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Dr. Li Wenliang*, China's hero doctor who was punished for telling the truth about Corona Virus and later died due to the same disease, had documented casefiles for research purposes and had in the casefiles proposed a cure that would significantly decrease the impact of the COVID - 19 Virus on the human body. The chemical * Methylxanthine *, * Theobromine * and * Theophylline * stimulate compounds that can ward off these virus in a human with atleast an average immune system. Whats more shocking is that these complex words that were so difficult for people in China to understand is actually called * Tea * in India, YES, our regular Tea has all these chemicals already in it.  The main Methylxanthine in tea is the stimulant caffeine. Other Methylxanthines found in tea are two chemically similar compounds, Theobromine and Theophylline. The tea plant creates these chemicals as a way to ward off insects and other animals. Who would have known that all the solution to these ...

OFFICE OF THE VICE PRESIDENT PRESS RELEASE   IN STRONG RECOMMENDATION AT NEC, GOVERNORS ENDORSE SUSPENSION OF PUBLIC GATHERINGS  *Special committee to coordinate FG, States’ response to Coronavirus pandemic set up In what reflects a continuous and consistent confrontation of COVID-19 in Nigeria, State governors under the auspices of the National Economic Council (NEC) have set up a Special Committee to coordinate Federal and State governments’ response to deal with the fallout of the Coronavirus pandemic. The Committee which started deliberations immediately after the NEC meeting on Thursday is chaired by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, with the Governors of Jigawa, Edo, Ebonyi, Nasarawa, Kaduna, Kebbi and Ogun States as members.  The establishment of the Special Committee mandated to coordinate the responses of the Federal Government and States especially as it relates to the socio-economic implications of the pandemic on Nigerians, was the major outcome o...

The Federal Government may have directed the reduction in the pump price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) from N145 per liter to about N130. Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva, had last week said the government was in consultation with relevant stakeholders on the possibility of reducing the price following the crash in crude oil prices in the international market. It was learned that the government may have approved the new price after a presentation by Sylva to the ongoing meeting of Federal Executive Council (FEC) being presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari at the presidential villa, Abuja. In compliance with the directives of the Honourable Minister of State for Petroleum Resources on PMS pricing, the Corporation has reviewed its *Ex-coastal, Ex-depot and NNPC Retail pump prices* accordingly.   Effective *19th March 2020 ,* NNPC Ex-Coastal price for PMS has been reviewed downwards from * N117.6/litre to N99.44/litre * while Ex...

My dear Son, As I write this letter I do not know your address. I am addressing it to you as my son, because I know you understand why. I got to know you when you were a very young person, a boy about to enter Secondary School Before then and, very importantly, I knew your Grand Father, Emir of Kano Sanusi and your uncle the late Ambassador Ado Sanusi.  Circumstances had made it possible for me to become very close to both of them. Your late father, Ambassador Aminu Sanusi and I were contemporaries and were also very close. We trusted each other. He was a man of thought, far sighted, kind, considerate and resolute. You have always, from the first day we met, called me Baba: when you were younger but as the years rolled on you called me Baba Joda. I accept the courtesy and value the respects it conveys. As a very young person, at our very first meeting, the questions you asked me and the points you raised were far and beyond your age and I thought that you possessed a gr...

The Sanusi Lamido Sanusi saga has not ended but it has reached an important denouement. As the Emir of Kano, Sanusi was a leading member of the establishment. In the hierarchy among Fulani princes, he was second only to the Sultan of Sokoto, the direct descendant of Usman Dan Fodio, the Fulani revolutionary who led the war that ended the centuries –old Habe dynasties in the Hausa country. Sanusi himself is a member of the Fulani clan that put an end to the reign of the Hausa Sultan in Kano, got him killed along with his leading nobles and sent the remnant of the royal family into oblivion. Today, Sanusi’s foes would wish he would quietly go into oblivion. He would not. On Monday March 9, 2020, Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano, finally moved when he signed the instrument of deposition for Sanusi. Ganduje had received the backing of the state House of Assembly made up mostly of his colleagues in the ruling All Progressive Congress, APC. Earlier in the day, security agencies...

