“NO ELECTRICITY, NO VOTE,” SOUTH AFRICANS THREATEN TO SHUN RULING PARTY ANC. (PHOTO)

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 “No electricity, no vote,” South Africans threaten to shun ruling party ANC Residents in Katlehong, a township outside Johannesburg, have resolved to boycott South Africa's upcoming local elections on November 4 due to long-standing failures by authorities to provide basic services like electricity. For over 20 years, around 180 households in the community have relied on illegal electrical connections pulled from neighboring areas to power their homes. Angry over the lack of formal grid infrastructure, residents are directing their frustration at the ruling African National Congress (ANC). "We have made a collective decision: no electricity, no vote," said community leader Lesiba Rankapole, 59. "We know it is illegal, but we had no choice because we cannot live without electricity. Our children cannot progress without electricity." "I was born ANC, but today I do not want anyone to tell me about the ANC because I am suffering," added 57-year-old resid...
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MEDICS PROFS.EMEGOAKOR,UMEONONIHU RE-ECHO BREAST/CERVICAL CANCERS CONSCIOUSNESS AS ANAMBRA WOMEN HOLD AUGUST MEETINGS. (PHOTO). #PRESS RELEASE.

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 Medics Profs.Emegoakor,Umeononihu Re-echo Breast/Cervical cancers Consciousness As Anambra Women Hold August Meetings


By Michael Ezenwata 


As women in Igboland converge to discuss domestic issues in their various August Meetings fora,a lot is expected of them to proffer solutions to endemic problems challenging families and the society.


A press statement in Awka by the Medical Director,El- Dorado Multi-Specialist Hospital ,  Awka Professor Chiemelu Emegoakor tasked them to focus attention on the reality of cervical cancer among them unarguably the second commonest cause of death among them after breast cancer which ranks number one.


According to the medical director,women should go for periodic checks to ascertain their breast/cervical cancers status in government approved health establishments.


He announced that for now,free vaccines are available nationwide in government's general hospitals and health centres for cervical cancer prevention where they can be administered.


To this end,Prof.Emegoakor urged women to take their young girls before their reproductive ages to the centres to get vaccinated to guarantee their cervical cancer free status.


 Going forward,the medical director used the forum to challenge women to deliberate on the incessant incidence of domestic violence in the society with a view to reducing the scourge.


He recommended tolerance, understanding and dialogue as measures towards tackling the menace 


In another message,an Obstetrician Gynae Oncologist, Nnamdi Azikiwe Teaching hospital Nnewi Campus Associate Prof.Osita Umeononihu also spoke of the availability of the vaccines in the general hospitals and health centres and advised women to take their young girls between the ages of 9 to 13 to get 2 doses of the vaccines to stay protected from contracting the virus.


Prof.Umeononihu further advised women up to the age of 30 to take seriously their personal screenings for the early detection of breast/ cervical cancers.


According to the medical expert, early detection is sine qua non to assured cure of the diseases.

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