his quarantine on Saturday and will be working from the presidential villa in Accra, capital of the West African country, the information minister said in a statement.
"The president has elected to do so after at least one person within his close circle tested positive for COVID-19," the minister said |||READ MORE
A small group of visitors waits eagerly at the entrance to a single-storey building in Ghana's capital Accra, looking to explore the literary treasure inside.
This is the Library of Africa and the African Diaspora -- a passion project launched by Ghanaian-British writer Sylvia Arthur.
Based around Arthur's personal book collection, the library provides a remarkable opportunity to bring literature from the global black community to a country considered a cradle of African civilisation, and which was once a hub of the transatlantic slave trade |||READ MORE
Despite churches having a reason to smile about days after they were given a go-ahead to reopen, many worship places are still figuring out how they will begin their services.
In his address on Monday, July 6, President Uhuru Kenyatta spelt out stringent conditions in which chapels and mosques would operate upon resumption.
Uhuru allowed churches to reopen albeit under stiffer measures. Photo: State House.
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A spot check by TUKO.co.ke revealed most churches were ready to comply with the new directives and many of them also established a supplementary set of regulations to navigate the reopening with ease.
One such church is Buyangu Catholic Church, in Kakamega diocese which said it had laid out measures which would enable them to run their worship services without breaching the Ministry of Health containment measures |||READ MORE
Kenya will soon start negotiations on a second bilateral trade pact with the United Kingdom following its exit from European Union (EU).
The two countries have previously been trading through the EU. However, Kenya lost market access after Britain left the union in what was known as Brexit.
Under the EU, Kenya benefited from duty-free and quota-free market access to all member states for industrial and agricultural products, including beef, fish, dairy, cereals, fresh and processed fruits and vegetables |||READ MORE
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Zindzi Mandela, daughter of former South African president and liberation hero Nelson Mandela, has died, the spokesman of the ruling African National Congress (ANC) said on Monday.
Zindzi Mandela, whose mother was anti-apartheid activist Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, rose to international prominence when she read out Nelson Mandela's rejection of then-president P.W. Botha's offer for freedom in 1985.
State broadcaster SABC said the 59-year-old, who was serving as South Africa's ambassador to Denmark, died in a hospital in Johannesburg. It did not say why she had died |||READ MORE
A former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, has denied campaigning for the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), while serving as ex-President Goodluck Jonathan’s NSA.
Dasuki said this in a statement on Sunday titled, ‘I never campaigned for APC or Buhari as NSA to President Jonathan’.
He said, “The truth is that I was involved in an attempt at forging an alliance between the Action Congress of Nigeria, All Nigeria Peoples Party and the Congress for Progressive Change, among others, prior to the 2011 elections, which was not successful |||READ MORE
The Federal Government said it will review its air agreements with various countries as a result of the unacceptable treatment of Nigerian carriers.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, made this known via his verified twitter handle on Sunday following the denial of landing rights to Air Peace at London’s Heathrow Airport.
Onyeama, however, urged aggrieved Nigerians not to protest, but be grateful to Air Peace for providing alternative arrangements to ensure their successful evacuation in spite of the challenges |||READ MORE
Despite the coronavirus pandemic raving the country, medical doctors in Lagos state under the aegis of the Medical Guild are set to embark on a 3-day warning strike from Monday, July 13.
The action is being taken by doctors in the guild who are under the employment of the Lagos state government over issues that affect their safety and welfare.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the chairman of the guild, Dr. Oluwajimi Sodipo at a briefing also said doctors working in coronavirus isolation centres are exempted from the strike |||READ MORE
Private schools across the country have said they are ready to participate in the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) being conducted by the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) despite the stance of the federal government that no Nigerian school would participate in the exams.
