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The Federal Government of Nigeria has approved a five-year nutrition action plan that will help to reduce hunger and malnutrition across the country. Spokesman to the Vice President, Laolu Akande, disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday, December 15. The plan was approved by the National Council on Nutrition, which is chaired by the Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo. Titled the “National Multi-Sectoral Plan of Action for Food and Nutrition (NMPFAN) 2021-2025”, the plan will guide…
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Acting on a tip from Japanese cyber researchers, the African Union’s technology staffers discovered that a group of suspected Chinese hackers had rigged a cluster of servers in the basement of an administrative annex to quietly siphon surveillance videos from across the AU’s sprawling campus in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s capital. The security breach was carried out by a Chinese hacking group nicknamed “Bronze President,” according to a five-page internal memo reviewed by Reuters. It said…
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MacKenzie Scott, the ex-wife of Amazon founder, Jeff Bezos, has donated more than $4bn in the past four months to hundreds of charities and aid organizations, including food banks fighting the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. Scott, who has a personal net worth of more than $60bn most of which came from her $38bn divorce settlement last year, pledged to give away much of her wealth. On Tuesday the 50-year-old said she had decided to…
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Controversial former Senator, Dino Melaye, has urged Nigerians not to accept the use of any Covid-19 vaccine from Western countries. He said this in a short message posted on Twitter, on Wednesday. In the video, he claimed, “for a hundred years, we couldn’t find a vaccine for cancer. for over forty years we are yet to find any vaccine for HIV AIDS. for over another hundred years research has been going on to find a…
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Former President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday said he was wrongly judged by some officials of the current administration who tagged him and some members of his former cabinet as corrupt. He, however, insisted that he does not hold any grudge against his detractors for their harsh criticisms. It would be recalled that the ex-President was widely criticized, before the election in 2015, for his approach to alleged corruption in his administration, the perennial problem of…