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Embrace Measles Vaccination, Health Educator Urges Mothers 

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Ahead of the forthcoming round of measles vaccination scheduled to hold from the 12th to 18th of October, a Health Educator, Dr. Diana Babbo, has called on mothers to ensure that their children and wards are vaccinated.
Dr. Babbo, who is the Health Educator, Rivers State Primary Health Care Management Board, said women, particularly those who may have missed the last round of vaccination, would need to take advantage of the opportunity.
“We’re saying that any mother that has possibly missed one of her doses can just walk in, show us her card, we will first look through, and give the child whatever the missed opportunity, of which vaccine”, she said.
Babbo, who made the call while speaking to newsmen on the sideline of a media parley, continued that, “we are also saying that there’re some women that have not given their children any vaccine at all. So long as the child is in that 1 to 5 years bracket, and have not been given any vaccine, we’re combing them out, and we’re starting them on our schedule”.
She noted that while vaccines are for vaccine-preventable illnesses, it has been found that less mothers are continuously embracing vaccination and immunization.
Consequently, she said, “we are seeing all the illnesses that had we won the battle against coming back: polio, whooping cough, yellow fever, measles are all back, and they’re causing a lot of havoc in our communities.
“So, we’re saying let mothers begin to have trust again in our vaccination and immunization”.
She also used the opportunity to call on the media to be a viable ally in creating adequate awareness on the forthcoming round of vaccination and immunization, by providing avenues for more robust media sensitisation.
The categories of children to be vaccinated, she said, are “nine months to five years: those that are in creches 1, 2, and Primary 1 and 2”, while the vaccination is for measles, Human Papilloma Virus (HPV), and routine immunization.
The HPV is for young girls within the ages of 9 to 14 years, who are not yet sexually active, but are exposed to the virus.
Also speaking, the Chairperson, Media Advocacy for Health, Rivers State, Mrs. Jenewari Utomi, urged journalists on effective reportage of health-related issues, particularly those on women and children.
“As Journalists, we constitute a vital arm of stakeholders in the quest to achieve effective and accessible health care delivery in the state, and the nation at large. One way that we can achieve this goal is through our reportage”, she said.
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Rivers Judiciary Reacts Over Allegation of CJ Annual Vacation  …Threatened Legal Action 

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The Rivers State Judiciary has described as embarrassing and misleading a purported online publication by the News Week Electronic Media channel alleging that the State Chief Judge , Justice Simeon Chibuzor Amadi plans to embark on a One Year annual vacation.

 

The Judiciary in a statement signed by the Chief Registrar High Court Port Harcourt, DAVID IHUA-MADUENYI while dismissing the said report described it as malicious and baseless, stressing that the allegation levelled against the person and the office of the Chief Judge of Rivers state was an embodiment of falsehood.

 

The statement reads this “to put the records straight, the Chief Judge did not at any time announce nor intend to announce embarking on any recess or extended recess leave by whatsoever name called, as such leave is alien to the Judicial Officers Calendar of Vacations.”

The vacation calendar of Judicial Officers is of public knowledge, namely: Christmas Vacation, Easter Vacation and Annual Vacation “the statement stated.

 

He therefore urged members of the public and the judiciary community to disregard the misguided publication as it is targeted to causing disaffection , confusion and ill will in the State.

 

Maduenyi however threatened a legal action against the author of the publication, JAKE CLIFFORD and the publishers if they failed to retract the false publication immediately without hesitation.

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NDDC Trains Over 200 Niger Delta Youths In Alternative Dispute Resolution

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Determined to sustained and promote a peaceful stability in the Niger Delta states, the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has trained over 200 selected youths drawn from the nine states of the commission on the use of Alternative Dispute Resolution mechanism (ADR)in settling conflicts and disputes in there various communities.

 

The one -day capacity Building workshop organised by the Department of the Dispute and Conflict Resolution, NDDC with the theme “Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Mechanism: Facilitating inclusive youth Engagement for Transformative peace “held in Port Harcourt, yesterday.

