Young Nigerians who pushed for the #notTooYoungToRunbill.

Not to long the #NotTooYoungToRun bill was signed into law

Recall Buhari had, during his Democracy Day speech on Tuesday, revealed that he’ll be signing the bill into law “in few days”.

The Reduction of Age for Election Bill popularly known on social media as #NotTooYoungToRun, will see the reduction of the minimum age to run for President from 40 to 35 years, State and Federal representatives from 30 to 25 years and 30 years for Governors and Senators.

Speaking at the signing ceremony, President Buhari said: 

"If you want to change something in nigeria and if you can organize and work hard towards it you can achieve it -the outcome of such effort is this remarkable feat".

The young Nigerians who pushed for the bill to be signed into law has been identified and are automatically a hero to the younger generation.

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National Assembly increases 2018 budget to #9.120trn

Six months after President Muhammadu Buhari presented the draft copy of the N8.612 trillion 2018 budget estimates to a joint session of the National Assembly on November 7 last year.

The Senate on Tuesday, May 15, laid the report. Vanguard reports that the report of the committee on appropriations was laid by the chairman, Senator Danjuma Goje representing Gombe central.

It was gathered that the presentation of the report was seconded by the chairman, Senate committee on public accounts, Senator Matthew Urhoghide representing Edo south.

It was gathered that the budget would be passed this week, just as moves to do that is largely believed by concerned Nigerians to have arisen as a result of May 31 set as deadline for life span of the N7.444trillion 2017 budget.

The six months the 2018 budget estimates has spent in the National Assembly has been the longest period for consideration of an appropriation bill so far since year 2000 when a full fledged yearly budget was first presented to it.

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Angry Nigerians attack president buhari in London.

Below,is a video of Nigerians in diaspora who waited for president  Mohammadu buhari with placards and banners chanting 'terrorist' and all sort of abusive words.

As we can recall the President of Nigeria Muhammadu buhari was on a four day medical checkup trip to london.Before he was attacked by bitter Nigerians in London.

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President buhari orders recruitment of 6000 police officer in Nigeria.

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the recruitment of 6,000 additional policemen as part of safety precautions  to address the nation’s security challenges including the farmers/herdsmen clashes across the country. The President made this known in a special interview session with Voice of America, Hausa service, in Washington, United States on Tuesday morning.

He said “We will put in place more measures to check insecurity in the country including increasing the number of policemen and train them. “I have approved the recruitment of 6,000 policemen by the police authorities and I directed that those recruited must come from all the 776 local government areas of the federation. “Even if it means recruiting one person each from the 776 they should do that instead of going to motor parks, railway stations or market for the recruitment exercise. “I gave (Police authorities) them this directive,’’ he said.

He said that clashes between farmers and herdsmen had been in existence for the past years, saying that Nigerian herdsmen were not in the habit of carrying dangerous weapons while moving their animals around the country.

President Buhari also used the opportunity to debunk the insinuation that Christians were being killed by herdsmen.

On his purported comment on youth while in London, President Buhari dismissed the report, saying that the media only preferred to interpret and report what they like instead of concentrating on developmental journalism.
He said: “You know Nigeria’s population is now between 180 and 190 million and 60 per cent of this population is youth.

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Tanzania law imposes $900 fee for bloggers,online users ,also compulsory password for mobile device.

Tanzania’s government has enacted a law that will regulate content posted online, introducing fees for bloggers and online media in addition to policing morals and authenticity of social media users.

The regulation known as the Electronic and Postal Communications (Online Content) Regulations 2018, was initially published by the Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority (TCRA) and came into effect during March 2018

 With the new law, Tanzanians operating online radio stations and video (TV) websites, including bloggers will be required to apply for a licence, pay a licence fee upon registration as well as annual fees.

The new regulations also require all Tanzanians with mobile devices to have a password (PIN) for locking their phones, with offenders likely being fined up to 5 million Tanzanian Shillings (approximately $2,000) or 12 months imprisonment, or both depending in what the court decides.

Internet cafés and online platforms are also expected to install surveillance cameras to record and archive activities inside their business premises.
AFRICAN TIMES TAKE ON THIS NEW LAW IS THAT IT SHOULD BE ABLE TO BOOST THE COUNTRY'S INCOME.

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SENEGAL PROTESTS DEATH OF ITS CITIZEN IN SPAIN

The government of Senegal has officially protested the death of a Hundreds of the street vendor who died on Thursday evening in Madrid.

35-year-old Mame Mbaye Ndiaye suffered a heart attack in the street while running away from police.

That evening protesters threw stones and set dustbins alight in Madrid’s Lavapies neighborhood, home to many migrant communities and near the place where Ndiaye died.

Senegalese Foreign minister, Sidiki Kaba told a private radio, KFM, that the Spanish ambassador to Dakar was summoned and tasked to explain the circumstances surrounding the death of Ndiaye.

The Government of Senegal condemns the violence that led to the death of the Senegalese,’‘ Kaba said.

Kaba says the government has request an independent commission of inquiry into Ndiaye’s death.

Meanwhile, hundreds of people held a peaceful protest in central Madrid on Friday to demand better police treatment of street vendors.

Friday’s gathering in a square in Lavapies passed without violence. Protesters held signs reading slogans such as “Enough of police harassment” and chanted “Police murderers”.

Spain is the third busiest European migration hub, with more than 20,000 arrivals recorded last year.

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Fashola inspects ongoing solar projects in kano.

The current minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Raji Fashola and the his team inspecting the ongoing  Solar Panels project of the Electrified Shops Project on the Roofs at Sabon Gari Market, Kano.

