LUX TERRA ENGAGES STAFF OF THE INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC ACADEMY, NADALA, ON INTENSIFYING THE CAMPAIGN FOR INTEGRITY

Monday 24th to Wednesday 26th of January, 2022, Lux Terra Leadership Foundation in conjunction with the Islamic Education Trust, hosted a 3-day workshop for 25 teaching and administrative staff of the International Islamic Academy, Madala, Niger State, who play critical roles in the character formation of the students.

The workshop which held at the Lux Terra complex in Apo, Abuja, and whose theme is "Intensifying the Campaign for Greater Integrity in Nigeria", was aimed at reviewing methodologies and developing creatively new strategies for making the school a center of excellence in character formation, and a model for other schools around to emulate. It is designed to help participants acquire new tools and skills for more effective mentoring of the secondary school students in the life of integrity.

Using "S*x To Trap Any Kind Of Man, Blessing CEO expatiates

Blessing Nkiruka Okoro, Relationship Expert

Relationship expert, Blessing Nkiruka Okoro popularly known as Blessing CEO has opened up on in favour of the womenfolk on how a female can use “SEXxxxxxx to Trap any kind of Man”.

In Arkansas, Trans Teens Await an Uncertain Future

Even as the medical community grapples with how best to provide care to transgender adolescents, some states seek to ban it outright.

 

Zara Banks, 14, near her family home in Fayetteville, Ark. Last spring, Arkansas enacted the first law in the nation barring physicians from administering hormones or puberty blockers to transgender people younger than 18. The law is on hold pending a legal challenge from the American Civil Liberties Union.Credit...Liz Sanders for The New York Times

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — For years, Zara Banks had been looking forward to her 14th birthday — the moment, last June, when her life would no longer be on pause.

Ever since Zara, a transgender girl, was 8, she has been certain she wanted to grow up to be a woman. After conversations with her parents and sessions with a therapist, she began transitioning socially: changing her name to Zara and pronouns to she/her. When she turned 9, she began treatment with puberty blockers, drugs that would place her physiological development in limbo until she was old enough — 14 according to her doctor — to begin estrogen therapy and develop a feminine body.

But last spring Arkansas enacted a law, the first of its kind in the nation, barring physicians from administering hormones or puberty blockers to transgender people younger than 18. The bill, called the Save Adolescents from Experimentation (SAFE) Act, overrode a veto by Gov. Asa Hutchinson and was to go into effect on July 28, about a month after Zara’s birthday. It is now on pause because of a legal challenge from the American Civil Liberties Union.

Zara has been able to get hormones while the court case proceeds, but worries about what the future holds. “I was just really happy, after finally waiting so long, to get something that I’ve needed for a very long time,” she said, sitting in her suburban backyard with her parents, Jasmine and Mo Banks, amid buzzing cicadas.

Nigeria to retrieve 1,030 Benin bronzes from Germany - Commission

Nigeria will receive no fewer than 1,030 Benin artefacts from Germany in 2022, the Director-General, National Commission for Museums and Monuments (NCMM), Abba Tijani, has said.

Mr Tijani, a professor, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ibadan on Tuesday that many artefacts had been received from Germany but the commission would receive at least an additional 1, 030 in 2022.

Premium Times reports that the objects were taken from the country during the punitive expedition of Benin in 1897.

Capping off Milan men's fashion week, sportswear brand @kway_official held its first live runway show since the pandemic began

Capping off Milan men's fashion week, sportswear brand @kway_official held its first live runway show since the pandemic began. Dubbed as their R&D label, the collection features a more colorful and hip silhouette that caters to a modern and contemporary audience.

AY, Wife Welcome Second Child After 13 Years

Nigerian comedian Ayo Makun and his wife have welcomed their second child.

The baby is coming 13 years after their first and the lucky father while praising God for the new addition to his family said "Our prayers in the last 13 years have been answered. Ayomide, thank you for making Mabel and I mummy and daddy again."

Credit: Instagram | aycomedian

PDP QUESTIONS NIGERIA’S OIL AND GAS REMITTANCES

A report by Arise News submits that the Governors of the Peoples Democratic Party have questioned the management of Nigeria's oil and gas resources by the Federal Government.

Airline executives express fears over possible catastrophic flight disruption by 5G

Photo credit: Reuters

Airline executives have warned that the new 5G service could cause “catastrophic disruption” to aviation industry.

According to ABC News report, the 10 biggest US airlines have warned that the impending switch-on of 5G mobile networks will cause "major disruption" to flights.

They said the start of Verizon and AT&T 5G mobile phone services, planned for Wednesday, would cause a "completely avoidable economic calamity".

We Have Paid Over N200m Ransom To Bandits –Zamfara Community Lament

Members of Nahuche community in the Bungudu Local Government Area of Zamfara State protested at the Government House in Gusau on Sunday over continuous killings and abductions by bandits in the community.

Tuesday, January 18 Briefing

Good morning. We’re covering Omicron’s effect on the pandemic and the continuing costs of Brexit.

Dr. Anthony Fauci said the evolution of the pandemic was still unclear.Salvatore Di Nolfi/EPA, via Shutterstock

 

Will Omicron bring an end to the pandemic?

 

Speaking at the online World Economic Forum, Dr. Anthony Fauci, President Biden’s top medical adviser for Covid, said it was too soon to say how the Omicron variant would change the course of the pandemic. The sheer volume of cases could have a meaningful effect on collective immunity, he said, but the evolution of the pandemic was still unclear.

“It is an open question as to whether or not Omicron is going to be the live virus vaccination that everyone is hoping for,” he said, adding: “That would only be the case if we don’t get another variant that eludes the immune response.”

 

Cases remain extremely high across the U.S., averaging nearly 802,000 per day, an increase of 98 percent over the past two weeks. An average of nearly 156,000 people with the virus are hospitalized nationwide, a record. Deaths now exceed 1,900 per day, up 57 percent over two weeks.

Next steps: Dr. Fauci said the world was still in the first phase of the pandemic — “where the whole world is really very negatively impacted.” The next phases are deceleration, control, elimination and eradication. In the control phase, he said, the virus will become a “nondisruptive presence” and be considered endemic.

Nigeria's Richest Woman Preaches On Lagos Street

FOLORUNSO ALAKIJA, Nigerian billionaire business woman and philanthropist

Nigeria's richest woman, Folorunso Alakija, on Friday, shared videos of her and other persons engaging in street evangelism in the Surulere area of Lagos, Punch Newspapers report.

According to the report, she and her fellow preachers were all dressed in yellow T-shirts with 'Perfect peace' written on them and blue turbans.

You are not the GOAT – Omokri

A Nigerian lawyer, bestselling author and human rights activist Reno Omokri via his Instagram page has dropped ‘men-folk’ a vital message.  

Prayers, Support of Clerics Have Kept Us Going So Far – Gov. Makinde

Seyi Makinde, Oyo State Governor

This morning, we worshipped at Living Spring Chapel International, Ibadan, to give thanks for God’s protection last year and to commit this year into His Hands. I appreciated Pastor Femi Emmanuel - the presiding pastor, and the rest of the congregation for their warm welcome.

Oyo State governor, Seyi Makinde dropped the message via his Instagram page a few hours ago.

According to the message, the governor in his remarks during the occasion shared the rationale for some of the projects being carried out by his administration. He also thanked everyone for their prayers and support, and encouraged them to get involved in the political process to choose Nigeria’s next set of leaders as the 2023 elections approaches.