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Akwa Ibom State is rated among the nine best comfortable states in the country which graduates of tertiary institutions are clamouring to serve their one-year mandatory National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) scheme, according to a report by Naija.ng. Other states are Lagos, Ogun, Plateau, Enugu, Rivers, Cross River, Osun and Niger. Apart from the most comfortable states, corps members are also interested in the list of states that pay the highest remuneration to them. Of the 15 states, Lagos State pays corps members the highest- ₦15,000. A corps member who works in ministry receives ₦10,000 while the one serving in…

Longevity is desired by many people. Yet, some learn and apply the keys to longevity. Others believe and apply the basic keys to live long. But for few who are neither here nor there longevity is an illusive. However, stubbornness and optimism have been identified as basic keys to a long life, a new study suggests. Researchers hunting for clues to longevity focused on nine remote villages in the Cilento region of southern Italy. There, hundreds of residents are older than 90. The study zeroed in on 29 of them, who ranged in age from 90 to 101. While these…

Akwa Ibom State Police Command has arrested more than 59 suspected members belonging to different secret cults in Akwa Ibom and a few have been charged to court. A press release by DSP Bala Elkana, Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in Uyo, said during the course of investigation, police arrested three gang members and recovered one locally made pistol in the house of one Uko Effiong Edem of Ikot Oduot village in Ibesikpo Asutan Local Government Area. Elkana listed recovered items to include wraps of dried leaves suspected to be Indian hemp, different types of GSM phones snatched from people,…

Not fewer than 100 million people in the world a year are forced to choose between food and healthcare. Report by World Health Organization and World Bank finds medical bills are pushing people in poorest countries into extreme poverty. About 800 million people worldwide spend more than 10 per cent of their household budgets on health costs not covered by insurance. Almost 100 million people are pushed into extreme poverty each year because of debts accrued through healthcare expenses. A report, published by the World Health Organization and the World Bank on Wednesday, found the poorest and most vulnerable people…

Doug Jones has become the first democrat to have won the Alabama Senate in 25 years, defeating Roy Moore in a special election earthquake Tuesday. Republican Roy Moore’s defeat is a big political setback to President Donald Trump and his former strategist, Steve Bannon. The Associated Press called the race for Jones, a former U.S. attorney, who had 49.9 percent of the vote to Moore’s 48.4 percent with all precincts reporting — a difference of more than 21,000 votes. Still, Moore declined to concede, saying there were still military and other votes that need to be counted. Alabama Secretary of…

6 countries that run free tuition tertiary education The cost of obtaining degrees across the world is high. In Nigeria, private institutions collect the highest school fees such that only the privileged few could send their children to such schools. In United States of America, the cost of obtaining a degree is equally high making some students to move to other foreign countries to obtain such. Some of these countries abroad offer distinctively very low or free education through various forms of scholarship or programmes. However, there are some countries in the world tuition is free. These countries are: Norway…

Dr. Obiora Okonkwo of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is senator for the vacant Anambra central Senatorial zone in Anambra state, Federal High, Abuja has declared. The declaration followed a judgment by Justice John Tsoho over a motion on notice brought before him by Dr. Okonkwo. Dr. Okonkwo had gone before the court seeking an order that he is the “validly nominated candidate of the PDP on the December 7, 2014 PDP primary election to nominate its candidate for Anambra Central Senatorial District at Ekwueme Square Awka, Anambra state, whose political party contested and won the national Assembly election that…

The world is “one tiny tantrum away” from a nuclear crisis, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons said on Sunday as it accepted the Nobel Peace Prize. “We have a choice, the end of nuclear weapons or the end of us,” the group’s executive director Beatrice Fihn said, according to a BBC report. ICAN, a network of more than 400 global NGOs, won the prize for its efforts in highlighting the dangers of nuclear weapons, as well as working on a treaty to ban them. The possibility of nuclear retaliation has been thrust into the global spotlight in recent…

FIFA, the world football’s governing body, has penalized Super Eagles of Nigeria for fielding and ineligible player by awarding three vital points to the Fennec Foxes of Algeria. FIFA also fined the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) $6,000  (N2,175,660) for act of complicity. During matchday 6 of the Russia 2018 World Cup qualifiers, Super Eagles fielded defender Shehu Abdullahi, who should have served an automatic one-match ban for two yellow cards from earlier Matchdays (vs. Swaziland and Zambia). The sanction will have no effect on Eagles’ status as one of the 32 teams going to next year’s FIFA World Cup in…

Mohamed Salah, the Liverpool forward has been declared the overall winner of this year’s BBC African Footballer of the Year Award. The 25-year-old Egyptian and Liverpool star beat Gabon’s Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Guinean Naby Keita, Sadio Mané of Senegal and Nigeria’s Victor Moses. Fans voted online at BBC.com/AfricanFootball in record numbers this year for their favourites on the five-man shortlist. Presenter, Mimi Fawaz announced Mohamed Salah as the winner during a special presentation broadcast during Focus On Africa programme on BBC World Service and BBC World News, as well as a special show on BBC BRIT. Jurgen Klopp, Liverpool manager joined…