NORTH KOREA FIRED SEVERAL BALLISTIC MISSILES INTO THE SEA. (PHOTO).

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 North Korea fired several ballistic missiles into the sea Monday, South Korea’s military said, hours after South Korean and U.S. troops kicked off their large annual combined drills, which the North views as an invasion rehearsal.  South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said the missile firings, North Korea’s fifth missile launch event this year, were detected from the North’s Hwanghae province but gave no further details such as how far they flew.  Earlier Monday, the South Korean and U.S. militaries began their annual joint military exercises, which are scheduled to last 11 days. The Freedom Shield command post exercise began after the South Korean and U.S. militaries paused live-fire training while Seoul investigates how two of its fighter jets mistakenly bombed a civilian area during a warm-up drill last week.  The drills' start drew the condemnation of nuclear-armed North Korea, which issued a government statement calling the exercises a “dangerous provocative act...

UNFPA TO INTRODUCE ''HUSBAND'S SCHOOL'' IN NIGERIA.

                  According to PM News,Prof Babatunde Osotimehin,the Executive Director,UN Population Fund {UNFPA},says a Husband's School will be introduced in Nigeria to boost access to family planning and other reproductive health services.The excutive director made this known during an interactive session with the media in Abuja today wednesday.Osotimehin said he is in Nigeria to work with the Federal Government through its vatrious agencies looking at human developmemt through the intervention of family planing.He said ''I am talking about human development in the broad sense because most people restrict family planning to the context of saving the mother's life.Saving the mother's life component of family planning is also important,but family planning goes far beyond saving mother's life''.He explained the concept of the husbands school,which started in Niger Republic,was now replicated in many parts of Africa.He said a mentor would talk to the men over a certin period of time and talk more about the welfare of women and adolesecent girls.We have later observed that the women stated going to antenatal clinics,women have safe deliveries at centres,we also found that many women take their children to hospitals and centres where they get proper advice on immunisation,malaria infections,diarrhoea diseases and other childs survival interventions.Our indicators show a significant increase in the uptake of family planning services''.Osotimehin said the men were happy because they realised that the lecture they received had led to the reduction of infant and maternal mortality.He said the organisation would replicate the school in other African countries,stressing that it is something we do under the tree in a village.According to him,there is a template which UNFPA Nigeria can adopt and use.''UNFPA will work with the government to ensure that we raise this considerably and make sure Nigerians understands the centrality of family planning as a human development intervention''.

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