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...

AREWA QUIT NOTICE: APGA URGES NDIGBO TO DUMP APC.

No automatic alt text available.                           Anambra State Online is claiming that The All Progressives Grand Alliance {APGA} has called on Igbo politicians to dump All Progressive Congress {APC}. APGA made this call in a Town Hall meeting that took place in Idemili North Local Government Area of Anambra state.The party said there is no point for the Ndigbo politicians remaining in the APC since it is controlled by Hausa.The All Progressives Grand Alliance {APGA} has urged Igob politicians to dump All Progressives Congress {APC} for APGA,''which symbolises the late Biafra war lord,Chief Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu''.It was gathered that since Arewa youths have asked Igbo in the north to go to their place of origin,APGA urged Igbo people to make sure that they denounce the ruling party which they the major stakeholder are Northerners.It was learnt that this was made known in a Town Hall meeting that took place in Idemili North local government area of Anambra state.
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