Yul Edochie is a Nigeria born actor. He hails from Anambra state in the Eastern extraction of Nigeria. He was born in January 7, 1982 in Lagos state. He is the son of the popular veteran Nigerian actor, Pete Edochie. Yul is the last born of a family of six. He is named after the popular Russian actor,Yul Brynner. He was raised both in Lagos and Enugu. He comes from a Christian background. He attended the University of Portharcourt where he studied Dramatic Arts. Yul got married at age 22, an age many considers quite early to settle down. He got married in 2004 to May Aligwe Yul Edochie. They are both blessed with four beautiful kids, Kambi, Dani, Karl and Victory.
Yul Edochie kick-started his acting career in Nollywood in 2005, at the age of 23, when he starred in a movie titled; 'The Exquires', his first movie. He got his big break in 2007 where he acted with Genevieve Nnaji and Desmond Elliott in the movie, 'Wind of Glory' . Moving forward from his big break, Yul has produced and featured in a lot of Nollywood movies. He is currently an actor, director, movie producer, an investor, and ambassador to recognised Nigerian brands. In 2017, he showed his interest in politics when he contested for the governorship election in Anambra state. Unfortunately, he lost the elections
In April 2022, Yul Edochie got married to his second wife, Judy Austin following a rather controversial situation which made Social media agog with his story of polygamy. A matter that didn't sit well with his first wife, May, his fans and followers expressed gross dissatisfaction at his action when he formally introduced his new wife and son to the world. Amidst all this, Yul Edochie has also come forward to declare his intention to run for the 2023 presidential election.
Yul Edochie's unique feature has to be his deep baritone voice, which is usually hard to miss in any movie.
From his movie income, ambassadorial and sponsorship deals, Yul Edochie is estimated to have a net worth of about $1.8million. Yul Edochie has appeared in over 100 movies which include:
Have you ever thought to yourself: "I'd rather be dead than disabled?" It's a usually reflection to most of us. Disability, in everyday thought, is associated with unhappiness, failure, with dependency and with not being able to do things. We feel sorry for disabled people, because we imagine it must be miserable to be disabled.
But in fact we're wrong. It's sometimes called the "disability paradox". Surveys reveal people with disabilities consistently report a happy life, or sometimes even better than, that of non-disabled people.
Below are 5 Ways to put Smiles on the faces of Persons with Disabilities
1. Helping to be Independent
Doing things on their own can make them immensely happy. Relying on others may be unavoidable, but becoming too dependent, even letting yourself become a wee bit lazy and let others do things for you that you can, can siphon away your happiness very quick. Most time, we should allow Person with Disability to do everything a from start to end without rushing to help, unless incase of emergencies.
Being disabled can be stressful, even downright embarrassing to always be the odd one out. “Fitting in,” after all, is a base human need. We must make Person with Disability look at their uniqueness differently, and to love every bit of it , doing that can make Person with Disability blissfully happy.
I'm disabled and I love that I’m not everyone else because it makes me more unique in my own way. Life is too short; to be like everyone else and doing the same old thing. Disability can definitely make life harder, but it can also make you a unique survivor worth noticing.
We all need people in our lives we can relate to, someone who really knows our daily struggles because they understand and care. Being able to vent with someone who really knows your struggles is better than any therapist session by far. According to psychiatrists, visiting a person with a disability might look like the least effort. However, it plays a significant role in their mental and social well-being as it makes them feel appreciated. People living with any form of disability are also human beings and have feelings too. Most of them get stigmatized. So, whenever you are free can spend time with persons with a disability. That is enough reason to make them happier.
Creating a rehabilitation and health center with affordable and inclusive health care services requires a lot of support, not only financially. Rehabilitation centers are very instrumental in helping persons living with disabilities. Many times, they face negation from their own families. Their family members tend to feel ashamed and hide them from society, and that is unacceptable. Our brothers and sisters end up being locked indoors under very harsh conditions, especially persons who come from humble backgrounds. When rehabilitation and health centers started being established, it became like safe heaven. Health care and therapy became accessible. Those who needed wheelchairs got them, and life became better. With that, it will leave many people with disability happier.
