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Oral sex, decline in condom use, antibiotic resistance implicated by WHO Oral sex is causing the spread of a dangerous gonorrhoea superbug, experts have warned. The untreatable strain of gonorrhoea is rapidly spreading across the world putting millions of lives at risk, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned. Experts said that incurable gonorrhoea has started to spread after becoming resistant to antibiotics, which has been partly caused by oral sex and a decline in condom use. The sexually transmitted bacteria can live at the back of the throat and, because of this, has been evolve immunity to antibiotics used to treat common throat infections. The WHO issued a warning after it confirmed that three people had contracted the superbug. The bacterial infection is normally treated with a short and simple dose of antibiotics. But gonorrhoea has become increasingly resistant to common antibiotics. Bacteria become immune to antibiotics when they evolve new self defense m...

IN CONTINUATION of its clamp down on suspected Badoo members, the Lagos State Police Command in collaboration with other security agencies and local security volunteers have arrested 87 suspected members, while declaring 20 others wanted in connection with the activities of the group in Ikorodu. The 87 suspected Badoo members were arrested in an all-night operation on their hideouts in Owutu and Odongunyan in Ikorodu. The raid was an extensive operation on the two areas, Odongunyan and Owutu. It was necessitated by more intelligence on the membership of the dreaded cult group and their mode of operation. Before the operation, the police in conjunction with members of the Department of State Service, representatives of the Nigerian Army, Lagos Neighbourhood Security Corps and Odua Peoples’ Congress, OPC, met with herbalists (babalawos) in Ikorodu and its suburbs on the need to collaborate with the police to wipe out the cult group in Ikorodu. Thos...