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TeenTech Awards While some young teens choose to spend their time watching TV and obsessing over their celeb crush (heck, that's not just teens), there's a specific group of boys who are truly taking innovative steps to create a healthier, cleaner environment. A healthier, cleaner  sexual  environment, that is. Muaz Nawaz, Daanyaal Ali,  and  Chirag Shah,  a group of 13 and 14-year-old students from London's Isaac Newton Academy, wanted to "make detecting harmful STIs safer than ever before" without having to go through testing. So they created "smart" condoms. "We wanted to make something that make detecting harmful STIs safer than ever before, so that people can take immediate action in the privacy of their own homes without the invasive procedures at the doctors," 14-year-old Ali  said . "We've made sure we're able to give peace of mind to users and make sure people can be even more responsible than ever before....

INSPECTOR-General of Police Solomon Arase said yesterday that he would deploy 158 patrol vehicles to fill the vacuum that the removal of military checkpoints will create. The move followed President Muhammadu Buhari’s order on Monday for the immediate removal of military checkpoints. Arase, however, requested for the collaboration of community members to fill the vacuum because his officers were not enough. The IGP spoke in Abuja yesterday at a Stakeholders Consultative Meeting on Improving Police Response to Sexual and Gender-Based Violence and Gender Mainstreaming. He said: “We are set to take over the highway and that is why I am deploying about 158 additional vehicles to the safer highway to take over the spaces that they (military) have just vacated. “But that does not mean that we are not still going to have collaboration with the military. I had deployed 350 earlier. I am deploying 158 to add to that one so that we will be able to dominate the highway.” The police c...

The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) insists that Stephen Keshi “remains the head coach of the Nigeria national team“ despite reports linking him with the vacant Ivory Coast national team job. Keshi was shortlisted as one of 60 coaches pencilled down to take over the job of national team coach by the Ivory Coast Football Federation. Stephen Keshi © Shengolpixs Predictably, the news did not go down well with the NFF whose disciplinary/legal committee promptly summoned the trainer to explain the situation especially as he had been offered a two-year contract as Super Eagles coach. Keshi duly attended the sitting of the committee on Tuesday in Abuja and stated in no unclear terms that he did not throw his hat in the ring to coach the reigning African champions, Les Éléphants (The Elephants). Chairman of the NFF’s legal/disciplinary committee, Barrister Christopher Green revealed exclusively to supersport.com on Tuesday night that further investigation will continue afte...

A 35-year-old woman had to be cut out of a pair after her calves ballooned in size, they described in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry. She had spent hours squatting to empty cupboards for a house move in Australia. By evening, her feet were numb and she found it hard to walk. Doctors believe the woman developed a condition called compartment syndrome, made worse by her skinny jeans. Compartment syndrome is a painful and potentially serious condition caused by bleeding or swelling within an enclosed bundle of muscles - in this case, the calves. The condition caused the woman to trip and fall and, unable to get up, she then spent several hours lying on the ground. On examination at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, her lower legs were severely swollen. Although her feet were warm and had enough blood supplying them, her muscles were weak and she had lost some feeling. As the pressure had built in her lower legs, her muscles and nerves became damaged. She was pu...

Many state governors will at their meeting on Tuesday(today) with President Muhammadu Buhari demand the refund of billions of naira they spent on Federal Government projects in their respective states during the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan. A greater chunk of the money went into the rehabilitation of federal roads in the states. For instance, 11 out of the   36 states of the federation will be demanding the refund of N300.5bn from Buhari. Following their inability to pay their workers’ salaries, many states said a bailout from the Federal Government was the only option available to them. The Nigeria Labour Congress had in May said that 18 states had not paid salaries of their workers. The Nigerian Governors’ Forum, at its meeting on June 18, demanded from Buhari, the refund of money spent by the states on Federal Government projects. The forum argued that doing so was the only option before them since the Federal Government was also not liquid. Their ...

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday ordered the removal of military checkpoints set up in the wake of Boko Haram activities in parts of the country. The order was given a few hours after twin bomb blasts rocked Maiduguri, Borno State on Monday. Thirteen people lost their lives and many others were injured in the incident. The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Defence, Aliyu Ismaila, told State House correspondents that Buhari ordered the removal of the checkpoints during his meeting with service chiefs at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. “The President has instructed the Chief of Defence Staff to get the Chief of Army Staff and Inspector-General of Police to remove all the military men along the roads across the country,” he said. It will be recalled that motorists in places where the checkpoints exist have been facing a harrowing experience because of gridlocks caused by them (checkpoints). One of the worst hit is the Abuja-Keffi highway and some other roads in the Federal Capital...

