Nigeria gets fresh prospects in ECOWAS, international trade

The upcoming handover of a $4.5 billion Seme border facility to Nigeria and the Republic of Benin has increased hopes of smoother trade across West Africa and with third party countries.

Man wins beer-drinking competition, dies of excessive vomitting

A Kenyan man, Mufutu Nyongesa, 25, from Tande village has died on Monday after drinking excessive amounts of alcohol on an empty stomach.
Nyongesa is said to have been drinking with friends at a local bar when they decided to have a competition. The prize was more alcohol for the one who managed to drink the most in the shortest time, reports

Complete List of Nominees For AFRIMMA 2018

It’s set time for the “Africa Muzik Magazine Awards & Music Festival” (AFRIMMA).
The list of the nominees of the 5th edition of the AFRIMMA has been released.
Nigeria is represented by Wizkid, Davido, Tekno and Tiwa Savage. To add to the spice, a new category AFRIMMA Achievers Award has been added.
The event will take place at the House of Blues, Dallas, Texas on the 7th of October.

Full list of APC senator defected to PDP

1.Rabi’u Kwankwaso (Kano-Central)
2. Dino Melaye (Kogi-West)
3. Adesoji Akanbi (Oyo-South)
4.Monsurat Sunmonu (Oyo-Central)
5.Rafiu Ibrahim (Kwara-South)

Oshiomhole vows to suspend Ngige from APC

Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State.

Chairman of the All Progressives Congress­ (APC) Adams Oshiomhole has vowed to expel Minister of Labour and Producti­vity Chris Ngige and Minister of State for Aviation Hadi Sirika from the party for failing to inaugurate the boa­rds of agencies under their ministries.

BREAKING:15 senators dump APC for PDP

FILE PHOTO: Nigeria’s Senate President Bukola Saraki speaks during an interview with Reuters in Abuja, Nigeria May 8, 2018. REUTERS/Paul Carsten/File Photo

Fifteen senators belonging to the ruling All Progressives Congress have said they were defecting to the opposition People’s Democratic Party.

PDP executive council meets over coalition with other parties

PDP Chairman, Uche Secondus. Photo: TWITTER/UcheSecondus

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Executive Committee (NEC) will today meet in Abuja to review issues arising from the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) it signed with 38 other political parties two weeks ago.
The Guardian gathered from the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) that the meeting would allow NEC to authorise the setting up of machineries leading to harmonisation of the ideas and suggestions that have been generated since the pact was signed.

Scientists record breakthrough in HIV, malaria vaccine

Scientists

Findings have shown that an experimental HIV-1 vaccine regimen is well-tolerated and generated comparable and robust immune responses against (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) HIV in healthy adults and rhesus monkeys.

Suspected cattle thieves ‘kill 26’ in Sokoto, Zamfara

Tenty-six people were killed in two days of violence blamed on cattle thieves in northern Nigeria, the National Emergency Management Agency said on Wednesday.

WHO lists sex addiction as mental illness

Couple having Sex PHOTO:AFP

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has listed sex addiction as a mental illness.
This is coming a month after it listed gaming as mental health disorder.
According to WHO, a person is addicted to sex when they show “persistent pattern of failure to control intense, repetitive sexual impulses or urges resulting in repetitive sexual behaviour.”
“It is a behaviour that tends to be hidden as it’s shameful and often sex addicts don’t come forward,” Dr. Valerie Voon of the Royal College of Psychiatrists told The Sun UK.

“The conflict must end”: Fighting threatens to drive up hunger in South Sudan’s lean season

© Provided by IRIN On Saturday, a new ceasefire came into effect in South Sudan. But within hours it had been violated – terrible news for millions of South Sudanese in the midst of their “lean season”, when food stocks are low and heavy rains can arrive suddenly, washing out roads and links to lifesaving assistance.

July marks the peak of the hunger gap, when harvests are depleted just as new crops are planted. Without food distributed by aid groups, an estimated 7.1 million people – more than half the population – would go hungry. Continued conflict makes humanitarian access to many areas extremely difficult, as well as being deadly and disruptive for civilians.

Rampaging fake agents threaten fledgling confidence in insurance

President of ARIAN, Gbadebo Olamerun

• ARIAN admits only 7,000 are registered
The renewed campaign to rev up public confidence in the troubled insurance sector may amount to mere “dress rehearsal”, with no fewer than 13,000 fake insurance agents soliciting policies in the midst of few registered ones.

Benue killings: We’re considering changing our settlement pattern – Shuluwa

© Sodiq Adelakun/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images File Photo-A funeral ceremony held for the victims who lost their lives after violence… In this interview, a First Class Traditional Ruler in Benue State, Chief Abu King Shuluwa says the Tiv people are seriously considering changing their settlement pattern as a way of finding lasting solution to the incessant attacks and killings of the people by marauding herdsmen. Shuluwa who is in charge of Sankera axis (Tor Sankera) noted that the attackers had an agenda to take over the land and occupy same. He also spoke on other salient issues affecting the state.