Numa launches artificial healthcare platform online

Health technology company Numa, has launched a mobile phone personal health assistant platform online where patients can have high quality health related information and verified health care professionals with necessary treatment.

The mobile platform, Asknuma, is founded by two former business school students and healthcare professionals Dr. Tobi Obisanya and Mr. Anthony Ajose.

Speaking about the initiative, Co-founder Dr. Obisanya disclosed that the innovative mobile artificial healthcare was set up to subdue the difficulties and bad experiences people encounter in accessing quality healthcare.

Addressing newsmen, he said that millions of people do not have access to quality healthcare, “and this platform will help as a first aid for people to ask about their status and also attend to their complain by prescribing the necessary things they need to do or directing them to a nearby hospital for treatment if needed.

‘We are still at the beginning of the journey and our aim is making this online platform grow because this idea is not for one percent rather it is for the ninety-nine percent of people across Africa.”

He further noted that the company has done every necessary thing in partnering with each health center they direct patients to and it has been effective.

The interactive gathering enabled guests share the good and bad experiences they went through accessing healthcare when it is needed.

Similarly, Mr. Anthony Ajose, also co-founder, added that ‘asknuma.com’ will allow users to access wide variety of healthcare information on various issues or symptoms concerning one’s  health and also create their own profile where they alone can have access to for confidentiality.

One of the participant added that people have the idea of keeping their health status secret to them alone and if something is going on with them concerning their health, they will want to keep it and attend to it their way without consulting a doctor and it may lead to their death.

However, asknuma is a platform that will attend to patients’ need and will keep their secret.

To access the platform, users can visit www.asknuma.com on their mobile phones and laptop.

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Two men jailed for 14 months for attempting to steal car

A Grade 1 Area Court, Kado, Abuja, on Tuesday sentenced two men — Isah Usman and Danjuma Shehu —  to seven months imprisonment each for attempting to steal a car.

The convicts — Usman, 47, and Shehu, 33 —   who reside at Mabushi area of Abuja, were found guilty of a two-count charge of a joint act and attempting to steal a car.

The judge, Alhaji, Ahmed Ado, who handed down the verdict, however, gave each of the convicts an option of N12,000 fine.

Ado warned them to desist from committing crimes, adding that the sentence would also serve as a deterrent to others.

Earlier, Police Prosecutor Florence Auhioboh told the court that the accused committed the offences on April 6 at Eda Plaza, opposite Chida Hotel, Utako, Abuja.

The two men were trying to break into the vehicle, but were sighted by passers-by, who arrested them and took them to Utako Police Station, he said.

The offences contravened Sections 79 and 95 of the Penal Code, Laws of the Federation.

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Olamide, Timaya, Runtown and Others Promise Nigerians Unforgettable Fun At The Glo Mega Music Tour in Awka on Saturday

Nigeria’s most spectacular music stars have vowed to make the forthcoming Glo Mega Music Nationwide Tour the best entertainment experience for fun seekers.

The nationwide show which begins at the Marble Arch Awka in Anambra State on Saturday, April 15 is featuring most of Nigeria’s brightest and best musicians. Globacom calls it the best thing to happen to entertainment industry  in Nigeria in a long while.

The stars billed to perform at the monster concert that will span a period of 6 months include Olamide, Flavour, PSquare, Timaya, Yemi Alade, Runtown, Phyno, Reekardo, Kiss Daniel, Omawumi, Korede Bello and Di’ja. The show will go round a total of 27 cities across the country. Globacom’s also added that it would, in the course of the tour, added another mega star in the Nigerian Music Industry as a surprise package.

“Tell somebody to tell somebody to come and join me live, baby,” says the Egberi Papa of Bayelsa, Timaya, while priming his fans for the tour.

“All Nigerian music A-listers will be on one big stage…if you miss this show, you’re gonna miss everything,” a selection of the expected artistes charge in the show promo already airing nationwide.

The PSquare team remind their fans: “You know we are show-stoppers”, hinting at what they have in store for fun-lovers at the mega show.

Apart from Awka, the Glo Mega Music Nationwide Tour is also slated for Ikeja, Ikorodu, FESTAC and Ajah all in Lagos; Awka; Owerri; Asaba; Calabar; Enugu; Aba; Suleja, Kubwa and FCT, all in Abuja; Port Harcourt;  Ibadan; Ijebu Ode; Abeokuta; Ekpoma; Kaduna; Akure; Lokoja; and Anyigba.

