New trends emerge in Nigeria’s banditry menace as rising number of women enroll in gunrunning
The most recent Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) shows that 80 per cent of people in north-west Nigeria are poor. Although the MPI doesn’t disaggregate by gender, women bear the brunt of poverty in Nigeria. Most women in the country’s rural north depend on subsistence farming for food and income, and comprise the bulk of people experiencing poverty in rural communities.
Americans brace for ‘Eris’ vaccine as experts, analysts predict low uptake of Covid subvariant jab
Some public health experts hope that Americans will welcome the new shot as they would a flu jab. But demand for the vaccine has dropped sharply since 2021 when it first became available and more than 240 million people in the US or 73 per cent of the population, received at least one shot.
Republican presidential aspirant Alycia Barnard prepares to break tradition of GOP ignoring Africa
In a follow up WhatsApp message, she shed more light on her activities: “I’m the owner of Alycia Worldwide Inc in Saint Cloud, Florida. Our mission is to help women and children globally. (We have) setup small business in the United States through my consulting firm Alycia’s Consulting Firm. I am a CEO of 3 companies. I am an external CEO for other construction companies. I am the CEO of US Doors Direct that I co-own with my husband.”
History repeats itself: Just as revolutions eat their own children, Ugandan political parties are in self-annihilation
More recently, the infiltration of the opposition parties by the ruling party NRM using money as the tool with which to divide them and deplete them of their memberships and leaderships has gained currency. We have seen top leaderships of the oldest parties – DP and UPC – giving in to NRM via what they have called cooperation agreements with the Movement.
Beware, the red meat allergy caused by lone star tick is a serious health concern that has no cure
It’s common for health reports of “new” health risks to go viral, which has been true of late for tick-induced meat allergies. An internet news search returned more than 13,000 page hits for “alpha-gal syndrome” in the 30 days prior to this writing — nearly as many as a search on “breast cancer.
