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The US government announced on Wednesday that 27 drugs will be subject to inflation penalties, which means that people on Medicare will pay less out-of-pocket starting April 1st, ranging from $2 to $390 per average dose. President Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act, which includes a provision that penalizes drugmakers for charging prices that rise faster than inflation for people with disabilities or age 65 and older on the government’s Medicare healthcare programme. “Beginning April 1, Medicare beneficiaries will pay lower coinsurance for Part B drugs whose prices rise faster than inflation,” said White House Domestic Policy Adviser Susan…

OpenAI announced on Tuesday that it is beginning to release a powerful artificial intelligence model known as GPT-4, paving the way for more competition between its backer Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) and Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google. OpenAI, the company behind the chatbot sensation ChatGPT, stated in a blog post that its latest technology is “multimodal,” which means it can generate content in response to both image and text prompts. The text-input feature will be available with a waitlist to ChatGPT Plus subscribers and software developers, while the image-input capability will remain a preview of its research. The eagerly anticipated launch foreshadows…

Ojo Akerele, 45, was detained by the Ondo State Police Command in the Idoani community of the state’s Ose Local Government Area for allegedly defiling a 10-year-old girl. This was revealed in an interview with journalists on Tuesday in Akure, the state capital police public relations officer Funmi Odunlami. She said, “A case of defilement was reported against one Ojo Akerele, 45, and he was subsequently arrested by security operatives. School bus driver defiles four-year-old pupil “The victim,10, was lured to an uncompleted building by the suspect where he had carnal knowledge of her after giving her N100. “The suspect…

The taxation of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) in Nigeria, according to the Global Health Advocacy Incubator (GHAI), is a win-win strategy for public health. In an interview on Tuesday in Abuja, Ms. Veronica Schoj, Vice President, Food and Nutrition, GHAI, made the observation. She added that combating dietary-related illnesses like diabetes, heart disease, and obesity was also a matter of public health. “Drinking sugary drinks increases the likelihood of being overweight and excessive sugar intake causes increased risk of diabetes, liver and kidney damage, heart disease and some cancers. “So, taxing sugary drinks to increase their prices are effective ways to…

The Department of State Services (DSS) has been questioned by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), which claims that Nnamdi Kanu is ill with heart problems and nutrient deficiencies. The group issued a statement on Tuesday through its spokesperson, Emma Powerful, challenging the DSS to disprove them by allowing Kanu’s doctor to treat him. Powerful also urged the general public to ignore one Adeyemi Olumide’s assertions that Kanu’s health condition is normal, noting that they are a cover-up. “A common sense question for the DSS is whether anyone is ever fine in their solitary confinement facility, especially someone they have…

Authorities in Pakistan have apprehended a gang involved in the illegal transplant of kidneys to wealthy foreigners, a practice that is flourishing in the impoverished country amid an economic crisis. On Monday night, police and health department rangers raided a hidden clinic in Rawalpindi, near Islamabad, arresting ten people, including doctors and nurses. According to Hassan Akhtar, head of the Punjab Human Organ and Transplant Authority’s team, three suspected donors and two recipients, one from Saudi Arabia and one from Afghanistan, were also arrested. The team’s leader, Akhtar, stated that more raids would be conducted on Tuesday to apprehend the…

Ifeoma Ossai, a 33-year-old single lady, has been arrested for the murder of her 50-year-old landlord, Monday Surulere Oladele, over a minor disagreement over the electricity bill. Ossai, who was said to be enraged during the argument, allegedly thrust both hands into her landlord’s private part and grabbed the manhood, pulling him unconscious to the ground. The landlord was immediately rushed to the State General Hospital Ota, according to Ogun Police spokesman Abimbola Oyeyemi, but a doctor on duty confirmed his death. According to Oyeyemi, a Deputy Superintendent of Police (SP), the suspect was apprehended after one Olaleye Taiwo reported…

Mr Mustapha Ahmed, Director-General of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), has expressed concern about the recent spate of fires in some communities and markets across the country. Ahmed, who expressed his concern in an Abuja statement on Monday, urged all stakeholders to use insurance companies to protect their property and businesses. He emphasized the importance of Nigerians reducing fire disasters and the associated human and material losses across the country. “Fire, like any other disaster, has been part of human existence, but the frequency and impacts of this in recent weeks has necessitated a serious concern and call for…

Chukwudi Ogbonna, the Accord Party candidate for the Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area Constituency 2 in the Rivers State House of Assembly in the March 18 election, has been kidnapped. Mr. Ogbonna was reportedly kidnapped on Monday night while driving in his car in Rumuigbo, near Port Harcourt, when gunmen forced him to stop and whisked him away in his car. Ifeaka Nwakiri, the candidate’s cousin’s brother, confirmed the incident to our correspondent on Tuesday morning. Rivers: Labour Party appoints Hilda Dokubo as chairman “They took him with his Mercedes car. We have reported the matter at the Kala Police station.”

According to the document seen by journalists, India plans to force smartphone makers to allow the removal of pre-installed apps and mandate the screening of major operating system updates under proposed new security rules. The new rules, the details of which have not previously been reported, could cause delays in the world’s No.2 smartphone market and result in business losses from pre-installed apps for players such as Samsung (005930. KS), Xiaomi (1810. HK), Vivo, and Apple (AAPL.O). India’s IT ministry is considering these new rules amid concerns about spying and abuse of user data, said a senior government official, one…