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...

I'M PROUD OF STATUES I BUILT IN IMO STATE,THEY'RE INNOVATION-OKOROCHA. (PHOTO).


The immediate-past governor of Imo State, Senator Rochas Okorocha, has said the state was put on the map due to the statues his administration built at Heroes Square.


In a post on his official Facebook page witnessed by Native Reporters on Tuesday, Okorocha said he and his family have been under attack due to the false narratives and misconceptions that greeted the building of the square.


 “The statues are innovations that I’m proud of. The innovations put Imo State on the map.”


The former governor said before he came into government, if an Imo citizen staying in America were to describe his state, he would cite its proximity to Rivers State because the state never had an identity.

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