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70-Year-Old African Woman Gives Birth To Twins

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  Namukwaya the Babies’ Mother If you’re a woman in your forties or fifties and you’re losing hope of having babies, this African woman has rekindled your hope of fertility.  Like the biblical Sarah, call it a miracle as this Ugandan woman defies what can be called scientific odds to give birth to twins at the age of 70. On Wednesday the 30th November, Safina Namukwaya of Uganda gave birth to twins at a medical facility in Kampala the country’s capital in what can be described as the miraculous child delivery of the century. Dr Edward Tamale Sali who supervised the delivery of the twins (a boy and a girl) describes it as “extraordinary achievement delivering twins to Africa’s oldest mother at 70” Namukwaya & Her Doctor  Namukwaya, the mother of the babies says, “there’s no way to express my joy at this moment because at 70, when I’m considered weak, unable to get pregnant and deliver, or look after a baby, here is a miracle of the twins. Namukwaya had her first child 23 years ago a

How to Tackle Nigeria’s Deplorable Economic Situation by Abiola Igaga and Bartholomew Okuodo.

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Since the swearing in of the present government on May 29, 2023, the economic index of Nigeria has become worse in all respect. The country is witnessing heightened inflation, social facilities and infrastructures are in a state of pitiable decay, the rate of unemployment is getting worse, criminality including terrorism remains unchecked. The government has shown obvious incapacity and helplessness in evolving micro and macroeconomic policies that effectively addresses the imbalance in the economy, a factor that has adversely affected the value of the naira. To argue that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu seems unprepared for the task of giving national direction to the Nigerian state is not out of point. Kidnapping and the preponderance of terroristic activities in the country have witnessed resurgence. The Naira depreciating to over N1000 to $1 is the worse level of economic degradation that Nigerians ever expected. With the present rate of the naira in competition at the Foreign Exchange

Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter Is Dead

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Rosalynn with husband Jimmy Carter The United States former First Lady, Rosalynn Carter, wife of President Jimmy Carter is dead.  She died on Sunday at the age of 96. Eleanor Rosalynn Carter was born in August 18, 1927 in Plains, GA and got married to her husband Jimmy in 1946. A mental health activist, Rosalynn served as First Lady from 1976 to 1980 and became a public advocate for humanitarian cause. In May 2023, she was diagnosed with dementia and entered the hospice 2 days before she passed on Sunday in Plains GA. She will be remembered for the good legacies she bequeathed in mental health reforms, humanitarian cause, loyalty, fidelity and family values.

Lamentation Of Ribadu by Festus Adedayo

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  Nuhu Ribadu  National Security Adviser (NSA) Nuhu Ribadu, always wears a permanent visor of one who needs to be pitied. Last Monday, however, he advertised far more pity with his pithy speech. The venue was the Chief of Defence Intelligence 2023 Annual Conference in Abuja. His white babanriga fluffing angelically and struggling to cling to his lean frame, Ribadu suddenly skidded off the runway of his prepared speech and went ad-lib. At the juncture where he needed to talk about the “serious budgetary constraints” which he said the present government was facing, Ribadu could not contain what he had stomached before now. “Yes, we’re facing budgetary constraints,” he began, pity shrouding his face like a hail of smoke. “It is okay for me to tell you. Fine, it is important for you to know that we have inherited a very difficult situation, literally a bankrupt country, no money, to a point where we can say that all the money we’re getting now, we’re paying back what was taken. It is serio