That is a question the police and legal authorities are trying to ascertain as the Lagos State Police Command arraigned a 52-year-old school teacher, Isaac Ikiabeke, for allegedly raping a five-year-old pupil in the Ikorodu area of the state. PUNCH Metro gathered that Ikiabeke, who is also the proprietor of the school, Brighter Glory School, located on Etunrere Street, raped his victim after school hours. The victim, five-year-old Pat (pseudonym), told our correspondent the father of three had allegedly raped her 10 times. She said, “He has been doing it for some time. He has done it more than 10 times. I am not the only one. He does it with some of us after school hours. I could not tell anybody because he said if I did he would beat me.” The victim’s grandfather explained to our correspondent that his attention was drawn to the sexual assault by some of Pat’s classmates. He said he was shocked, as well as disappointed in Ikiabeke, whom he regarded as a respectable person. He s...

The police in Lagos are on the trail of a suspected cultist, Anu Olokodana, for allegedly killing his friend, Adeleke Awosiga. PUNCH Metro gathered that Awosiga drew Olokodana’s ire when he refused to join his friend’s cult group in the Isheri, Ojodu Berger area of the state. PUNCH Metro learnt that Olokodana, who reportedly celebrated his birthday on the day of the incident, drowned Awosiga in a swimming pool during the party. The party was said to have held at a hotel in the Isheri area. Our correspondent learnt that on Saturday, June 13, 20-year-old Awosiga had come for Olokodana’s birthday bash, which was to last till dawn. It was said an argument, however, ensued during the party, which allegedly made Olokodana to twist his friend’s neck before drowning him. It was gathered that Awosiga’s family, who stayed in the Mowe area of Ogun State, reported the matter at the Isheri Police Division. Our correspondent learnt that the deceased’s corpse was recovered by residents and po...

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday said he inherited a country with virtually an empty treasury from   former President Goodluck Jonathan. Buhari, who met with State House correspondents on Monday to mark his first day in the Aso Rock office, said his administration was being weighed down by debts running into millions of dollars. Although he did not say how much debt he met, he   promised to put in his best to salvage the country from the brink of collapse. Lamenting that it was disgraceful for state and federal workers not to be paid their salaries as and when due, he told the correspondents that he would need their help to avoid a situation where Nigerians might march on him. The President added that the culture of assessing government’s performance in the first 100 days in office was putting pressure on him considering   the mismanaged economy     he inherited. Buhari said, “This culture of 100 days (in office) is bringing so ...

  A founding member of the Peoples Democratic Party and a former Chief of Staff, Bayelsa State Government House, Chief Diekivie Ikiogha, has dumped the PDP for the All Progressives Congress. Ikiogha, said to be a trusted and dependable ally of Governor Seriake Dickson, was one of the brains behind the emergence of Dickson as governor in 2012. Indications of a frosty relationship between Dickson and Ikiogha emerged when Dickson removed him in controversial circumstances as the Chief of Staff, Government House, Yenagoa, and redeployed him to Abuja liaison office. Ikiogha’s loyalists had claimed the redeployment carried heavy political undertones and that it was aimed at easing him out of the mainstream politics of Bayelsa State. The former Chief of Staff, who spoke at a news conference in Yenagoa on Thursday, said he had left the PDP with thousands of his supporters. He said he had already found a home in the APC since the day he decided to join the fold of the progressives. ...

Following a joint appearance at the Cannes Film Festival last month, Charlize Theron and Sean Penn have split up, reports Us Weekly. The magazine’s source claims that the couple broke off their engagement following the trip to the South of France, where Theron was promoting her superbly reviewed summer blockbuster Mad Max: Fury Road. Per the movie-star mole, “Theron . . . was the one to break things off with the fellow Oscar winner.” Since the Us Weekly report broke Wednesday afternoon, E! has also published its own story about the split, citing its own sources. In 2014, Theron told Vogue about the genesis of her romance with Penn. “Sean and I have known each other for 18 years,” the Oscar winner said. “We were just really good friends. And it's been slow going because you are aware that you could screw that up and lose it. We had to think about it."

The Peoples Democratic Party governors have expressed displeasure over the relocation of the Taraba, Rivers and Akwa Ibom states’ election petitions tribunals to Abuja. The governors said this at the meeting of the PDP Governors’ Forum, which held in Abuja on Tuesday night. At the meeting, which ended in the early hours of Wednesday, the Governor of Ondo State, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko, was also elected as the chairman of the forum. Mimiko succeeds ex-Governor Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom State, who is now a senator. Addressing journalists shortly after the meeting that started at 9:30pm on Tuesday, Abia State governor, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu, said his colleagues were not happy about the relocation of the tribunals. “We condemn in very strong terms the relocation of election tribunals in Rivers State, Taraba State and Akwa Ibom State to Abuja,” Ikpeazu said. He also announced that “the PDP governors’ forum unanimously elected Dr. Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo State as chairman of the forum.” ...