GUINEA-BISSAU STOPS VACCINE STUDY FUNDED BY TRUMP ADMINISTRATION. (PHOTO).

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 Guinea-Bissau stops vaccine study funded by Trump administration Guinea-Bissau's foreign minister has said his government has stopped a study funded by the Trump administration aiming to evaluate side effects of the life-saving hepatitis B vaccine, including any links to autism. The West African country, one of the region's poorest, has high rates of hepatitis B, and the prospective study had drawn an outcry from scientists and international health bodies because only half the newborns in the trial would get the vaccine at birth. World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus said it was not ethical. Guinea-Bissau last month suspended the trial pending an ethical review. Critics had said it was being used to test theories linking vaccines to autism, long promoted by U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr but contradicted by scientific evidence. Foreign Minister Joao Bernardo Vieira said in an interview on Tuesday that the study had been closed, citing concer...

CHAOS AT THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY AS AMINU TAMBUWAL,WAS REFUSED ENTRY INTO THE HOUSE TODAY.

                The man flying the fence is identified as Hon.Kawu Suleiman,Deputy minority leader,was pictured today jumping the fence at the National Assembly.It has been confirmed today by Lai Mohammed,the spokesperson for the All Progressive Congress APC to the press at their secretariat in Abuja that security operatives have prevented the Speaker of the House of Representatives,Aminu Tambuwa,from gaining entrance into the National Assembly complex.He said ''I spoke with Speaker Aminu Tambuwal five minutes ago and he confirmed to me that he has been locked out of the National Assembly complex at the second gate.Tambuwal is disallowed from entering the complex,his deputy Emeka Ihedioha is already in the Chamber.The Speaker reconvene the House at the instance of the President who wrote a letter to the Speaker asking for an extention of the state of emergency in three states and now his being ambushed and not allowed in.It is a sad development for our country.There must be limit to impunity and we are being ridiculed in the eyes of the world''.Witnesses said when Tambuwal was later stopped at the third gate,and was finally allowed in after a prolonged argument with security operatives,Law makers came out of the Assembly,overpowered the security and damaged the third gate to allow the speaker in.The police fired teargas and some of the lawmakers fainted after inhaling the teargas.More photos below.                             

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