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Miss Vera Uwaila Omozuwa, a 23 year old leveler Student was brutally raped and assaulted inside a Redeemed Christian Church in Ikpoba-Hill Area in Benin City, Edo State. The perpetrators of this act are yet to be identified. Available information has it that Miss Vera Uwaila Omozuwa, usually referred to as Uwa has been going the Church to read since the COVID-19 lock-down has affected school. She usually goes there to read in the morning hours and return in the evenings. On 27 th May, 2020, she went there to read as usual only for the family to be called later in the evening by the Assistant Pastor of the Church that Uwa was in a terrible condition. The Assistant Pastor was said to have been alerted by the Security man who usually come around in the evenings. When he saw that the door was opened, he thought that Uwa was yet to leave only for him to check and saw her breathing heavily but a closer look made him to raise alarm and put a call to the Assistant Pastor. S...

Speaker of the Edo State House of Assembly (EDHA), Rt. Hon. Frank Okiye, has revealed that he recovered from coronavirus (COVID-19) after 21 days in isolation without infecting anyone with the deadly virus. Okiye, while speaking to journalist in Benin City, said all he did to prevent infesting his aides, family and friends with the disease was strict adherence to government guidelines, especially those on social distancing, compulsory use of facemasks, among others. The speaker, who is the index COVID-19 case in Edo, is among the ten patients who have fully recovered and discharged after testing negative twice for the virus and treated with support from the state government. Some of the survivors were treated at the state’s isolation centres. Okiye also urged residents to complement the state government’s efforts at checking the spread of the virus by making themselves available for the ongoing screening and testing in various centres across the state. Okiye said, “I came i...

Sarah Igunbor responded to 12 Questions raised on Edo What We Need platform with the response she below: 1. Need is something required for survival or to complete a task while a want can be likened to be a desire something to satisfy the need, something people desire that they may or may not be able to attain. 2. Needs assessment is very key and essential its forms the basic to which a body or an organization determines the lapses or gaps preventing them from reaching their goals, That knowing what is working well and what is not and what needs to be done or changed. The need assessment is key in progressing and its an effective tool in the sucesss of an administration or Organization. 3. If we should conduct a wants assessment now I think we would be overwhelmed by the results which would be laced with selfish interest and our desires which is far from being the Needs 4. People have same needs but different wants. Edo Needs Governor Godwin Obaseki to consolidate on the...

Responding to 12 Questions on Edo What We Need  platform, Mike Osakue has these response: 1. Need is something necessary to survive while for Want we can still survive if we don't get it. 2. Needs assessment is encouraged because it is the basic hub that holds all sector be it physical or spiritual for want assessment it may just be an academic exercise which no one would feel to invest energy into seems they are mere dreams which are not Sustainable e.g Obaseki, Ize-Iyamu, Odubu Ogiemwonyi etc are all that Edo State want at the moment but in actual sense they are not Needed in the state. The Only Essential rare gem Needed for Edo State Right now is Rt, Hon. Ogbeide-Ihama. 3. If we conduct a want assessment we may end up wasted precious time and energy because we will still fall back to reality(Need) at the of the day.We may remain in one particular circle without actually moving because we are in actual sense working with mere desires or emotions which have never stood t...

The COVID-19 pandemic is asking us all to think and do things differently. Lets take a look at some examples of businesses that modified their businesses before the pandemic and how their pro-activeness must have paid off during this pandemic. a.       Banks created alternative means of doing business hence majority of their customers are not complaining but those yet to adopt it have issues. b.       Schools are closed down but many students are learning virtually from home using Google classroom tools. c.        In the last couple of years people have gone shopping online with the likes of Jumia, Ali Baba, Konga. d.       Amazon, EBay and the likes save on renting office spaces and avoiding paying tax in most countries where they operate. e.       Opay Bikes in users in Lagos tell you how easy to utilize them. f.    ...

  COVID-19 resulted in some dramatic cost saving changes. One of the most obvious is the way conferences were organized and will likely be organized going forward. Though a number of international many conferences were cancelled and events were called off before of COVID-19, many others held. In addition, the number of seminars, training, meetings, teachings that now goes on online is unprecedented. This will removed some stress from planning and organizing meetings and conferences The large migration to online services has implications for subscription for data services: participants will opt for data networks that can best support their need in terms of speed, availability and cost. The Zoom, a Chinese company founded in 2011, allows its users to host a group meeting with a maximum of 100 participants for 40 minutes free. Now with $15 per month, you can host a meeting with 400 participants. During the current covid19 epidemic, the company grew its active users from l...