This is the most meaningful way to make persons with disabilities happy. It is termed as `being inclusive.` People with disabilities need to be represented by leaders who can truly relate to the challenges they face and articulate their grievances. The leaders can also push for reforms that favor persons with disabilities and amend policies that make them look left out. So next time there is an election held, take that responsibility of voting for a person living with a disability and let us give them a voice and power.
Haven listed some point to make Persons with disability happier, our appraisal of life with impairment may have less to do with reality than with fear and ignorance and prejudice. We wrongly assume that difficulties for people result in misery for people.
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In 2023, Alex Otti won the Abia State Governorship elections under the umbrella of the Labour Party
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Every university and tertiary institution with great goodwill would want to produce quality graduates that would compete favorably with their counterparts locally and internationally. In many cases, this is why universities create several programmes with a focus to making their institutions of world class standards in academics, research and development, infrastructure, media, entertainment and much more.
Andre Blaze Henshaw is a well-known TV host, hip-hop singer (rapper) and radio personality in Nigeria. He has hosted the popular Nigeria’s Got Talent show and other reality shows on television. He studied Communications and linguistics at UNIPORT
Fondly called Rita Dominic, Uchenna Nkem is is an amazing actress whose roles are noticeable and loved by many people; she is a recipient of the Africa Movie Academy Award 6 years ago; she studied arts at UNIPORT. You can read Rita Dominic's full biography here
Teria Yarhere is is a notable rapper (singer) from Nigeria who studied at Port Harcourt; his single ‘Bounce’ brought him a respected award ‘Best West African Act’ Gift.
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Muma Gee is very notable for what she is doing (she sings, she acts, she designs and owns a business); she studied Arts at the University of Port Harcourt.
Agbani is not just a beautiful woman but also a beauty queen, she won Miss World in 2001 and has become the first African woman (native) who received this crown; this notable alumnus studied Mathematics and Computers at UNIPORT.
The maternal mortality ratio (MMR) is defined as The annual number of female deaths from any cause related to or aggravated by pregnancy or its management (excluding accidental or incidental causes) during pregnancy and childbirth or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy, irrespective of the duration and site of the pregnancy, expressed per 100,000 live births, for a specified time period. The leading causes of direct maternal mortality in Nigeria are:
1. Obstetric hemorrhage (18.7%),
2. Eclampsia
3. Sepsis (20.6%)
4. Complications from unsafe abortions
5. Anaemia in pregnancy (3.2%),
6. Hypertension (27.0%),
7. Human Immunodeficiency Virus (3.2%)
8. Sickle Cell Disease (2.4%)
The current rate of maternal mortality rate in Nigeria from 2000 2019 is 917.00 per 100,000 live births expressed in annual percentage of 0.86%.
What can be done to reduce maternal mortality in Nigeria?
Strategies that could prevent 4 out of 5 maternal deaths included an integrated and stepwise approach that includes
The skilled attendant is an accredited health professional who possesses the knowledge and a defined set of cognitive and practical skills that enable the individual to provide safe and effective health care during childbirth to women and their infants in the home, health center, and hospital settings. Skilled attendants include midwives, doctors, and nurses with midwifery and life-saving skills. This definition excludes traditional birth attendants whether trained or not.
Maternal and prenatal mortality are still unacceptably high in many countries especially in Nigeria, despite steep increases in facility birth. The evidence that childbirth in facilities reduces mortality is weak, mainly because of the scarcity of robust study designs and data.
Access to antenatal care (ANC) and postnatal care (PNC) services has a great deal of impacts on major causes of infant death and significantly affects trends of mortality in a population. Antenatal care may play an indirect role in reducing maternal mortality by encouraging women to deliver with assistance of a skilled birth attendant or in a health facility.
Referrals are the second easiest way to increase patient volumes, next to making sure that you retain existing patients. People are more likely to trust their primary care physician's opinion over a Google search, after all.
Emergency transport alone had been demonstrated to reduce maternal mortality by as much as 50 per cent.
