Nigerian Academic Excellence Magazine (NAEM)

 By Vanguard News NNEWI—— General apathy and late arrival of electoral material marred the 2024 Local Government Election in Onitsha North, Onitsha South, Anambra East and Nnewi North Local Government Areas of Anambra State. Complaints of late arrival and lack of voting materials by some people, who were interested in voting, while others who were neither interested nor waiting for the officials and electoral materials to arrive, saw the whole process as a sham.  While some people alleged that what happened today was not an election, others say that the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA-led government in the state refused to follow the electoral law guidelines because of the desperation to claim that their party won the whole 21 local government areas of the state, as other sitting governors in South East and other parts of the country are allegedly doing. In Anambra East Local Government particularly Nsugbe, the home town of Senator Tony Nwoye, residents of the community ...

By Deena Beasley (Reuters)   LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) - Student Zoe Davis, 20, was just weeks into her junior year when she landed back in the hospital with severe sickle cell pain earlier this month. She is doing what she can to prevent the crippling attacks in her arms, legs and abdomen that are becoming more frequent. She knows new gene therapies may provide long-term relief to some of the 100,000 Americans like her who suffer from sickle cell disease. But she's holding off trying one. "It is so new ... I wanted to see more success stories before I get committed to it," said Davis, who is studying veterinary science at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in Greensboro. Her hesitation illustrates a common reason why take-up for the potentially life-changing treatments, which cost $2 million to $3 million in the U.S., is proving even slower than expected,l as interviews with half a dozen U.S. specialists and six sickle cell patients show. Younger pa...

 By EKWEANAEDO news President Tinubu's staunch loyalist and Igbo-Must-Leave-Lagos-Election-For-Yoruba campaigner, Yemi Adenuga is under fire in Ireland, where she is vying for nomination for position in the general election. Irish nationals, who watched her video calling for the Igbo to leave elections in Lagos for the Yoruba, have called on Nigerians to enquire if it is morally right for her to leave Irish election for the Irish? Yemi Adenuga is facing avalanche of serious criticism over nominations to contest in Irish general election. Irish and Nigerian critics have questioned her conscience and moral right to take part in Ireland election when she was involved in hate election campaign that asked the Igbo to leave Lagos for Yoruba during the last election in February 2023.    Go to EKWEANAEDO News for original story and more 

By Martyn Herman LONDON,  (Reuters) -  Leandro Trossard erased the memory of his red card last week by scoring twice as Arsenal squandered a two-goal lead at home to Leicester City but struck twice in stoppage time for a 4-2 win in the Premier League on Saturday. When the Belgian's cool finish made it 2-0 to the hosts in first-half stoppage time it seemed Arsenal might even win by a big enough margin to replace Manchester City as leaders. But James Justin's double stunned the hosts early in the second half as Leicester, almost non-existent in the opening period, somehow found themselves back at 2-2. Arsenal peppered the visitors' goal in search of a winner and winless Leicester's rearguard eventually cracked as Trossard got on the end of Bukayo Saka's cross to make it 3-2 in the fourth minute of stoppage time. Kai Havertz then added a fourth with virtually the last kick of the game as Arsenal moved level with City on 14 points from six games after Pep Guardiola'...

By the Daily Mail  A young woman has claimed that catching covid eight times left her bald and revealed the courage it has taken her to leave the house without a wig. Lydia Morley, 23, from Newport, Wales, first noticed her long, thick brown hair thinning and falling out in the shower last November. 'Whenever I'd brush my hair in the shower, I'd have proper clumps come out,' Lydia said. 'It was getting to the point where it was a little bit strange.' After her father noticed a bald patch on the back of her head in January of this year, Lydia booked an appointment with the GP and was diagnosed with alopecia areata - a disease that occurs when the immune system attacks hair follicles causing them to fall out. Doctors initially put the diagnosis down to stress but Lydia, who claims to be the 'least stressed person ever', now believes her alopecia could be caused by long covid. Lydia wears a platinum blonde wig which is her 'favourite' as it is '...

 By BBC City defender Josko Gvardiol had put the visitors ahead after 35 minutes when he finished smartly from Jack Grealish’s lay-off. However, while Mateo Kovacic and Rico Lewis combined well in covering for the influential Rodri, who has been ruled out for the rest of the season with a knee injury, City eventually buckled during Newcastle’s best spell of the game just after the break. When Bruno Guimaraes played an excellent pass through the City defence, Kyle Walker played Gordon onside and the England forward went down under Ederson’s challenge. Ederson was booked and Gordon kept his cool to send the Brazilian the wrong way from the spot. Pep Guardiola’s side should have been further ahead at the break but Ilkay Gundogan fluffed his attempted chip after Newcastle keeper Nick Pope had presented a clearance straight to City when he was a long way out of his goal. Both sides tried to force a winner, with Newcastle substitute Sean Longstaff going close for the hosts and Bern...

 By Sahara Reporters  Rokia Traore, a renowned Malian singer and guitarist, is set to be extradited from Italy to Belgium following a long-standing custody dispute. Traore was sentenced to a two-year prison term in absentia by a Brussels court last year on charges of parental abduction.   Arrested in Italy this June, Traore challenged the extradition order.   However, her lawyer, Maddalena Claudia Del Re, confirmed on Thursday that “Rokia will have to be transferred to Belgium within 10 days from today.”   Traore's legal troubles began in March 2020 when she was arrested in Paris on a European arrest warrant. The arrest was linked to a Belgian court ruling ordering her to return her daughter, now nine, to the child's Belgian father, AFP reports.   Despite a ban on leaving France, Traore flew home to Mali a few months later, defying the order before any extradition could take place.   The father’s lawyer revealed that he had not had any contact with his...