National Youth Service Corps has said the scheme will redeploy any corps member who feels unsafe in states where activities of Fulani herdsmen have led to loss of lives. Director General of NYSC, Mr Suleiman Kazaure, a Brigadier-General, said this on Tuesday during the inspection of the NYSC Orientation Camp in Ede, Osun State. The DG, represented by Director, General Service, Mr Abdulrasak Salawu, said this in an interview with journalists after the inspection. He said the scheme would not post corps members into areas where they were not sure of their security. Kazaure, who said he was impressed with…

There is high level of resistance to antibiotics by a number of serious bacterial infections. This is happening in both high- and low-income countries, World Health Organization, WHO’s first release of surveillance data on antibiotic resistance reveals. The report – Global Antimicrobial Surveillance System (GLASS) published on WHO’s website, reveals widespread occurrence of antibiotic resistance among 500,000 people with suspected bacterial infections across 22 countries. The most commonly reported resistant bacteria were Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Staphylococcus aureus, and Streptococcus pneumoniae, followed by Salmonella spp. Among patients with suspected bloodstream infection, the proportion that had bacteria resistance to at least…