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More than 41,000 people have been infected in the first six months of 2018, leading to 37 deaths. Last year there were 23,927 cases and the year before 5,273. Experts blame this surge in infections on a drop in the number of people being vaccinated. In England, there have been 807 cases so far this year. The WHO is calling on European countries to take action. Public Health England say the outbreaks in England are largely due to people who have travelled to areas of mainland Europe that have had outbreaks. Measles is highly infectious and spreads by droplets in coughs and sneezes. The infection lasts seven to 10 days. But while most people recover completely, it can cause some serious complications, including: encephalitis (infection and swelling of the brain) meningitis febrile convulsions pneumonia liver infection (hepatitis) The MMR vaccine can prevent infection but discredited research 20 years ago that erroneously linked MMR to autism has stopped some people from trusti...

Chelsea Clinton has said she may run for office when her local congresswoman or senator in New York retires. She said she was ‘‘a definite maybe’’ in terms of following her parents to Washington. The former first daughter, 38, who has consistently denied all suggestions that she might make a presidential run in 2020, said she had no current plans to follow her parents in running for office.

List of New CBN Management Team Ready. Former Managing Director of Unity Bank to emerge as New Governor . Details coming

The Kwara chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Saturday called on Bukola Saraki to resign his appointment as the Senate President. The party made the call in a statement by the Chairman, Caretaker Committee of the party, Mr Bashir Bolarinwa, on Saturday in Ilorin. Bolarinwa said Saraki should tow the path of honour and relinquish the office of the Senate President exclusively reserved for the party with majority members in the Senate. “Members of the hallowed chamber must be truly distinguished in character and conduct. “The path of honour was led by Distinguished Senator Godswill Akpabio who, before defecting to ruling party, had honorably resigned as the leader of the minority party in the Senate. “So Saraki should act honorably resign from that office of trust. He should for once tow the path of honour and stop heating up the polity unduly,” he added. According to Bolarinwa, any politician holding elective office, hold such in trust for the...

The House of Representatives Lokoja-Kogi federal constituency bye-election commenced peacefully as early as 8am on Saturday. Sources  report that electoral officials in some of the polling units arrived with materials to time. Electorates in their hundreds trooped to the polling units as early as 6:30am to exercise their civic rights. However, attempt to snatch election materials and ballot box at one of the polling units at Ward B was frustrated by determined voters. At Paparanda square, Independent National Electoral Commission staff had to flee the polling unit for safety due to confusion created by sporadic gunshots by security men attached to a government official. The official was alleged to be going from one polling units to another in Lokoja when he was confronted by youths who questioned the legality of his action. In Gegu and Koton Larfe towns in Kogi Local Government, the turnout of voters was impressive with women and youths in majority. The candidate of the PDP,...

Saraki has referred to Oshiomhole as an ignorant, who is behaving like a rain-beaten chicken. The Senate President, Bukola Saraki has called Adams Oshiomhole, the National chairman of the All Progressive Congress, APC, an ignorant behaving like a rain-beaten chicken. Saraki responded to the APC chairman through Yusuph Olaniyonu, the Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the Senate President. In a statement sent to Pulse, Saraki claimed that a few months ago, Oshiomhole was crawling all over, pleading for his support to become the chairman of the ruling party. Saraki further referred to Oshiomhole as an ignorant, who needs to be better educated about Nigeria's parliamentary history.

APC’s national chairman, Oshiomhole, said Senator Saraki has never had the nation’s interest at heart - He said the Senate’s president’s main interest has always been to remain in power - Oshiomhole said Saraki’s quest for power was the reason why he reportedly connived with PDP senators to emerge Senate president The national chairman of All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, said the president of the Senate, Dr Bukola Saraki, never acted in the nation’s interest as he claimed. Oshiomhole stated this on Friday, August 10, in Abuja at a news conference, and said that Saraki had always been concerned about his personal interest and how he would remain in power, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. “The president of the Senate raised the issue that he had always acted not on the bases of his own personal interest, but on national interest. “The truth is that it is doubtful if he has ever acted either on national intere...

India has asked its telecom operators to find ways of blocking applications such as Facebook and messaging app WhatsApp in the case of misuse, according to a document seen by Reuters on Tuesday. India has in recent months intensified efforts to crack down on mass message forwards after it found that people were using social media and messaging apps to spread rumors and stoke public anger. WhatsApp in particular has faced the wrath of Indian regulators after false messages circulated on the messaging platform led to a series of lynchings and mob beatings across the country. The department of telecommunications in July asked Indian telecom service providers, as well as mobile and internet industry bodies, to “explore various possible options” to block such apps. “You are requested to explore various possible options and confirm how the Instagram/Facebook/Whatsapp/Telegram and such other mobile apps can be blocked on internet,” according to the government letter...

Sacked DG DSS arrested and detained. Details coming.  The sacked Director General was arrested by the police few minutes ago for breach of national security,after the acting President spoke with Buhari at 2.02pm .

As DSS takes over NASS, Bars Senator Rafiu Ibrahim, Journalists, Staff from gaining entrance to NASS By Henry Umoru ABUJA- FORMER Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Timi Frank, this morning raised the alarm that the National Chairman of the APC, Adams Oshiomhole, the Director General of the Department of State Services (DG – DSS), Lawan Daura and 30 APC Senators are spearheading fresh moves to illegally impeach Senate Prssident, Dr. Bukola Saraki.

The list of new CBN Management Team will be announced before the end of next week. Security agencies will from tomorrow round up final checks on the nominees. Usually it takes seventy two hours to do that. It is expected that the list will be announced before friday the 10th of august.the approval to announce the list by the acting President was given by President Buhari before jetting out for vacation.the New Management Team will be headed by a former Managing Director of Unity Bank Henry Semenitari who signed his position as Managing Director few years ago. He is from Rivers State , South South Nigeria .