To qualify to be part of the Glo Mega Music Tour, subscribers are required to use a minimum of N2,000 within one month before each show and text “Music” and their preferred location to a short code, 207. For instance, a subscriber who wants to attend the Awka show needs to send by SMS, “Music Awka” to 207.

In the words of Mavin Music diva, Di’ja, “if I were you, I wouldn’t be anywhere else!”

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EFCC bows, begs Dasuki’s aide over degrading press statement

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Tuesday bowed to an order of a Federal High Court in Abuja over alleged falsehood and media trial engaged by the anti-graft agency against a military officer, Colonel Nicholas Ashinze.

Ashinze was Military Assistant to former National Security Adviser, Colonel Sambo Dasuki (rtd).

Justice Kolawole had ordered the EFCC to apologize to Ashinze over a statement which “degraded” the officer as well as portrayed him as guilty in an alleged N36bn fraud.

At the resumed hearing on Tuesday, EFCC begged the court and the defendant, Ashinze.

EFCC claimed that “the error in figure was a mix-up in the body of the release as the headline reflected the correct information.

“The reference to Ashinze as retired is regretted. We have since discovered that he is a serving Colonel in the Nigerian Army”.

Counsel to Ashinze, Mr. Ernest Nwoye, had an hearing on March 21 protested the press statement issued by EFCC in which the defendant was reported to have been indicted by the court for diverting and misappropriating a whopping sum of N36billion.

Apart from the alleged N36bn said to have been diverted and misappropriated, the EFCC statement also referred to serving Colonel Ashinze as a retired officer.

The counsel who drew the attention of Justice Gabriel Kolawole to the offending EFCC press statement, tendered the statement and the newspaper publications at the court to establish bias and misrepresentation of the court proceeding of March 7, 2017 by the anti-graft agency.

Nwoye told the Judge that Colonel Ashinze was never charged by EFCC for any offence on N36billion diversion and misappropriation and wondered where EFCC Media team, that was not present in the court, got its proceeding that the defendant had been indicted for the amount.

The counsel urged the court to condemn Media Trial the defendant is being subjected to as such action if not checked, will lead to misrepresentation of facts by the general public.

Nwoye also tendered newspaper publications that emanated from the EFCC press statement issued by Wilson Uwujaren, Head of Media and Publicity in the EFCC.

Justice Kolawole who was taken aback by the EFCC’s press statement asked the EFCC counsel, Mr. Ofem Uket if he was aware of the press statement and if he ever issued any.

The EFCC counsel denied ever granting press interview in respect of the trial but admitted receiving letter of complaint from Nwoye and that he consulted with EFCC and discovered that the Press Statement was actually released to the media.

Uket, in his defence said that contrary to the charge of N3billion alleged transfer, evidence from witnesses have shown that about N5billion was involved.

However, Justice Kolawole who was not impressed by the argument of the EFCC’s counsel told him that the proceeding would have to stop pending the time the EFCC would put its house in order by stopping to mislead the public on court proceedings.

Justice Kolawole in a short ruling on the protest from Barrister Nwoye said that “It is unfair for EFCC as a complainant in this trial to resort to self-help by engaging the defendant in the media trial at the same time in the court trial.

His words: “If you want to try the defendant in the media, you have to limit yourself to the media. You have to stop misleading the public in the fact of this trial.

“Let me say it for the sake of emphasis that EFCC must stop the use of journalists to distort proceedings in my court. You cannot be engaging in two trial: one in the court and one in the media at the same time.

“If you are not satisfied with my decision to stop this trial pending the time the EFCC retract this offending press statement of my court proceeding, then you can take your case to another court

“This press statement by one Wilson Uwujaren who claimed to be from EFCC is scandalous and prejudice to fair trial of the defendant in this matter.

“In order to prevent media and court trial at the same time with one misrepresenting the order, I have stopped this trial pending the time the EFCC retracts the offending press statement.

“The trial of the defendant has nothing to do with N36billion diversion and misappropriation.

“The retraction has to be done between now and April 13, 2017. And this EFCC witness is hereby ordered to step down from the witness box and come back on April 13, 2017

“The court proper proceeding cannot materialise where records and facts of the case are being distorted by EFCC that is even the complainant in the matter.”

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