Babatunde Raji Fashola listened to one of the beneficiaries of the Solar Powered Systems, a trader in Sabon Gari Market explain how the Solar Project is helping to improve his ease of doing business.

In a picture he is seen inspecting the works.

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Malawi becomes first African nation to use WHO approved typhoid vaccine

Malawi has launch it's typhoid vaccines making it the first country in Africa using the vaccines to fight typhoid infections in children.

Four-year-old Golden Kondowe was the first child to receive the vaccine, on Wednesday (January 21) in Blantyre’s Ndirande Township.

The settlement has registered at least 100 cases of Typhoid, and is said to be a high risk area.

The coming in of this vaccine will help to reduce the number of cases that we register.
The clinical trials are meant to test the efficacy and cost-effectiveness of the typhoid conjugate vaccine (TCV) according to the Malawi-Liverpool Wellcome Trust which is running the programme.

About 24,000 children aged from nine months to 12 years will take part in the study funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

“Many parents are sceptical about the vaccine. But I know it will be helpful. We just have to protect our children and babies. typhoid is claiming many lives both in rural and urban areas,” said Christopher Kondowe, Golden’s father.

“The coming in of this vaccine is very significant in Ndirande because we have a huge population of about 140,373. And with the study that our colleagues did, they found that Ndirande has a lot of typhoid cases. So, the coming in of this vaccine will help to reduce the number of cases that we register,” said Mwagomba, a senior nursing officer.

Typhoid is a highly contagious infection caused by the Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi bacteria. It is contracted by consuming contaminated foods or drinks and symptoms include nausea, fever, abdominal pain and pink spots on the chest. Untreated, it can be fatal.

Health workers are conducting awareness campaigns to educate residents on prevention and cure of the disease.

The new vaccine against typhoid has been approved by the World Health Organization (WHO).

The GAVI global vaccine alliance said last year it had earmarked $85 million to help support the introduction of typhoid vaccines in poor countries.

A team of researchers from the University of Liverpool and the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine has been working with their local counterparts.

Professor Melita Gordon, is the principal investigator, at Malawi-Liverpool Wellcome Trust.

“Until about five years ago, there was relatively little typhoid here in Blantyre, in Malawi. And what we have been able to show is that there has been a big outbreak not only in Malawi, in Blantyre but across many big cities in Africa. And we have been able to show that this is a new strain of typhoid that came across to the continent from the Indian subcontinent and it is multi-drug resistant which means that it is transmitted very quickly and spread very quickly,” she said.

Typhoid fever affects between 12 and 20 million people worldwide in regions where the quality of water and sanitation is low, particularly in south Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.

Around 1 in 100 cases is deadly, and about 3 percent of those infected become chronic carriers of the disease.

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UGANDAN PRESIDENT ORDERS INSTALLATION OF CCTV CAMERAS AND PALM- PRINTS IDENTIFICATION FOR ALL CITIZENS.

Uganda’s president Yoweri Museveni has told his citizens it is time they implement capturing of finger prints and DNA records in order to eliminate crime in the country.

The president also urged on  his official twitter account  that authorities halt the unregulated sale of mobile phone SIM cards.The president also plans to install CCTV cameras in urban areas ‘in the next few months.

 This became a top security issue in the country after the kidnap and brutal murder of 28 year old Susan Magara whose body was dumped in Kigo, a suburb of the capital, Kampala, that is along the newly constructed Kampala-Entebbe expressway.

DNA records of everybody are good to compare with blood samples, sweat, sperm etc could be used to track down a criminal at the scene of the crime

The president who has previously called for the installation of cameras in urban areas as a measure to counter crime, believes that is this had been done, whoever dumped Magara’s body could have been identified.


Police in Uganda have put in place a reward of 100 million Uganda

shillings for anyone with clues that might lead to the identification, arrest and conviction of the kidnappers.

The police released an audio clip of the kidnappers demanding ransom from Magara’s family. The family says the kidnappers made several calls using unregistered simcards, thus the president’s directives to check unregulated sale of mobile simcards.



In May last year, Ugandans were ordered to have their sim cards registered using the electronic National identity cards or risk disconnection, following the gruesome murder of the Assistant Inspector General of Police, Andrew Felix Kaweesi.

However, nearly a year later, security agencies are struggling with a series of murders, kidnaps and fleecing of money, where criminals use unregistered simcards to coordinate their operation.

‘‘DNA records of everybody are good to compare with blood samples, sweat, sperm etc found at the scene of crime. Palm-prints are better than thumb prints because the criminal may leave the palm-print and not thumb print,’‘ Museveni said.

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UNICEF declares South West Has Second Highest Number Of Stunted Children In Nigeria

 United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) has revealed that the south-west has the second highest number of stunted children in Nigeria. UNICEF Communication Officer, Blessing Ejiofor, speaking at a meeting on child nutrition in Ogun state attributed the high number of stunted children in the region to acute malnutrition.

She revealed that 19.4% of children in South West are stunted, which is only
second to what is obtained in the North. She said; “However, 19.4 per cent of
children in South-West Nigeria are stunted. This figure is worse than the figure for the South-East and the south-south but better than the North as we would see during the presentations. This calls for more work by everyone –government and all of us.

“As agenda setters, we must do more to keep child nutrition conversations on the priority list of those that can act to reverse this ugly trend.
“UNICEF believes that journalists can help set the agenda for action against all forms of child malnutrition, be it severe acute malnutrition or stunting. This, the media can do by creating heightened awareness among leaders and citizens.

The media remains UNICEF’s major ally as we work for every child, everywhere, to build a better world for everyone.

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