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Traders urged to install security alarm systems

April 12, 2013 13:34
The Union of Small and Medium Enterprises (UNISAME) has urged the SMEs to install collective alarm monitoring systems for security and to combat situations of breaking-in by robbers and gangsters in their houses and units.President UNISAME Zulfikar Thaver warned the SMEs that the law and order situation is getting from bad to worst and whilst the big entrepreneurs can afford to keep personal guards for themselves and their factories, residences and vehicles the SMEs cannot afford expensive security services and therefore advised to install security alarm systems.He urged the

Bill Gates the unknown explores Ghana's health progress

March 26, 2013 22:45
The freckled man with the rectangular glasses instantly recognisable to much of the world stood in the West African heat, staring at data that had nothing to do with selling software. But it was exactly where Bill Gates said he wanted to be, at a tin-roof clinic in a village in Ghana, listening to local health-care workers explain the progress they had made in vaccinating babies.

Puerto Rican authorities urge citizens to get flu shots

March 12, 2013 19:16
San Juan, Mar 12 (EFE).- Puerto Rico's health secretary called on people Tuesday to get flu vaccinations in view of the alarm created by the high incidence of the disease on the Caribbean island. Francisco Joglar asked citizens to go to the vaccination centers distributed around the island, particularly children and teens up to age 19, the age group suffering 57 percent of cases registered in recent days.

Cop killed in attack on vaccination program in Pakistan

February 26, 2013 19:16
Islamabad, Feb 26 (EFE).- A policeman was killed Tuesday in an attack by two armed men on a team administering polio vaccines in the northwestern town of Mardan, a Pakistani police officer told Efe. The incident occurred shortly after noon when two unknown men riding a motorcycle opened fire on the officer, who was providing security while two vaccination team members were inside a home in the Ghalla Dar area, Jamshad Khan said.

Nigeria polio attacks revive conspiracy theory worries

February 26, 2013 01:15
Walking with wooden crutches because polio robbed him of the use of his legs, Aminu Ahmed Tudun-Wada is determined to prevent superstition and misinformation crippling efforts to vaccinate against the disease. "If the West wanted to kill you, it doesn't have to be through polio (immunisation)," said the 53-year-old head of a polio victims' association in the Nigerian state of Kano. "Most of the medicine you take is imported," but somehow not subject to the same fears of clandestine sterilisation, he said.

RPT-Security group suspects Chinese military is behind hacking attacks

February 19, 2013 02:15
(Repeats to additional subscribers, no changes to text) BEIJING, Feb 19 (Reuters) - A secretive Chinese military unit is believed to be behind a prolific series of hacking attacks, a U.S. computer security company said, contradicting claims by China's government that it is not involved in such operations.

Nigeria journalists get bail in polio attacks case

February 14, 2013 15:01
Two Nigerian journalists and a cleric were granted bail on Thursday after being charged over a controversial radio programme on polio vaccines days before deadly attacks on polio clinics. Gunmen attacked two polio clinics in the northern city of Kano on February 8, killing at least 10 people, after Wazobia FM broadcast a story on claims of forced vaccinations. One of the Wazobia journalists said he was beaten and his equipment seized during an altercation at the cleric's home when health officials were seeking to force the cleric to have his children immunised.

Nigeria charges journalists, cleric after polio attacks

February 12, 2013 14:00
Nigeria charged two journalists and a controversial Muslim cleric Tuesday over a radio programme that allegedly repeated conspiracy theories about polio vaccinations days before deadly attacks on polio clinics. Gunmen attacked two polio clinics in the northern city of Kano on February 8, killing at least 10 people, after Wazobia FM broadcast a story allegedly reviving claims that the vaccines are part of a Western plot to harm Muslims.

Gunmen kill 10 in attacks on Nigeria polio clinics

February 8, 2013 23:46
Gunmen killed at least 10 people in horrifying attacks on two Nigerian polio clinics on Friday that dealt a new blow to the campaign to wipe out the disease. Seven women were shot dead at one clinic and a man and two women were killed at another. Both attacks were in the northern city of Kano. Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan condemned the "dastardly terrorist attacks" that came after a local cleric denounced polio vaccination campaigns and some local radio stations aired conspiracy theories about the vaccine being a Western plot to harm Muslims.

Gunmen kill 10 in attacks on Nigeria polio clinics

February 8, 2013 21:00
Gunmen killed at least 10 people in horrifying attacks on two Nigerian polio clinics on Friday that dealt a new blow to the campaign to wipe out the disease. Seven women were shot dead at one clinic and a man and two women were killed at another. Both attacks were in the northern city of Kano. Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan condemned the "dastardly terrorist attacks" that came after a local cleric denounced polio vaccination campaigns and some local radio stations aired conspiracy theories about the vaccine being a Western plot to harm Muslims.
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