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Daily Rendezvous  Millions at risk from cholera due to lack of clean water, soap and toilets, and shortage of cholera vaccine The International Coordinating Group (ICG) on Vaccine Provision calls for urgent fast-tracking of life-saving measures. Geneva/New York, 20 March 2024-- Immediate action is needed to stem an unprecedented multi-year upsurge in cholera cases worldwide, according to the International Coordinating Group (ICG) on Vaccine Provision. Actions include investing in access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene, testing and detecting outbreaks quickly, improving quality of and access to healthcare, and fast-tracking additional production of affordable oral cholera vaccine (OCV) doses to better prevent cases. The ICG manages the global cholera vaccine stockpile. The group includes the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, Médecins Sans Frontières, UNICEF and WHO. Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, finances the vaccine stockpi...

Daily Rendezvous  The United Nations has condemned the reported abductions of Internally Displaced Persons, mostly girls, women and boys in Ngala local government area of Borno state. This is contained in a statement issued by the Resident Humanitarian Coordinator in Nigeria, Mohammed Malick Fal. The state reads, "The United Nations strongly condemns the reported abduction of internally displaced persons (IDPs), many of them women, boys and girls, in the Ngala Local Government Area of Borno State.  XThe exact number of people abducted remains unknown but is estimated at over 200 people." The UN said, "On 29 February, members of a non-state armed group (NSAG) allegedly abducted the IDPs who had reportedly ventured beyond the safety of the trenches surrounding Ngala - from the ISS, Zulum, Kaigama, and Arabic IDP camps - in search of firewood. While an unspecified number of older women and children under 10 have reportedly been released, scores of IDPs remain un...

Daily Rendezvous   I have been in the tour team of Hon. Patricia Yakubu throughout the 21 Local Governments of Adamawa State. The mantra was just one: she's turning water into wine and making many party women walk on water. Her first call was to summon all the APC women leaders and other women party Executive from the ward level to the local government to have a progressive discussion towards the unity of the party. They can focus on supporting the party stakeholders and the 2027 election. Should I remind us that I once said she's on a journey of sacrifice? Based on her past records and curriculum vitae, she's supposed to be at the National Affairs of the party, but she decided to accept the task to come down to the state level to ensure that the change mantra has clinched in the state party affairs of Adamawa. Among the 21 Local Governments we visited, the words of the State woman leader have massaged the emotional quantum of our women party officials and renew...

Daily Rendezvous WHO’s annual malaria report spotlights the growing threat of climate change https://www.who.int/news/item/30-11-2023-who-s-annual-malaria-report-spotlights-the-growing-threat-of-climate-change 30 November 2023 - Despite strides in expanding access to insecticide-treated nets and medicines to help prevent malaria in young children and pregnant women, more people were getting sick with malaria, according to a new report published by the World Health Organization (WHO). In 2022, there were estimated 249 million malaria cases globally, exceeding the pre-pandemic level of 233 million in 2019 by 16 million cases. In addition to the disruptions caused by COVID-19, the global malaria response has faced a growing number of threats, such as drug and insecticide resistance, humanitarian crises, resource constraints, climate change impacts and delays in programme implementation particularly in countries with a high burden of the disease.  The 2023 World...

Daily Rendezvous  In an effort to improve the condition of learning infrastructure through out his constituency, the member representing Demsa, Numan, Lamurde Federal Constituency in the National Assembly, Hon. Kwamoti B. Laori, has commissioned a block of 3 Classrooms in Kodomti Ward of Numan LGA.  In his remark the lawmaker laments the dearth of education infrastructure in most communities across his constituency, reiterates his commitment to ensure its improvement during his tenure. The member stated that a conducive learning environment is essential for effective learning to take place.  Besides offering scholarship to students at various levels of education, the member emphasized that with education comes liberation, promising more interventions in the sector.  The lawmaker used the occasion to appreciate the unwavering support he has received from his constituents and pledges never to disappoint them.  The pe...

Daily Rendezvous TEXT OF PRESS CONFERENCE AHEAD OF THE MAIDEN EDITION OF TGNEWS MERIT AND PRODUCTIVITY AWARD SLATED ON JAN 6, 2023 Ladies and Gentlemen of the press. It is indeed a great privilege for me to sit here in this hallowed vicinity, the correspondents' chapel, my first and most important constituency to make this address. The choice of correspondents' chapel is deliberate, first it is a conclave of reputable journalists in the state and the boiling pot of news in Adamawa State. Most importantly, the publisher and editor-in-chief of this medium is a member of this hallowed chapel. It is on this premise that I wish to state that the TGNews is a child of this chapel and today this child has come to receive the blessings of the parents. The award The management of TGNews in fulfilment of one of its cardinal corporate social responsibilities deemed it fit to acknowledge and reward excellence by different players and stakeholders of our great state who in one wa...