The minister of education, Adamu Adamu, had announced that Nigerian schools would not participate in the (WASSCE) scheduled to hold from August 5 to September 5, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
But private schools across the country have differed with the ministry of education over the issue, Premium Times reported |||READ MORE
The Nigerian presidency has made its first official statement about the suspension of Ibrahim Magu, the former acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
Garba Shehu, a media aide to the Nigerian president in a statement on Saturday, July 11, said the allegations against Magu and other several other members of his staff prompted the investigation by the presidential panel into the affairs of the commission.
He said the former acting chairman was suspended to allow a transparent and unhindered investigation into the allegations made against him according to proper procedure |||READ MORE
At least five people are dead and more than 40 people arrested in South Africa Saturday following an attack at a church in Zuurbekom, a town in the Gauteng Province of South Africa.
Four people were found shot and burnt to death in a car while a fifth victim, a security guard, was also fatally shot, local authorities said.
The National Commissioner of Police General Khehla John Sitole said the quick response by authorities averted even more destruction and death |||READ MORE
The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), on Saturday urged African leaders to recommit themselves to reclaiming the continent from corruption.
According to a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, the President made the call in a letter he wrote to South African President, Cyril Ramaphosa, who is the Chairman of the African Union, in commemoration of the Anti-Corruption Day. The statement was titled ‘On Africa Anti-Corruption Day, President Buhari Calls for Operationailsation of Common Position on Assets Recovery.’
Buhari also urged African leaders to ensure the immediate actualisation of the Common African Position on Assets Recovery |||READ MORE
The World Bank and the French Development Agency for Nigeria has commended Niger State for the rehabilitation and maintenance of rural road network across 120 communities in the state.
In a letter of commendation addressed to Governor Abubakar Sani Bello, jointly signed by the World Bank Country Director for Nigeria, Mr. Shubham Chaudhuri and the Country Director of French Development Agency for Nigeria, Mr. Pascal Grangereau, the development partners rated the government of Niger State as the best in the Rural Access and Mobility Project (RAMP-2).
In the letter, the development partners noted that The physical and financial progress of RAMP 2 in Niger State is at 84 and 91 per cent while a total of 176km of roads has been rehabilitated in the state, including another 404km under rehabilitation, in addition to 29 river crossings, consisting of culverts and bridges, which have also have been constructed |||READ MORE
Alan Dolan couldn’t afford market research when he started out as a breathing instructor in 2005. Instead, he took soundings from London taxi drivers. “I’d tell them I taught people to breathe for a living – they’d be in hysterics and say: ‘What a great scam!’” says Dolan. Recently their reaction has changed: “Now they tell me about their sleep apnoea or their wife’s panic attacks, ask me how that relates to breathing and often download my app.”
Dolan, whose company is called Breathguru, teaches people to breathe deeply from their diaphragm, inhaling for longer than exhaling, without pausing between the two. He says this can, among other things, release stress, alleviate depression, tackle sleep issues, ease respiratory conditions, boost energy and the immune system and eject emotional baggage. Until Covid-19, his retreats in Lanzarote were, he says, fully booked. Such is the level of demand that Dolan has taught 24 trainees to lead sessions like his.
Other “breathwork” practitioners report similar surges in interest, YouTube and Instagram Stories are teeming with breathing courses, and publishers clearly agree it’s a wave worth surfing. Books called Breathe Well, The Power of Breathwork, The Breathing Book and Breathing for Warriors have already been publishedthis year. Still to come in 2020 are Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art, by James Nestor, Exhale, by Richie Bostock, AKA The Breath Guy, and The Wim Hof Method (see box) by Wim Hof |||READ MORE
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A subsidiary of Russian mining giant Norilsk Nickel said on Sunday that up to 20 tonnes of aviation fuel had leaked from its pipeline in the Arctic.
Arctic environment security has been in the spotlight at Nornickel's assets since another leak of 21,000 tonnes of diesel from Nornickel's power plant near the city of Norilsk on May 29.
"A pipeline owned by Norilsktransgaz was depressurized while pumping aviation fuel in the area of Tukhard settlement," Norilsktransgaz said in a statement |||READ MORE