Access to quality emergency obstetrics care (EMOC) is fundamental to reducing maternal and newborn deaths and is a possible way of achieving the target of the fifth millennium development goal.
In Conclusion, early intensive efforts to improve family planning and control of fertility choices, accompanied by a stepwise effort to scale-up capacity for integrated maternal health services over several years, will save lives and provide equal or greater value than many public health interventions we consider among the most cost-effective (e.g., childhood immunization).
In 1958, Nigeria joined the league of oil producing states in the world. Thereafter, production of crude oil became the major source of government revenue with average production of 2.5million barrels daily. The economy of Nigeria has since then been moulded around proceeds from crude oil to maintain about 65 -70% of government revenue. It generates about 90 per cent of the country's foreign exchange earnings. Thus, the discovery and production of oil pushed agriculture, the traditional mainstay of the economy, right from the early fifties to the backstage. Alas, Nigeria neglected agriculture because of overnight money gotten from crude oil.
Several years down the line, the oil market has suffered notable setbacks, to wit, fall in oil price, fluctuating demand,poor regulatory regime and other market phenomena. It is safe to say that the instability of oil price has been persistent for a long while. Recently, the US Energy information Administration (EIA), recorded that Crude oil prices were generally lower in 2018 than in 2019. But with the outbreak of corona virus in 2020, the price of oil hit its lowest level in 17 years, declining from $59 to $28 per barrel within a month. As it stands presently, oil companies globally can no longer produce in full capacity. Nigeria is currently trading below the Federal Government's benchmark in the oil market. Oil vessels are floating on the sea with no buyer, supply is now more than demand.
It is a public knowledge that the outbreak of Covid19 is such that is crumbling economies of the world and Nigeria is not an exception. As a matter of reality, the mono-product economy of Nigeria even makes it worse. Since the spread of the pandemic in Nigeria, the Government has become restless and short of revenue options. The stay-at-home orders imposed by the government is leading the economy on a slippery-slope as informal businesses and companies have been shut down for weeks. Meanwhile, the most recent estimate puts Nigeria's debt profile at N33 Trillion, still likely to worsen amid the steep decline in revenue associated with falling oil prices. Foreign Investors are now reluctant to hold naira-dominated assets as Naira would not stop falling against the dollar like the wall of Jericho. It was recorded that the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) lost ₦2.3 trillion in two weeks after Nigeria's index case. Little wonder the Federal Government had to cut down the 2020 budget from N10.594 trillion to N10.276 trillion.
The failure to diversify the economy of Nigeria will forever be a serious indictment on successive governments. It is the major reason why the economy remains so fragile and vulnerable to changes in external conditions, especially oil price fluctuations. Each of the past governments deserves to be blamed for this. Nigeria is endowed with several mineral resources and to think that her economy hinges solely on crude oil simply embarrasses logic. Given the present realities, diversifying Nigeria's mono-product economy is the only express way out of the looming recession. Creating several avenues and channels of income generation for the government is now a matter of national emergency and not just mere campaign manifesto. It is time, if not before now, to focus on mining and agriculture. Needful to say that, through agriculture, the three necessities of life – food, clothing and shelter – are made available to man. China, Netherlands and USA remain the largest producers and exporters of agricultural produce in the world. The truth is, demand for agricultural produce is much stable in the world market, given the ever increasing population of the world. There is a dire need for expand in production to meet this global demand.
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Nigeria is Africa's leading consumer of rice, one of the largest producers of rice in the continent and simultaneously one of the largest rice importers in the world. Nigeria ranks the largest producer of cassava in the world, with cassava production of up to 20% of the world. Nigeria also boasts of large scale cultivation of cocoa, peanuts, cotton, palm oil, corn, sorghum, millet,yams, rubber, just to mention a few.
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I strongly believe with purposeful leadership, Nigeria can become the food basket of the world. We have the capacity, we have the population, we have all the resources that is required, which is the human capital and that is the best that is needed. Only by so doing we can become an economic powerhouse in the coming years.
Adeyeye Eyitayo is a public interests enthusiast and lawyer. You can reach him at [email protected]