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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…

Are you looking to get your eating habits on the right track and lay off the supplements? Then, consider eating more eggs. Eggs come with many of benefits ranging from weight loss to even helping you have a baby. It is surprising that so many good things can come from such a small package. There are 10 Reasons Why Eggs Are the Most Important Food in your Diet. Eggs Increase Your Metabolism You may think your metabolism is not quite the same as it was in high school, but eating eggs can at least restore a bit of its former…

Donald Trump, US President has started to lose support among the white voters who helped put him in the White House, the recent polling shows. Trump’s job approval rating among white voters has plummeted from 49 percent to 41 per cent in February, according to the latest Pew Research Center poll results released Thursday. Those figures are a far cry from the 58 percent of the total white vote Trump claimed on Election Day last year. During the eight years of his presidency, Obama, too, lost favor among white voters. When Obama’s presidency began in January 2009, he had a…

Talks are at advanced stage between Anthony Joshua and Joseph Parker for a bumper unification fight in Cardiff on March 31, according to The Sun. New Zealander Parker, the WBO heavy world champion, is set to meet the British boxing star and WBA and IBF title holder, Joshua at the Principality Stadium in the Welsh capital. Speaking to ESPN, the 25-year-old Parker said, “I think the Joshua fight can go ahead early next year when both teams are locked in and happy. “When we can find a free date, a time in March, then we can definitely make it happen.…