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The Senior Divisional Officer of Menchum Division, Abdoullahi Aliou, has officially launched the 5th Covid-19 immunization campaign in Menchum Division, with a call to intensify the fight against Covid-19 pandemic. He noted with dissatisfaction the plethora of misinformation misleading the population and preventing them from receiving the Covid-19 vaccine. Abdoullahi Aliou was speaking during the launching of the immunization campaign against COVID-19. The launching event took place Thursday November 17 at the conference hall of the SDO's office and served as a platform for the Civil Administrator to amplify the call for the fight against misinformation that has greatly jeopardized vaccination measures against the pandemic. In a situational analysis of the Covid-19, the District Medical Officer DMO of Wum Health District, Dr. Elomme Bako stated that the pandemic has been in the Division for over two years with five deadly waves with five deaths recorded so far. In order to bring t...

I heard about 'locks for luck' years ago when i was working on story on how traditional doctors treat mental health diseases. I visited the shrine of one of the doctors in Tubah sub division. There was a long queue of patients waiting to see the “doctor” for different conditions.Among them were women 'searching for the fruit of the womb', typhoid patients waiting with empty gallons in which they would buy their concoctions, people seeking luck in love waiting with their locks in hand. A small store at the entrance of doctor’s compound, rented kitchen stools. The queue was often long so patients rented chairs to sit on while waiting.The store also sold empty water bottles and of course locks! I was told that , the tradi 'doctor' blessed the locks and made incantations aligned to the desire of the client. He locked it & threw the key away to make the desired results permanent.The clients returned home with lock.Lovers locked their desire for "forever aft...