 Thanks for staying with us to Tarabah State now. In collaboration with the United States government and the National Agency for the Control of AIDS, NACA, the state has made a move on the second awareness campaign on HIV and AIDS to reduce the incidence rate to zero percent. The director-general of NACA, Cambualiu, who led the U.S. delegation to Jalingo said while the word continued to battle COVID-19, attention cannot be taken off the deadly HIV and AIDS, which still has no cure of vaccine. Dictators in this report. The United States tragedy effort to Nigerian catalyzed fitgipon is part of the delegation's government house Jalingo. Their mission is to intimate the governor on the commencement of second-phase campaign on HIV in view of calling the killer virus admins of COVID-19 pandemic. The DG of NACA says the agency is impressed with the medical structure put in place by Governor Darius Ishakou, which they believe will go a long way in curbing the spread of HIV. Your ability to link the 150 primary healthcare with these three specialist hospitals for supervision, your ability to train traditional medical attendants to attend to pregnant women in the rural areas, give us health and confidence. Governor Darius Ishakou told the delegation that through jolly-breed and concerted effort of his administration in less than a decade, the prevalence rate in the state has dropped from 10.5 in 2012 to 2.9 as of 2018, while the level of stigmatization has gone down drastically through high sensitization. I remember it was Taraba and I think Abia, and so I left my letter of plea with him. I was pleasantly surprised when I met Kathleen and he told me she's coming today, and one of the key points was to reactivate and give us the HIV assistance. The United States Chargedy Affair to Nigeria Kathleen Feed Gibbon believes Taraba offers good grounds for the collaboration to end HIV and AIDS. She's impressed by medical facilities put in place by government, promising to meet critical stakeholders and chance a way forward on their next line of action. Because ultimately the people living with HIV are living within these states, and we challenge the governors to do a number of things. Help allocate more resources towards HIV and user fees and stigmatization. Because the more you see an executive governor setting an example and talking about HIV and making people feel comfortable to go in and identify whether or not they have HIV, that's the first step towards ending the epidemic. The COVID-19 pandemic has drawn the attention of key players away from HIV and AIDS killer, which is yet to get medical breakthrough. Well, unfortunately, Nigeria and indeed the world are still plagued by deadly diseases and this is a call for all hands to be on deck to combat these ailments. Moving on to other more state now, following the ongoing strikes and backed upon by the National Association of Resident Doctors, over 7,000 patients with various illness have tripped out for free medical outreach, organized by the lawmaker representing southern Zondadamawa. The outreach which took place in Tongu Local Government area saw patients from all parts of Adamawa and other states trung the venue. One of the highlights of the four-day medical outreach is a successful surgery of ectopic pregnancies by two patients who could not get treatment as a result of the ongoing strike and backed upon by the National Association of Resident Doctors, NART. The parents of the patients say for over two weeks they have not been able to see a doctor at the Federal Medical Center, YOLA, and could not afford the cost, but as of today their children are recuperating. The lawmaker representing Adamawa southern Zondadamawa, Bilos Yaro says his decision to embark on the exercise is due to the importance he attaches to the health needs and survival of his people. He promises that the medical intervention will not end with the completion of the remaining archages in three local government areas, but will continue while he remains at the National Assembly. I've done things in other areas, but like I keep saying, my priority is health, so that is where I put more of my effort, you know, and like I said in the opening day, you need to fall sick before you know the importance of being healthy, and if you have all the money in this world and you are not well, you will not enjoy that money, so health is number one, then other things can follow. Some of the medical practitioners at the venue lament the series of the challenges they have faced since the nut strike. They however appeal to the federal government to do everything possible to address the needs of the rest inductors. In the position of carrying this treatment, actually the challenges we face, you know, I have to make this one clear. This particular medical outreach is coming up when there is almost a total collapse of the health sector at the federal level, and because of that we have a massive number of people coming from Numan, Cameroon, Yola, and I believe it's because of that problem we have. It was always held in Genye, but now it has come to our area, and it is our people that are going to join us there, so some have come, so we started, we joined hand together with them, they also use our staff here together with them, so we work together with them hand in hand in solving this, serving this free health care here. Earlier, the lawmaker who expressed worry over the massive turnout promised to take up the matter to the National Assembly for swift action. Still in Adamao state, but to security matters, the state police command has arrested over 1184 suspects for various offenses and recovered 28 K47 rifles in the last nine months. State police commissioner Adamao Aliyu who disclosed this says over 400 suspects have already been convicted while 720 are awaiting trial. According to CP Aliyu, the command arrested a 21-year-old suspect in connection with the recent killings of seven in Dasinboate. He said also the slush then apprehended over 400 armed Sheila boys who have been charged to court. The commission of police says the command has equally succeeded in training and retraining of officers through workshops and seminars. Because fighting crime, in fact, crime always, a criminal is always a state ahead of any security agent. If it's not to, we're wrestling in our office on how this, then the criminal will become, that's why we are always after them. You should all take note that criminals are one step ahead of any security agent. So in the other one in mind, we have to wake up and press up to challenge so that the people, tax money that are being paid as our dues or salary will not just go in the drain. Meanwhile, the Damawa State Commandant of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, Mohamed Idris, applauded the Giants' trial to the police command, but however assured of a good work relationship with the police, they completely eradicate drug trafficking in the state. I want to thank the MDLE, who are the primary responsibility that have to handle all illicit substances. And today, we thank him for what is handed over to the MDLE. And like he has said, by the time you take drugs off the society, you are thinking about 60% or 50% of the other crimes, because I'm sure all the people that were arrested with these, you see that drug or substances were arrested with them. They take these to get high. And it's when they get high, they commit what they think ordinary people should not do. And finally, on this week's edition of Plus Reports, the Independent National Electric Commission has commanded the youths for coming out in March 4th. They just concluded the first phase of the continuous voter registration exercise. The first phase of the continuous voter's registration exercise across the country, conducted by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, ended on the 20th of September 2021. The National Commission and Chairman of Information and Road Territory Education Committee, Fester Sokoje, says the exercise witness a huge turn out of young Nigerians, disclosing that some states have completed the process. As of 20 September 2021, we have a total of 2,992,902 youths who have registered online. So in terms of completed registration in Anambra, we have a total of 138,795 completed registrations in Anambra states. But if you look at the figure from the different areas, for instance Sokoto State has a total of 35,202 completed registrations. Quarra State has a total of 30,703 completed registrations. Lagos State has a total of 25,582 completed registrations. Osho State has a total of 63,259 completed registrations. Cross River has a total of 18,938 completed registrations while Rivers has 37,290. So this is the way segregated this registration exercise on the basis of geopolitical zones. Ahead of the 2023 elections, the Commission says it's targeting at least 20 million new voters to the existing one. But how effective is the registration portal and what is the level of awareness created by INEC? If the security situation improves and we are able to deploy to the worst of the registration areas, then the implication is that there's a possibility that we may register over 10 million voters during the second phase. Now what is the awareness level of Nigerians as regards the registration portal? For Nigeria, the literacy level is very low, so I doubt people are really going there to register. I'm aware of the registration. I've not registered, but I have some friends that have registered and it was okay. Despite the sensitization created by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, a lot of people still say they are not aware while orders are not entrusted. Messi Iboko for Plus TV Africa. Well, the question is, do you have your PVCs? Have you registered? If not, please interview to do so during the second phase. 2023 is just around the corner. And that's all on this edition of Plus Report. Please follow us at Plus TV Africa on Facebook and Instagram. And do subscribe to our YouTube channel at Plus TV Africa. I'm Dacinta Ibiko. Thanks for watching.