GUINEA-BISSAU STOPS VACCINE STUDY FUNDED BY TRUMP ADMINISTRATION. (PHOTO).
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...
Barely one month after launching the $2 billion Anambra Airport City Project at Umueri that would be funded and constructed from start to finish by the Chinese,Governor of Anambra State,Chief Willie Obiano,has sealed another business deal with the Golden Tulip Hotel Group,which is the third largest hospitality group in the world,with head offices in Switzerland.The latest agreement is over the management of the idyllic Agulu Lake Hotel Resort,which Obiano inherited from his predecessor,former Governor Peter Obi.The 100-room tourism showpiece is nestled in the verdant green slopes beside the famous Agulu Lake in Aniocha Local Government Area of the state.The agreement signing,which took place on the foregrounds of the hotel in Agulu,symbolised two important developments in Anambra State.In the first instance,it marked the entry of a major multinational player into the tourism and hospitality industry in the state and served as a signpost to the growing confidence of foreign investors in its local economy.Its second significance was that it left no one in doubt that Anambra's rating as Nigeria's safest state was not empty sloganeering.These two perspectives tell a compelling story of the emerging Anambra.Coming on the heels of the recent entry of the Chinese with an airport city project that promises to dwarf anything of its kind in all of West Africa,Anambra's intention of becoming a new,important destination in Nigeria is no longer in doubt.Speaking at the handover and agreement signing ceremony in Agulu on tuesday,the Governor applauded the arrival of the Golden Tulip Group as an important development in the history of the state.More photos below.

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