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Owerri,  Feb. 28  A gender rights Activist,  Mrs Dorothy Njemanze on Friday, said social conditioning was still a major problem hindering women and girls  from aspiring and  asserting themselves in the society as well as harness their potential.  Njemanze said this at a two-day workshop tagged "Gender Reporting for Media Professionals, organised by TechHer-Nigeria in collaboration with Premium Times Newspapers and Ford Foundation. She described social conditioning as a process through which individuals, especially women inherit the grand beliefs and behaviour of her society and act accordingly.  According to her,  the social conditioning surrounding gender issues affects women in many areas of life.  "Women are first, human beings and should not be objectified or put in a 'box', and when they act out of the 'box',  the society sees them  as rebels.  "Social conditioning is one of the reason we hav...

Feb.  28, 2020 The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, on Friday confirmed the first case of COVID-19 (Coronavirus) outbreak in Lagos, saying it was brought in by an Italian citizen. Abayomi, however, said the State Emergency Operations Centre in response to the case and implementing firm control measures has been activated. He said in Lagos that the case was brought in by an Italian citizen who entered Nigeria on Feb. 25 from Milan, Italy for a brief business visit. The commissioner said that the case was confirmed on Feb. 27, and has been reported to the Federal Ministry of Health. Abayomi said that the patient fell ill on Feb.26, and was transferred to Lagos State Biosecurity Facilities for isolation and testing. “COVID-19 infection was confirmed by the Virology Laboratory of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), part of the Laboratory Network of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control. “The patient is clinically s...

The Anambra House of Assembly has called on Gov. Willie Obiano to direct the state Ministry of Health to construct a quarantine facility to check the spread of viral diseases in an event of health emergency in the state. The House made the call in its resolution on Thursday, following a motion moved by Mr Lawrence Ezeudu (Dunukofia) under Matters of Urgent Public Importance. Ezeudu said it was important to have a quarantine facility in an outskirt area to house people afflicted with contagious and dreaded disease separate from other patients and people. He expressed concern over the spread of Coronavirus (Convid-19), Lassa fever and other communicable life-threatening epidemic in the country and the world. “Coronavirus, which emanated from Wuhan in China less than a month ago, has spread to over 26 countries and still counting. “We are aware that the spread of this disease is so massive that 97 people died in a single day in Wuhan, China which is the epicentre of the...