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Cancer vaccine that cured 97% of mice with blood tumours, has no painful side effects and eliminates the need for chemotherapy, may be available in just one year

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  1. Vaccine, which contains two safe drugs, may cause just fever and site soreness
  2. If approved, researchers expect it will be one-to-two years before it is available
  3. Rather than creating lasting immunity, the vaccine activates the immune system
  4. This then attack tumours in certain forms of the disease, such as lymphoma
  5. Approximately 1.7 million new people develop cancer every year in the US

A cancer vaccine that cured 97 percent of blood tumours in mice will be tested on humans with low-grade lymphoma later this year.

Patients receiving the vaccine, which contains two drugs proven for their safety, will not require any chemotherapy, with the jab’s side effects expected to be just fever and injection-site soreness.

If approved, researchers do not expect the treatment to be available for another year or two.

Rather than creating lasting immunity, the jab works by activating the immune system to attack tumours.

This is expected to be effective in low-grade lymphoma, which affects certain white blood cells and generally responds to treatment, due to it often being detected by the immune system, unlike other forms of the disease, such as bowel cancer.

Around 1.7 million new people develop cancer every year in the US.

Lead author Dr Ronald Levy, from Stanford University, said: ‘We have a huge problem in cancer and we will never be satisfied until we find solutions for everyone.’

WHAT ARE TUMOURS?

Tumours can be benign or cancerous (malignant).

Benign tumours usually grow quite slowly, do not spread and have a covering made up of normal cells.

Such growths only cause problems if:

They become become very large

Are painful or uncomfortable

Are unpleasant to look at

Press on the body’s organs

Take up space within the skull

Release hormones that affect how the body works

Malignant tumours typically:

Are made up of cancer cells

Grow faster

Spread to surrounding tissue

Enter other parts of the body via the bloodstream or lymph nodes.

BANKY W MARKS HIS 37TH BIRTHDAY WITH A MANSION IN LEKKI

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The popular Nigerian RnB singer and actor, Olubankole Wellington, polularlyknown as Banky W marked his 37th birthday yesterday, 27th march with a new mansion.

The singer whose wedding withthe popular actor, Adesua Etomi was the talk of town last year November is getting set to move into his new mansion in Lekki PHASE 1. The mansion has a private swimming pool with his innitial “W” engraved in it. painting and finishing touches are still ongoing.

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Breaking: Elelenwo Keke Riders protest increase in ticket price by NURTW

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John Diidi

Tricycle operators popularly known as Keke Napep drivers in Elelenwo, Obio Akpor Local Government area have on Wednesday dropped down their tools, in protest against the increment of their ticket price by the National Union of Road Transport workers.

The Keke Napep drivers said the increment of the ticket price from #200 to #500, is an act of wickedness and insensitivity towards them considering the ongoing construction of the Elelenwo road from the Railway to Oil mill which has forced them to take an alternative route.

Our TPCN correspondent who was at the scene of the protest spoke to a Keke Napep driver named ThankGod.

He had this to say “They increased our ticket from #200 to #500. So all the Keke drivers, however, have disagreed with that amount. We said we don’t want our ticket to be #500, we want it to be #200, which is the normal price.

“They didn’t give us any reason for the increment at all. They just came on Monday and told us to start paying #500, and started using SARS to arrest some of our members who refused to pay.

As at time of filing this report, residents of Elelenwo could be seen trekking home as no Keke Napep driver agreed to carry any passenger.

Efforts to get in touch with the Elelenwo NURTW officials proved abortive.

Suspects in Dino Melaye’s case escape from detention.

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Two suspects who accused Senator Dino Melaye and Mohammed Audu of arming them have escaped from their detention in SARS cell in A Division Lokoja, Kogi State.

Sources informed about the development told reporters that the jail break occurred midnight and other high profile suspects in the cell also took the advantage of the security breach to free themselves from detention.

Recall that the Nigerian Police had claimed it arrested two suspected political thugs working for Senator Dino Melaye and recovered two AK 47 rifles, five pump-action guns and a heap of charms from them.

The force spokesperson, Moshood Jimoh, in a statement, explained that the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad trailed and arrested Kabiru Saidu, a.k.a. Osama, 31 and Nuhu Salisu, a.k.a. Small, 25, after a gun battle with a police team.

According to him, the gun battle lasted for some hours on January 19, 2018 at Ogojueje in Dekina Local Government Area of Kogi State.

The police alleged that the suspects confessed that they were contracted by Melaye to work for him as political thugs during their meeting with him in December, 2017, in his car along Airport Road, Abuja.