 

Declaring the workshop open,the NDDC managing Director and chief executive officer, Mr Samuel Ogbuku said the essence of the workshop was to build the capacity of the youths in the region on conflicts management through Alternative Dispute Resolution(ADR) mechanism which will enable them handle conflicts in there communities,noting that conflicts is part of human society and happens every day in the society.

 

Ogbuku who was represented on the event by the Director Research, planning and statistics,Dr Patterson OGOM, stressed that Niger Delta region is at the centre of conflict due to its dominance in oil explorations and exploitations and there is the need to acquaint the youths who are always on the front burner during agitations on a more convenient peaceful approach to go about resolving conflicts with out it snowballing to crisis.

 

According to him,the workshop will exposed the youths on how to manage conflicts in there areas when they arise, adding that carrying arms and destruction of national critical assests in there communities was not the best option for achieving peace when conflict arises.

 

Ogbuku averred that Niger Deltans are noted for settling there disputes through dialogue and that informed the choice for the ADR workshop.

 

” What we want to achieve in the workshop is how to resolve and manage these conflicts when they arise.How the we explore other windows of dispute resolution, negotiation, dialogue and nip them on bud before they occur.ADR is Germaine to Niger Delta region.

 

The NDDC MD/ CEO urged the participants to take the workshop serious so that they can take the message back to their various communities and States.

 

Also speaking, the Ag Director, ADR NDDC, Godwin Ayewumi Ogedegbe esq, disclosed that since the inception of the present NDDC management led by Mr Samuel Ogbuku the region has not witnessed crisis as it was in the past , adding that the commission has been proactive and preventive in conflicts management in the region.

 

Ogedegbe averred that the training was designed to teach the youths an alternative ways of resolving conflicts when they happen or occur rather than resorting to arms carrying and destruction of critical national assets in their domain, adding that Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) is the best way to resolving and managing crisis.

 

He opined that peace is critical to the commission and the region, noting that when the youths destroy the oil installations and other critical national assets in the region it will affect revenue accruing to the commission and in turns affects development in the region.

 

“They are going to preach the message learnt here to their fellow youths that there are other ways of resolving conflicts despite carrying arms or destroying oil facilities in there communities as such acts can’t bring peace.”he stated.

 

Our correspondent reports that the participants were drawn from Rivers, Delta, Akwa ibom, Edo, Cross River and Bayelsa states

Others include, Imo, Abia and Ondo states.

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Fubara Approves Building Admin Block, Hostels, Others For IAUE

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Rivers State Governor, Sir Siminalayi Fubara, has approved the construction of key infrastructural projects in Ignatius Ajuru University of Education (IAUE).
The Governor, who gave the approval midweek during his maiden visit to the institution, was responding to requests made by the Chairman of the Governing Council and Pro-Chancellor of the university, Chief Adokiye Amiesimaka, said his administration will do everything possible to improve the current state of the University.
Addressing the crowd, comprising virtually the entire university community and its host community, after a tour of the Main Campus, the Governor explained that he had come based on the request made by the Governing Council Chairman to provide additional facilities in the school.
Earlier, the Governing Council boss, Amiesimaka, had stressed the need for the Rivers State Government to intervene urgently in critical areas of the institution.
He noted that the achievements and progress recorded by the institution in terms of infrastructural development were mainly those provided by TETFund, though the University is under the control of the Rivers State Government.
He, however, lauded the University’s Acting Vice Chancellor, Professor Okechuku Onuchuku, “for managing the institution very well despite the lack of government presence”.
In his response, the Governor automatically granted the request made for the building of new hostels for both male and female students, a new administrative block, a health center, and a sports complex.
Addressing students of the university, Fubara appealed to them to “use the rare opportunity provided for them to attain sound education”.
He also urged them to ensure that they remain focused and achieve the purpose for which they are in the university.
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