The Verdict. On Monday, Governor Abdullahi Ganduje  of Kano State finally mustered the courage to do what he had been planning for almost three years: He dethroned the 14th Emir of Kano, HH Muhammadu Sanusi ll.  Interestingly, the statement by the Secretary to the State Government, Alhaji Usman Alhaji, made no reference to the rash of probes that had been instituted in recent months. Nor was there any pretence that this is about transparency and accountability. HH Sanusi ll was dethroned for “total disrespect to lawful instructions from the office of the governor and other lawful authorities, including persistent refusal to attend official meetings and programmes organised by the government without any lawful justification which amount to total insubordination.” In the past 13 years, I have exchanged numerous emails and text messages with HH Sanusi ll. But the one I found most profound, even if disturbing, was his reply to my mail ten months ago. I read...

In order to build local capacity to compete favourably with scientifically advanced economies the Vice President,  Prof. Yemi  Osinbajo,  has supported the call to set aside one percent of the nation’s budget to boost research and innovation. Osinbajo made this known  during the meeting of the National Research and Innovation Council held at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Media aide to the Vice President, Laolu Akande, in a statement  made available to Vanguard, said that    the Vice President, responding to a memo presented to the Council on the need to improve funding of research and innovation by Science and Technology Minister, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu,  said the proposal to set aside a percentage of the national budget for funding of research and innovation deserves support.

It is almost impossible to ignore the outpouring of encomiums from Twitter users across the world, especially in Nigeria, since Thursday as the hashtag, #OsinbajoTheFixer, trended for days on social media to celebrate President Muhammadu Buhari’s deputy, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, days to his 63rd birthday. The Twitter users expressed their admiration towards the former university lecturer, commending his leadership style, his timely interventions and calling attention to the many assignments the President entrusted in his care as his deputy. It would be recalled that since the re-election of the Buhari/Osinbajo ticket last year, the President himself and other prominent Nigerians have been praising Prof Osinbajo for one thing or the other. Some of these include the N-Power, MarketMoni, TraderMoni, Homegrown School Feeding, MSMEs Clinics, Cash Transfer, GEEP, supervising many other intervention programmes like the Niger-Delta intervention, and the unveiling of 59...

This file handout illustration image obtained February 3, 2020, courtesy of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and created at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),  Lizabeth MENZIES / Centers for Disease Control and Prevention / AFP South Africa on Thursday confirmed its first case of the novel coronavirus, a 38-year-old male who traveled to Italy, the health ministry announced. It is the first case in southern Africa and the latest confirmed case in sub-Saharan Africa after Nigeria and Senegal. “This morning,… the National Institute for Communicable Diseases confirmed that a suspected case of COVID-19 has tested positive,” Health Minister Zweli Mkhize said in a statement. The case was detected in the country’s eastern Kwa-Zulu Natal province. The patient and his wife were part of a group of 10 people who arrived back in South Africa from Italy on March 1. Two days later, on March 3, he consulted a private general practitioner with...

The Lagos State government on Tuesday carried out a sensitization program to educate community leaders, on preventive measures on   Coronavirus to prevent a larger outbreak. The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, who disclosed this at the Stakeholders’ Forum on the Management and Control of COVID-19 in Lagos State,  said since the Ebola outbreak in Nigeria, Lagos state has been building capacity to handle further outbreaks. Abayomi said: “We always knew it was going to happen. It was not a matter of if, it was a matter of when and when has happened. I am glad to tell you with the support of Mr. Governor, other colleagues in cabinets and all the health care professionals in our 27 General hospitals, our 300 primary health care facilities, and our teaching hospitals, I am happy to tell you that Lagos is ready.” However, the commissioner said the state can withstand an outbreak but may not be able to withstand a very large outbreak, hence,...