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A Family Planning Consultant, Mr Appolonia Eke, has warned against the use of sex dolls as alternative family planning method, saying it is sodomy. Eke, who is also the Financial Secretary, Public Health Sustainable Advocacy Initiative (PHSAI), made this known on Thursday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos. According to Wikipedia, Sodomy is generally anal or oral sex between people or sexual activity between a person and a non-human animal (bestiality), but it may also mean any non-procreative sexual activity. “Originally, the term sodomy, which is derived from the story of Sodom and Gomorrah…

Former Nigerian president, Olusegun Obasanjo on Thursday said he would cease from being a member anytime the Coalition for Nigeria Movement (CNM) decides to join partisan politics. Obasanjo disclosed this when he officially registered as a member of the CNM at the NUJ secretariat, Abeokuta, the capital of Ogun state. “I am happy to be a member of the Coalition for Nigeria Movement which is a movement for good governance. “This is the commencement for our popular and grassroots association. “The membership will be free to collectively decide on whether it will become a political party and if it decides…

Two teenage students have been shot at a Los Angeles school, and police say that a 12-year-old girl is in custody and her weapon has been seized. The gunfire broke out at 08:55 local time (16:55 GMT) at Salvador Castro Middle School in the Westlake District. A 15-year-old boy who was shot in the head is in “critical but stable” condition, and a girl, 15, was shot in the wrist, officials say. Three others, aged 11 to 30, suffered minor injuries, police say. The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) confirmed to the BBC the female is 12 years old. A…

Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo has ordered the immediate release of N100 million as first tranche payment for the procurement of equipment to fight Lassa fever. Obaseki said the fund would be used to purchase four dialysis machines, ventilators, personal protective equipment, drugs and other consumables required for the treatment of Lassa fever patients. This was contained in a statement made available to journalists on Thursday in Benin by Mr Crusoe Osagie, Special Adviser to the governor on Media and Communication Strategy. According to the statement, the governor’s order followed report of the rising number of patients brought from across…

Hameed Ali, the Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), has dissolved the 2017 compliance team and replaced it with a strike force. Mr Joseph Attah, the Public Relations Officer of the Service, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Abuja. He said the strike force team would be posted to the four zonal offices of the Service in Lagos, Kaduna, Bauchi and Port Harcourt. According to Attah, the strike force can also use the Customs training colleges as their base. He said that part of the mandate of the strike force was to check…

Mr Moses Banka, a politician and businessman from Sanga Local Government Area of Kaduna State, has been assassinated by unknown gunmen. Banka was reportedly killed at Ankwa village of Jema’a Local Government Area in Kaduna state. Alhaji Yusuf Usman, the Administrator of Jema’a Local Government Council, confirmed the incident to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Kafanchan. He said that the deceased was assassinated on Wednesday night at his residence in Ankwa village in Godogodo Chiefdom of Jema’a. “The assassins stormed the residence and headed straight to his room and shot at him without hurting anyone before…

Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje of Kano state has said that his government allocated 13 percent of its 2018 budget to the health sector as part of deliberate attempts to improve quality health care services. The government allocated N9.7 billion to the health sector this year for infrastructural development andto promote preventive health care along with curative intervention, in collaboration with development partners. Governor Ganduje stated this in a video teleconference for the 2017 health program year, which set out to revise the goals and objectives as well corresponding progress made since the commencement of the government’s tripartite agreement on health,…

The final of the African Nations Championship (CHAN), holding in Morocco, will be broadcast live on DStv and GOtv from 8pm on Sunday. The match will see the home-based Super Eagles play hosts, Morocco, at the Stade Mohammed V. Nigeria face the Atlas Lions, who breezed their way through the group stages, thrashing Mauritania by four goals in the tournament’s opening fixture, beating Guinea 3-1 and ending the group stages with a goalless draw against Sudan. They then beat Namibia 2-0 in the quarterfinals and edged past Libya 3-1 in the semi-finals. They will have the benefit of vociferous home…

Boko Haram jihadists killed at least five woodcutters in northeast Nigeria, in the latest attacks against civilians in the violence-hit region, local civilian militia told AFP on Thursday. The attack happened on Tuesday in Ajeri village, near the town of Dikwa, some 90 kilometres (55 miles) east of the Borno state capital, Maiduguri, said Ibrahim Liman, from the Civilian Joint Task Force (CJTF). “They came across nine Boko Haram gunmen in twos on three motorcycles who opened fire, killing five of the loggers,” Liman said. Four others were injured in the attack. Soldiers were attracted by the sound of gunfire…

Nigeria raised 252.88 billion naira ($827 mln) at a treasury bill auction on Wednesday as investors piled demand into the higher yielding one-year debt, traders said on Thursday. The central bank sold 177.22 billion naira of one-year debt at a rate of 13.7 percent. It auctioned 6.09 billion naira of three-month debt at 12 percent, and 69.57 billion naira of six-month maturity debt at 13.65 percent. Total subscription stood at 355.2 billion naira. Traders said some offshore funds participated at the auction, helping boost dollar liquidity on the currency window for investors to keep naira rates stable. The bank has…