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...

NBA UDU BRANCH APPREHENDED A FAKE LAWYER IN DELTA STATE. (PHOTO).


 NBA Udu Branch Apprehends Fake Lawyer in Delta State


The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Udu Branch, Delta State, has captured Olubuwe Ossai Silas, who was impersonating Barr. Simon Sabuke. Silas was caught at Orugbo Plaza, Ovwian, attempting to forge legal documents using a scanned lawyer's seal.


The branch, led by David Omage Esq, subdued the suspect after a struggle and alerted the Ovwian Police Division. NBA Udu Chairman, Edmund Odohisi, assured that the case would be thoroughly investigated, reiterating the association's zero-tolerance policy for impersonation.


The suspect remains in custody as investigations proceed.

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