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The Anambra State Government has commenced free hypertension screening services in all public health facilities across the state as measures to strengthen preventive healthcare and promote early detection of non-communicable diseases. The wife of the state governor, Dr Nonye Soludo, who disclosed this in Awka, on Friday, urged residents to take advantage of this opportunity, adding that hypertension is currently one of the commonest and deadliest health conditions in the society. She added that the initiative reflects the state government’s commitment to building a healthier Anambra, where quality healthcare is accessible to everyone and preventable health conditions are detected before…
Lionel Messi has taken a step forward in his injury recovery and could play a few minutes in Argentina’s upcoming friendlies before their World Cup opener, coach Lionel Scaloni said on Friday. “Leo is doing well, he has already trained partly with the group, he’s no longer completely separated,” Scaloni said. “It’s possible he’ll play a few minutes in the friendlies. We’ll see whether that’s tomorrow’s game or the other one.” Defending World Cup champions Argentina will take on Honduras in College Station, Texas, on Saturday and play Iceland on Tuesday in Auburn, Alabama. “He’s much better and that gives…
Katie Holmes opened up about her viral reunion with Dawson’s Creek costar Joshua Jackson for their upcoming film, Happy Hours. “To be honest, it was unexpected,” the actress, 47, said of the fans’ excitement for her and Jackson, also 47, to share the screen again in an interview with Variety published on Friday, June 5. “I know we were on a show that a lot of people watched, but I guess we never fully realized the impact. It still kind of throws all of us.” Before Jackson signed on to the project, Holmes, who serves as the movie’s writer and…
Eight pastors have been remanded in a correctional facility after being arraigned by the Anambra State Government over allegations that they staged miracles using hired actors to deceive members of the public. The defendants were arraigned before a state high court in Awka, Anambra State, on multiple charges, including allegedly wielding fake supernatural powers, using places of worship for criminal activities, and obtaining money by false pretence. The Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice in Anambra, Tobechukwu Nweke, SAN, led the prosecution, according to a report posted on Facebook on Friday by the Anambra Broadcasting Service. The defendants are Ndubisi…
A political strategist, Baba Yusuf, has decried the upsurge of insecurity in Nigeria, stressing that it is getting worse. Speaking during an interview on Arise Television’s Prime Time on Friday, Yusuf lamented that it has gotten to a point where Nigerians now beg terrorists for their lives. According to him, for 17 years Nigeria has been facing multidimensional insecurity, stressing that and it has got to a point where citizens have lost trust in the leaders. He charged the government to kickstart the investigation of why so much money is going into security but the country is not getting the desired outcome.…
Former chairman of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, Sam Amadi, has said there is no significant difference between the opposition and the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC. Featuring in an interview on News Central Television on Friday, Amadi said the majority of the politicians in the opposition sprang from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, apart from a few persons. He was speaking on the level of preparedness by the various political parties ahead of the 2027 general elections. According to him, primary elections in Nigeria have always been unfree and unfair, stating that the degree of chaos might differ. “Well,…
Five persons, including a female child, lost their lives while 12 others sustained varying degrees of injuries in a lone road accident along the Nkalagu axis of the Enugu–Abakaliki Federal Highway in Ebonyi State on Friday. The Ebonyi State Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Daniel Asanya, disclosed this in an interview with our correspondent in Abakaliki. According to him, the accident occurred at Edema Bridge in Nkalagu, Ishielu Local Government Area, involving a commercial white Toyota Hiace bus with registration number RSH 231 XE travelling from Abakaliki to Enugu. Asanya said the vehicle was…
Former Liverpool manager, Jurgen Klopp, has insisted he is not interested in becoming the next Real Madrid manager. This follows comments made by Enrique Riquelme, who will be contesting against Florentino Perez in Madrid’s presidential elections this Sunday. Riquelme vowed to appoint Klopp as manager of he defeats Perez. But Klopp’s agent, Marc Kosicke, has insisted that his client is not eager to coach a club again and is happy at Red Bull. Kosicke told Sky Germany: “It’s annoying. “He’s not planning to return to coaching a club and happy at Red Bull.” Klopp has not coached any team since he…
No fewer than 572 pharmacies, patent medicine stores and illegal medicine outlets have been sealed by the Pharmacy Council of Nigeria across Plateau State. The outlets were shut for various violations of pharmaceutical regulations, including cooking inside drug outlets, illegal clinical practice and unauthorised access to controlled medicines. The PCN’s Head of Department, Enforcement, Dr Suleiman Chiroma, disclosed this at a press conference in Jos on Friday at the end of a four-day enforcement exercise. Chiroma, who spoke on behalf of the Registrar/CEO of the Council, Ibrahim Ahmed, said the operation was carried out in line with the Council’s mandate…
The management of the Nationwide League One, Nigeria’s third-tier football league, has banned Green Beret FC of Zaria for two seasons and imposed other sanctions following the bloody assault on match officials in Katsina on Friday, Saturday PUNCH reports. Courtesy of two late goals, Green Beret FC lost 2-0 to Zamfara United in an NLO game played at the Muhammadu Dikko Stadium on Friday, but the outcome of the match was overshadowed by attacks on the match officials, allegedly carried out by Green Beret FC officials. In viral videos that surfaced after the game, match officials were seen scrambling for…
