FAMILY AND NEIGHBORS MOURN WOMAN SHOT BY ICE AGENT AFTER MAKING MINNEAPOLIS HER HOME. (PHOTO).
Family and neighbors mourn woman shot by ICE agent after making Minneapolis her home Before she was fatally shot by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer, 37-year-old Renee Good had just dropped her youngest child off at an elementary school in Minneapolis, the city she and her family had recently begun to call home. As Trump administration officials continued Thursday to describe Good as a domestic terrorist who tried to ram federal agents with her Honda Pilot, those who knew her remembered someone very different: a gentle, kind, and openhearted mother, wife, and neighbor. Good, her wife and her 6-year-old son had recently moved from Kansas City, Missouri, to a quiet Minneapolis neighborhood lined with older homes and small apartment buildings. Some front porches were still decorated with pride flags and lingering holiday lights. In the days following her death, neighbors grew weary of media attention. One handwritten sign taped to a front door read, “NO MEDIA ...
Today tuesday,the Senate urged the Federal Ministry of Health and the National Centre for Disease Control {NCDC} to make meningitis vaccinations free in public healthcare facilities across the country.The resolution followed a motion titled: ''Outbreak of Meningitis and the Urgent Need to Curb its Spread & Stop Further Deaths'' sponsored by Senator Gbenga Ashafa and 16 other Senators.The Senate noted the outbreak of Cerebrospinal Meningitis in five States,while also stressing the need for an increase in the budget of the Federal Ministry of Health,on order to ensure that the Ministry and its parastatals are able to better fund healthcare-related activities in the country.The Senators also resolved that meningitis vaccinations should be made free across the country,citing the need for agencies of the federal government to continue to collaborate with the World Health Organization and UNICEF to make the scarce inoculations against meningitis readily available.Dr Abubakar Bukola Saraki,the Senate President,noted that with Lassa Fever,Cholera and Meninggitis outbreak in parts of the country,there was a need for increased coordination and funding for regular and specialized healthcare in the 2017 budget.He assured Nigerians that the Senate is prepared to promptly pass any supplemental appropriation request to combat disease outbreaks.
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