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 For the first time ever, a woman has been cured of HIV. A woman dubbed the 'New York patient' by scientists at New York-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York City has defeated the virus after receiving a rare, but dangerous, stem-cell treatment. She is the fourth person to ever be cured of HIV - the previous three are all men - and experts have found two cases of women somehow beating the virus naturally. The woman was also a cancer patient, and received a treatment meant to combat both diseases at once - but is also so risky that it has been deemed 'unethical' to use it on people who do not have a late-stage cancer diagnosis. In order to perform this treatment, doctors must first find a donor who has a rare mutation that makes them resistant to the virus. A woman dubbed the 'New York patient' has become the first woman to be functionally cured of HIV after receiving a rare. but dangerous, stem cell treatment four year ago (file photo) Doctors t...

February 15, 2022 Press Statement PDP Condemns Gov. Ortom’s Harassment at Makurdi Airforce Base …Says Ortom, Benue People Can Never Succumb to Intimidation The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) strongly condemns the unrelenting onslaught of the Buhari-led All Progressives Congress (APC) government against Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State, the latest being the decision to lock the governor out of the Makurdi Airforce base where he had gone, upon formal invitation, to receive Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Saturday, February 12, 2022. The Party described the action as another vicious attempt by the APC to embarrass, harass, unsettle Governor Ortom and sustain the terrorization of the people of Benue State in the desperation to sequester their constitutional and ancestral heritage. It is instructive to note that Governor Ortom, upon formal invitation cancelled his official engagements to accord the Vice President, who landed at the Makurdi Airforce Base en route Taraba State the necessa...

  PRESIDENT BUHARI TO PARTICIPATE IN EU-AU SUMMIT IN BELGIUM  President Muhammadu Buhari will depart Abuja, today Tuesday, to join European and other African leaders as well as heads of multilateral organisations at the 6th European Union-African Union Summit in Brussels, Belgium. The Summit which holds February 17 – 18, 2022, will have the participants deliberate on themes currently affecting the world. Such areas of discussion include: Financing for Sustainable and Inclusive Growth; Climate Change and Energy Transition, Digital and Transport (Connectivity and Infrastructure); Peace, Security and Governance; and Private Sector Support and Economic Integration. Others are: Education, Culture and Vocational Training, Migration and Mobility; Agriculture and Sustainable Development and Health Systems and Vaccine Production. The Nigerian leader will use the opportunity of the meeting to have other bilateral engagements.   The President will be accompanied on the trip by ...

Two days in Gamboru: Zulum, Shettima share food, cash to 60,803 returnees … Zulum tells doctors Borno will match NGO pay Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum, alongside Senator Kashim Shettima were in the border town of Gamboru in Ngala Local Government Area, undertaking humanitarian responses, from Sunday to Tuesday. The leaders supervised and also got directly involved in the distribution of food and non-food items to a combined number of 60,813 internally displaced persons in camps and those resettled in communities.  Zulum and Shettima (who represents Borno Central where Ngala is located) traveled by road from Maiduguri on Sunday and on their first day in Gamboru, a total of 55,253 persons from Gamboru and Ngala towns received food and non-food items.  The beneficiaries comprised 39,903 women who each got 5,000 naira cash and a wrapper each, and 15,350 men, some of them married to the women, who also received 25kg of rice and 25kg of maize each. On the seco...

Revealed: N10.9Bn Properties Seized From Military Officer   Justice N.E. Maha of the Federal High Court on Monday February 14, ordered the final forfeiture of 24 properties held by fronts and proxies to a top military officer, to the Federal Government of Nigeria. The Order was pursuant to a forfeiture application by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, which had in May 2020 secured the forfeiture of the properties on interim basis. The court had ordered the publication of notices in national newspapers, inviting persons with interest in the properties to show cause why they should not be finally forfeited to the Federal Government of Nigeria. With no such interest shown by any entity, Justice Maha on Monday, February 14, 2022, ordered the final forfeiture of the properties to the Federal Government of Nigeria. The 24 properties scattered across Kano, Kaduna, Borno and Cross River States, comprise land, shopping complex, gas station and fuel stations cumulatively va...

Civil Servant Bags Two Years for Awarding Fake Contract in Bauchi Justice Muazu Abubarka of the Bauchi State High Court, Bauchi, Bauchi State on Tuesday, February 14, 2022 convicted and sentenced one Baba Suleiman Darazo, a chief driver with Bauchi State Judicial Service Commission and the Chairman of Bauchi branch of Amalgamated Union of Public Corporation Civil Service Technical and Recreation Employee (AUPCTRE), to two years imprisonment in a case of forgery and obtaining by false pretences. Darazo was alleged to have fraudulently obtained documents from the office and used same to print contract award letter to a company (Y.K Priority, a Subsidiary Company of Task System Limited) for the supply of 5,000 units of Laptop Computers to AUPCTRE, purporting it to have emanated from the Bauchi State Judiciary Service Commission.   

PRESS RELEASE FG TO ASSIST ACEN IN INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT Hon. Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu has said that FMSTI will work very closely with the Association of Consultant Engineers of Nigeria (ACEN) in areas of infrastructure and development for easy passage of goods and services in the country. Onu stated this when the Association for Consulting Engineering of Nigeria (ACEN) paid a courtesy visit in his office on Tuesday, in Abuja. The Minister said that one of the reasons why Executive Order 5 was initiated was to make sure that all Nigerian professionals will not depend on Expatriates rather be expatriates themselves, by leading other countries. He equally said that the essence of Executive Order 05 is to use our own professionals as our own expatriates in all infrastructural engagements in the country. He recalled that for the past five years, Nigeria has been leading a very silent revolution, depending on commodities which adversely affected our econom...

Zamfara Communities To Pay ₦9 Million, Contribute ₦6000 Each To Avert Attacks  Following negotiations with the terror group, the residents of the two communities agreed to pay N9million as against N40 million requested by the terrorists. They were given two weeks to get the money ready or face attacks. To avert the attack, they are contributing N6000, according to leaders who did not want to be named. “We sat and agreed to task ourselves, in fact, each and every one of us is to pay nothing less than N6,000 including wood breakers, street hawkers and shoemakers, and of course no matter how less or small is one’s business,” an elder in one of the communities told HumAngle. HumAngle learnt that a terror group led by Dullu Kachalla, one of the terror kingpins in the area, sent a message to Jangeru and Birnin Yero villages in Shinkafi Local Government Area of the state on Sunday, Feb. 13, to brace up for an attack after they failed to meet up with the tax payment.  

Young lady tell traffic officer she likes him & gifts him cash, rose A young Nigerian lady showed love to a Lagos traffic warden while he was on duty as she marked 2022 Valentine's Day The lady boldly approached the traffic warden, asking him to be her Val and expressed how she liked him To the man's surprise after he consented, she gave him Valentine rose as well as an undisclosed amount of money A young Nigerian lady left many people gushing as she appreciated the effort of a Lagos traffic officer in a special way. More photos below.   

What looks like a Mammy Water was sighted at Head Bridge River Niger Onitsha Anambra State few minutes ago. Hundreds of curious observers gathered to watch the spectacle. This is the first time a creature of this kind would be seen here. More photos below.