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Minister of State for Labour and Employment, James Ocholi The Minister of  State for Labour and Employment, James Ocholi (SAN), on Wednesday revealed that the ministry currently does not have data on the number of unemployed Nigerians. It requires the data to enable it prepare the template for beneficiaries of the proposed N5,000 stipends for the unemployed/ vulnerable Nigerians. The minister said this while responding to questions from reporters at the National Secretariat of the All Progressives Congress, Abuja. According to him, the ministry recently commissioned a firm to capture the data of the under-employed/ unemployed to enable it prepare the necessary template for the effective take off of the scheme. He also explained that the ministry has written a memo to the President through the Secretary to the Government of the Federation for it to take over the over 76 federal skills acquisition centres spread across Nigeria. Ocholi said, “Before we got...

A maverick surgeon who plans to transplant a human head onto another body has successfully performed the operation on a monkey, he claims. Sergio Canavero made the shocking claim after a series of experiments on animals and human corpses, according to New Scientist. Canavero said, ‘The monkey fully survived the procedure without any neurological injury of whatever kind.’ Canavero claims that researchers led by Xiaoping Ren at Harbin Medical University connected up the blood supply between the head and the new body. They did not attempt to connect the spinal cord – but Canavero says that the experiment shows that if a monkey’s head is cooled to -15 °C it can survive the operation without brain injury. New Scientist points out that no one has as yet verified Canavero’s claims. Canavero already has a volunteer patient, a severely ill Russian man, Valery Spiridonov, who is willing to attempt the procedure despite the enormous and unknown risks. Canavero has previously admitted, ...