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Breaking: NAFDAC approves AstraZeneca COVID19 vaccine for use in Nigeria

 


Breaking:  NAFDAC approves AstraZeneca COVID19 vaccine for use in Nigeria

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control in Nigeria, NAFDAC, has approved the use of Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID19 vaccine for use in Nigeria.

 

At a press conference held this morning February 18, the Director-General of NAFDAC, Professor Mojisola Adeyeye, says the agency got the dossier of the vaccine a week ago, and the NAFDAC safety committee went to work immediately to evaluate its safety and efficacy for Nigerians.

 

Adeyeye said that the vaccine can be stored at 2 to 8-degree centigrade. According to the DG, there are three additional vaccines undergoing evaluation, but the evaluation on Astrazeneca shows that the vaccine is effective against the UK variant of the virus which has been reported in Nigeria. She disclosed that the South African variant has not been reported in Nigeria and that the agency has over 30 herbal medicine undergoing review for listing.

 

The Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine, also known as ChAdOx1 nCoV-19, or AZD1222, is a viral vector vaccine. Scientists used an adenovirus, originally derived from chimpanzees, and modified it with the aim of training the immune system to mount a strong response against SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19).

 

Nigeria is expected to get the first batch of the COVID19 vaccines by the end of February.

 

After 68 years in prison, America's oldest juvenile lifer gets released aged 83

 



Joe Ligon, America's oldest and longest-serving juvenile lifer, has been released from a Pennsylvania prison after spending 68 years behind bars.

 

Ligon was imprisoned in February 1953 at the age of 15, given a mandatory life sentence after pleading guilty to charges from a robbery and stabbing spree in Philadelphia with four other teenage boys which left six people wounded and two people dead.

 

 

A hearing found Ligon guilty of two counts of first-degree murder, and Ligon admitted to stabbing at least one of the eight people stabbed that day but his attorney Bradley Bridge said his client maintains he never killed anyone.


"The child that committed those crimes back in 1953 no longer exists. The person that came out of prison in 2021 is 83 years old, has grown, changed, and is no longer a threat," Bridge said.

 

 

"He has amply repaid society for the damage and harm that he did. And now, it's appropriate that he spends the last years of his life in freedom."


"I'm a grownup now," Ligon said to CNN

"I'm not a kid anymore. Not only am I a grown man, I'm an old man and getting older every day."


In the 1970s, Ligon and his accomplices were granted the option of clemency from Pennsylvania's governor. But since clemency meant being on parole, Ligon rejected it.


He turned down another offer of parole in 2017, stating parole would not grant him the freedom he desired after decades in prison.


"The state parole board presumably would have released him but on condition that he would be under their supervision for the rest of his life," Bridge said.

"He chose not to seek parole under those terms."


Bridge, who has represented Ligon for 15 years now, ultimately argued that a mandatory life sentence for a crime Ligon committed as a juvenile was unconstitutional. 


Bridge brought the case to the federal court and won the issue in November 2020, which ultimately granted Ligon freedom under his own terms in 2021.


Now Ligon is out of prison, and is trying to readapt to society.

 

John Pace, is helping Ligon acclimatize with society.


Pace was only 17 years old when he was incarcerated for mugging and assaulting a man. 

 

He spent the next 31 years imprisoned. After being released, Pace said he felt a sort of sickness after suddenly being exposed to his new reality.


"You're in a prison environment where there's not a lot of stimulation. You're not allowed to have contact with people. Your interactions are very limited. And so, there's not a lot of stimulation," said Pace. 


"So now you come out of prison, and just imagine all this, you can do what you want now. And what do you do with that?"


"There will always be people who think Joe should be in jail for the rest of his life," Pace said. 


"Joe has control over how he demonstrates who he is today, and he hopes that's enough to help other people realize how he's trying to help other people use better judgment."


Ligon said he wanted others to learn from his experience.


"I'm really looking forward to pleasing people and help people the way they're helping me," Ligon said, adding, "meeting some of the younger generation, with some of the older generation, and some of the reporters ... to share some of my story."


Asked what it was like to be back in the world a day and a half after his release, Ligon said:
"Beautiful," he said. "Beautiful."

Arsenal legend, Thierry Henry lined up as the next Bournemouth manager

   Arsenal legend, Thierry Henry lined up as the next?Bournemouth?manager

Arsenal legend, Thierry Henry has reportedly been lined up as the next Bournemouth manager and it is understood he is open to the role

 

The Championship club are ramping up their attempts to fill a position vacated by Jason Tindall, who was sacked after six months following four straight defeats. 

 

The 43-year-old Henry is the head coach of the MLS side CF Montréal. He has previously managed Monaco and been on Roberto Martínez’s coaching staff with Belgium.

 

Henry signed a two-year contract with Montréal in November 2019 but Bournemouth wants to speak to former France international.

 

Former Huddersfield manager David Wagner is thought to have been interviewed, while Henry’s former Arsenal teammate Patrick Vieira has also been linked with the vacancy.

 

Henry began his coaching career with Arsenal's youth teams before becoming Roberto Martinez's assistant with the Belgium national team. He left Belgium to take his first head coach role at his former club Monaco in 2018, but was sacked after three months in charge, having won only two league matches.


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