Senator Melaye vehemently denied the allegations, blaming it on political detractors.

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UPTH CMD says APC will occupy Brick House come 2019.

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  1. Ugboma, chief medical director of the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital (UPTH), also received decamping members of the PDP to the APC.
  2. He accused Rivers PDP of planning to arm members of the Neighbourhood Watch Corps (NWC) in the state

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Professor Henry Ugboma, has assured supporters of the opposition party in Rivers State that Governor Nyesom Wike will be defeated in the forthcoming general elections.

Ugboma, who is the chief medical director of the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital (UPTH), further warned politicians in the state against arming thugs during the elections.

Ugboma spoke on Monday, March 27, at a one-day sensitization and reception for decampees from the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and other political parties in Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni and Ahoada-East local government areas of the state to the APC.

Ugboma urged people of the state to reject the recently passed and assented, Neighbourhood Watch Corps (NWC).

According to him, the paramilitary organisation is more of a militia group allegedly planned to be used by the PDP to rig the 2019 election in the state, adding that APC will clear all the seats in the elections.

“Now that 2019 elections have drawn close, they want to arm the youths again.

“I urge the people of Rivers state to stand up against the setting up of a militia group in the name of neighbourhood watch. They should reject it,” he said.

The leaders of the decampees, Wisdom Sylvester, Nnruka Nzekwesili, Elder Innocent Ojo, Rochas Akitikpo and Uwandu Blessed said they left the PDP because of lack of people’s oriented policies and projects.

In a similar development, the publicity secretary of the PDP, Samuel Nwanosike, said the Neighbourhood Watch Corps was to strengthen the security of the state and not planned to be used by the party.

Theportcitynews.com earlier reported that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) lost some of its members to the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Omoku, hometown of the Rivers state chairman of the PDP, Chief Felix Obuah.

While receiving the defectors on Saturday, March 3 at Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni, ONELGA (Omoku) local government area, Professor Ugboma, assured them that the APC would produce the next Governor in Rivers State come 2019.

FG reintroduces history into school curriculum.

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The Federal Government has ordered the reintroduction of history as an independent subject into basic and junior secondary schools in the country.

Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, who gave the directive, at the launch of History Curriculum and Teacher’s Guide in Abuja, said it would allow students know the history of the country.

History was buried under Social Studies curriculum, which generated controversies among education stakeholders in the country.

Adamu said the importance of history to nation-building, national identity, patriotism and overall human development could not be over-emphasised.

“The desire to realise this and national clamour for it to be back informed our decision to reintroduce the teaching of history in Nigeria’s primary and junior secondary schools.

“The Federal Ministry of Education developed its strategic plan –Education for Change: A ministerial strategic plan (2016-2019) which contained several initiatives.

“This initiative was approved by the National Council on Education during its 61st ministerial session in September 2016.”

The minister added that following this development, the Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council (NERDC) was directed to carry out the disarticulation of History from the social studies curriculum.

He said the new history curriculum was designed to expose students to a body of knowledge that would enable them appreciate history as an instrument of national integration and nation building in the 21st century and beyond.

He was, however, optimistic that the curriculum would equip the younger generations of Nigerians with the knowledge of the past and how the past relate to the present.

In his remarks, the Minister of State for Education, Anthony Anwukah, said a nation without history is a nation without a better future as it could not understand nor address the present situations.

Anwukah said in order to move the nation forward and make it play its catalyst role as instrument for human and national development; there was need for the reintroduction of history in schools.

Also, Professor and NERDC Executive Secretary, Ismail Junaidu, said the drive for the reintroduction of history as a stand-alone subject, at the basic education level was necessitated by the demand expressed by various stakeholders.

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Neighborhood watch bill has exposed the plans of the APC to disrupt the peace of the state” – Rivers PDP

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Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Rivers state has said the neighborhood watch bill has recorded its first major landmark, by exposing what it termed the secret plans of the opposition, All Progressive Congress, in the state to the security agencies about the security situation in Rivers State.

PDP Chairman in the state, Felix Obuah, stated this in a reaction to the lamentation and threat by the APC, to come up with a parallel security outfit in the state.

Obuah in a statement by his media aide, Jerry Needam, said the APC’s alleged plot to cause unrest in the state, before and during the upcoming elections has been botched and rendered useless by the new law.

FG to engage foreign firm to convert waste from Ogoni Clean up to electricity

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A member of the HYPREP board in charge of the remediation project, Mike Emo, has said the Federal Government is planning to engage a foreign firm that will convert waste from the soon-to-commence clean up of Ogoni land to electricity.

