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...

TINUBU SIGNS INTO LAW BILL RAISING JUDGES’ RETIREMENT AGE.(PHOTO).


TINUBU SIGNS INTO LAW BILL RAISING JUDGES’ RETIREMENT AGE


President Bola Tinubu has assented to the 1999 Constitutional Amendment Bill pertaining to the retirement age of judicial officers in Nigeria.

The Director of Information to the President, Abiodun Oladunjoye, who made this known in a statement on Thursday said Tinubu signed into law the “Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (Fifth Alteration) (No. 37), 2023,” presented by the outgoing 9th National Assembly.

With the enactment of the amendment bill, the retirement age of High Court judges has been raised from 65 to 70 years.

It also implies that judicial officers’ retirement age and pension rights have been effectively brought into uniformity, among other related matters.

While signing the amendment bill into law, Tinubu pledged his administration’s commitment to strengthening the judiciary, ensuring the rule of law, and empowering judicial officers to execute their responsibilities effectively.


 

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