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 Acting President Goodluck Jonathan has inaugurated a Presidential Advisory Council, the creation and membership of which he announced a week ago. It is chaired by a former Minister of Defence, General Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma (rtd); it has twenty-five other members most of whom are veteran
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Thirteen persons were killed in Jigawa state by cerebro-spinal meningitis (CSM) disease between January and March this year. Reports of the CSM outbreak came as shortage of vaccines was said to have marred vaccination efforts in the affected areas. The Jigawa state Commissioner for Health, Dr |
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