It will be recalled that the MOVEMENT for the Survival of the Ogoni People, MOSOP, expressed worry over the continuous delay in the clean-up of their environment, and had called on world leaders and all men of conscience to intervene in the situation.

It’s on this ground that Mike Emo who is also the National Chairman of host communities of Nigeria producing oil and gas, said the clean up was yet to commence because of the issue of the waste and search for a suitable site where it can be dumped for the conversion to electricity and called for calm from the Ogoni’s.

Domestic violence on the increase – FIDA President says.

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The chairperson of International Federation of Women Lawyers, FIDA, Rivers state chapter, Barrister Anthonia Osadebe says the rate of domestic violence in Rivers state is on the increase.

Barr Osadebe stated this in an out of court interview today where they handled about 20 cases of domestic violence.

She said that the spousal abuse against the men ranged from physical abuse, sexual abuse and emotional trauma.

” We had over 20 cases of domestic violence against men on failure to provide for the family, abandoning everything for their spouses thereby causing them emotional trauma, we also had cases of sexual abuse and physical abuse.

” The funny thing is when these men who abuse their wives discover that the matter is getting serious, they would come for out of court settlement”

Bar. Anthonia Osadebe also listed some of their achievements so far in curbing domestic violence in the state.

“We have tried to tackle spousal abuse in different ways but the one we do mostly is through mediation.

” We counsel these victims which are mostly women, make them understand their rights and obligations, talk to the men also on ways they can settle their differences without getting physical or any form of abuse”

“On the other hand, if the man is stubborn, or does not want to comply, we report to the police and if nothing is done,we take it to court.”

She also mentioned some of their challenges in curbing cases of domestic violence.

“The challenges we are facing are mostly on the women. They refuse to speak out most times when they are abused because they don’t want to leave their homes so they rather prefer to manage the problems until it gets out of hand, then they run to us to seek for help.

“And when we take it up, most times these same women would come to us that they want to pull out because they don’t want to leave their husbands.

” They are never willing to follow the matter to the end to get a logical conclusion.”

She also urged women not to relent when they are in abusive marriages or relationship but that they should learn to speak out so that they can have peace of mind.

PHEDC : Eleme CTC Chairman to offset outstanding community bills.

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The Caretaker Committee Chairman of Eleme Local Government Area of Rivers State, Mr. Godwin Abey-Ollo, has expressed his readiness to work with the management of the Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company, PHEDC, on payment of outstanding debts owed by communities in the area.

The Council boss said this, as he also urged the Port Harcourt Disco to improve remarkably on their supply of electricity to the area.

Speaking at a meeting with Community Development Chairmen of the council and officials of PHEDC in Eleme, over the vandalization of nine transformers in the area, Abey-Ollo urged the company to quickly forward him the outstanding debts of each transformer in the area.

He said as community leaders, the CDCs are responsible for PHED’s and other public facilities in their domain, and also frowned on incessant harassment of electricity workers in the area.

According to him, “I know that a lot of us are dissatisfied with the level of power supply we get, but PHEDC must devise a way to provide us more power supply because criminals thrive better in the absence of light.

“I also want us to be more responsible for PHEDC facilities in our various communities. As leaders, there is some responsibility that is expected of you, you are to educate the community on the need to protect and defend public facilities in our neighborhood.”

Responding, the Corporate Communications Manager of PHEDC, Mr. John Onyi, said constant power supply was not possible because the company was only entitled to 6.5percent of what is generated nationwide, as generation fluctuates between 3000MW and 5000MW.

Onyi explained to the people of Eleme that in the energy value chain, customers were the fifth on the chain after the Nigerian Gas Company, generation companies, Transmission Company of Nigeria and the Distribution companies.

He lamented that the major challenges facing the company were nonpayment of bills by consumers, energy theft and vandalism of its facilities.

“Business thrives when customers use the service and pay for it, that’s our major challenge. It is the money that customers pay as bills that go back to the Gencos, TCN, and NGC through Nigerian Bulk Electricity, NBET, and we also use in improving on our network as well acquire and transformers.

“Eleme for instance, their bill for this month is about N39million for the energy distributed to them. We do not disconnect where bills are paid, we only disconnect when bills are not paid. If everybody pays, there will be no need for disconnection.

“Yes energy is not enough, we agree. But the little that is given is at a cost and it is not free. If you encourage us by paying your bills, PHEDC can even divert every energy at its disposal to this place.

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