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 Dutch referee Rob Dieperink dies weeks after removal from World Cup officiating list Dutch referee Rob Dieperink has died at the age of 38, weeks after FIFA removed him from its list of officials for the World Cup. The Dutch Football Association (KNVB) confirmed his death in a statement, saying it was “shocked and deeply saddened” by the news. His cause of death has not been disclosed. Dieperink was arrested in April by the Metropolitan Police in the United Kingdom following a report of an alleged sexual assault involving a teenage boy in London. A Metropolitan Police spokesperson said officers responded on April 9 to a report of sexual assault at an address in Croydon and arrested a man in his 30s on suspicion of the offence. Police later said that after reviewing available evidence, including CCTV footage and digital devices, the investigation had concluded that “the evidential threshold had not been met” and no further action would be taken. Following the investigation, FIFA co...

COVID-19: FG WORRIES ABOUT RESURGENCE.(PHOTO).


COVID-19: Federal Government Worries About Resurgence 



The Federal Government of Nigeria has warned that there may be possible re-emergence of COVID-19 in the country if citizens fail to take adequate preventive measures.

Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, who sounded the warning yesterday, at a bi-weekly COVID-19 media briefing organised by the Health Promotion Department of the ministry in Abuja, expressed worry as another wave of the virus hit China and some parts of Europe, leading to renewed lockdowns.

He cautioned that it would be disastrous to let down guard as the pandemic could flare up in the country, saying that re-emergence from country to country despite the high uptake of vaccines still comes as a surprise, and enjoined Nigerians to desist from non-essential crowding and to continue to apply non-pharmaceutical measures, like wearing of protective face masks, washing of hands, sanitising and being careful at all times.

Speaking on government's efforts toward aligning the rate of population growth with the rate of economic growth, the Minister said plans were underway to accelerate implementation of fertility control interventions, improve family planning and childbirth spacing to scale up meaningful control of the population growth rate and also support economic growth rate.

Dr Ehanire, maintained that government's priority is to improve the health indexes of the country, noting that the ministry cannot achieve it without the cooperation of the public especially the media, which he described as the interface between the government and the public.

He called for multi-national and multi-sectoral approaches to propelling the country towards attaining the universal health coverage and affirmed the ministry's commitment to restructuring the country's health sector in line with global best practices.

The health minister also disclosed that the federal government targets is to increase contraceptive consumption prevalence rate of 27% by the year 2030 and sustainably increase it to 65% by 2050 and called for multi sectoral partnership with the National Population Commission, NPC, and other stakeholders to enable the ministry achieve the intervention goals.

On her part, a Director from the Primary Health Care Agency, Dr Nneka Onwu, said the number of fully vaccinated people in Nigeria stands at over 14 million, adding that currently, the total number of doses of COVID-19 vaccine in the country is 74 million.


 

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