The global effect of the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in lots of innovations with positive and negative consequences. The positive consequence is the new ideas and business opportunities created. The negative impact is that many businesses may not recover from the downturn from this pandemic. The response to the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in major global changes even if to some, it seems the world is at a standstill. For one, there is improved clarity about what is an essential and non-essential service. This should actually lead to many people thinking about the essentiality of their services, and the implications for continuing in business. If we flash back, we will remember how we used to patronize photographers’ studios Smart phones robbed these studios of patronage though creating new opportunities for others to explore. This explains how a single policy change, can impact the lives of many.  Policies will change post the covid-19 pandemic. Forward thinking...

In Nigeria, if you called in sick and couldn’t make it to work, it was probably because you had Malaria and Typhoid. Did I hear you say Typhoid? You have participated in Fraud! Let me shock you, the rate of Typhoid fever occurrence in Sub-Saharan Africa based on existing studies is less than 1%, unlike malaria prevalence which currently stands above 60% in Nigeria. Yet, typhoid fever, a disease caused by Salmonella typhi and its paratyphi variant is being diagnosed on a daily basis and treated at an unprecedented rate in Nigeria. This situation has gotten so bad that almost every patient; male, female, young and old with febrile illness in Nigeria is treated for typhoid. At every turn, what you hear is: ‘I have just been diagnosed and treated for malaria and typhoid’ or ‘since I treated malaria and its not going I must definitely have typhoid. As a matter of fact, patients who believe they have these twin ailments will abandon doctors who refuse to treat the Typhoid component ...

The Civil Society for HIV/AIDS in Nigeria (CiSHAN) has called on government in all the three tiers to procure self-testing kits to help increase testing for the virus in the country. Besides, the group also urged the government to, as a matter of urgency, disseminate the HIV self- testing guidelines. These, the group argued in a statement, would help bridge the HIV testing gap and ensuring that the country achieve ninety (90%) percent testing target for 2030. The statement which was signed by the group Executive Secretary, Dr. Walter Ugwuocha also noted availability of the self-testing kits will further provide access to people who don’t feel comfortable going to health facilities for testing. He said: “Availability of HIV self-test kit in Nigeria is a welcome development as it will facilitate access of persons. It will also facilitate HIV testing as many times as any individual wants. “The National roll out of the HIV self-testing programme in Nigeria can help clo...

HIV Stigma Case Report: Public label of a Female Sex Worker (FSW) to be HIV Positive Issue: While two FSWs were quarreling in their brothel and exchanging words, Lady A emphatically  said that Lady B was HIV Positive and should pray that God would deliver her from it. She kept on repeating it to the hearing of all, including their clients. After the quarrel, Lady B  noticed that clients started avoiding her based on the label and she felt really bad. Efforts to make Lady A  refute her words proved abortive despite intervention by all at the brothel including the Manager. Action : Lady B reported to some CSOs working on HIV who intervened in the matter. Investigation revealed Lady B was HIV Negative, that Lady A spoke out of anger. Conclusion : Lady A was made to refute her words and apologized to Lady B. Lady B was also asked to apologized to Lady A for calling her children bastards. Both of them  reconciled. Success : The opportunity was used to caution t...

Say NO to depression, say NO to suicide! Do you wish to help? 👪 Stop calling that child a fool or empty vessel. 👪 Stop referring to any child as a failure. 🚻 Stop asking single friends why they are yet to be married. 🚼 Stop asking married couples without kids what they are waiting for. 🚹 Stop asking people why are they too fat. Your stomach is too big just after one child? Oga, you eat so much? Don't you do exercise? Please it's none of your business 🚷 Stop telling people to add up a little. You look skinny, why? Be careful. You're not feeding them 😎 Stop seeing jobless people as lazy people You don't know how hard they are trying to secure one ⚠ Stop blaming people about what fate has offered NOTE: You're just so lucky.  It's not your smartness that got you where you are.  It's called GRACE (common or uncommon), Opportunity, chance, are all as a result of timely mercy. Don't be happy about...

On my Birthday, my initial desire was to hold a session where some contemporary issues that affect our people can be discussed. However, it ended up as a Birthday wish. I have just chosen to use this medium to write on what is the issue that has recurrent burgled my mind. This is what bother me...... "Nigerian Police Officers in Edo State who aid & support RAPIST to escape JUSTICE and make life difficult for victims of Abuse & Sexual violence just name it, rape, defilement,incest and all manners of sexual offences ranging from father, uncles, neighbours  to females in some cases males.  It becomes painful that these persons are easily granted bail (we know how free bail can be);  they in turn go back to taunt their victims that they have secured freedom and boastfully tell them that they would repeat the act again if care is not taken. There are cases where within a span of a short while one person would have been arrested more than twice for sexual offence...