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Rising food inflation and child malnutrition in Galadimawa community of the FCT

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By Daniel Adaji Baby Annabel, 15 months old, from Pergasson Galadimawa, a rural cocmmunity in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city, weighs about 5.5kg and cannot walk on her own. She looks too pale and small for her age. She is barely surviving due to acute malnutrition, perhaps, because of her parents’ resolve to see her alive […]Continue Reading
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CISA commends military actions against economic saboteurs, vessel of oil thieves

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By Daniel Adaji A Non-governmental Organisation, Citizens Initiative for Security Awareness (CISA) has commended the drastic measures taken by the Nigerian military in curtailing the excesses of pipeline vandals, sea pirates and other economic saboteurs. The group also decried call for sack of Chief of Defence Staff, Gen Lucky Irabor, by some interest groups over […]Continue Reading
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Report: 34 States fail to meet the 15% adequate health funding benchmark between 2020 and 2022

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Nigeria’s health budget as a percentage of the total budget is declining Public health allocations by state governments per person have fallen from $10.8 per person in 2020 to $8.5 per person in 2022 By Daniel Adaji Federal and several state governments in Nigeria continue to fall short of the 15 percent continental health funding […]Continue Reading
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Shema at 65: Standing tall as a first rate Administrator and erudite leader

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By Olawale Oluwabusola Sometimes early this year in company of a friend, I was introduced to the former Governor of Ekiti State, Chief Segun Oni who was then contesting for the  state gubernatorial seat on the platform of Social Democratic Party (SDP) at his residence in Ifaki – Ekiti. On getting to know that the […]Continue Reading
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Oversight: Zulum shows up 10pm at Bama hospital

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… Demands to know hospital’s problems … To spend days in Bama for humanitarian activities By Daniel Adaji Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum, on Monday night showed up unannounced at the General Hospital in Bama for on-the-spot monitoring of healthcare services’ delivery to the public. Professor Zulum visited the hospital at 10pm, not […]Continue Reading
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Here are countries to where Nigerian doctors flee, and why

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By Theophilus Abbah Though emigration of doctors from Nigeria to developed countries is not a new phenomenon, a recent survey has revealed that the current rate of emigration by doctors which intensified in that last three years may be injurious to the country’s health sector. The survey conducted NOI Poll and Nigeria Health Watch showed […]Continue Reading
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Decade-long sectarian conflict in Plateau threatens N10bn deal with Jaiz Bank

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The people of Plateau State want their beloved Jos ultramodern Terminus Market rebuilt, but not in partnership with Shariah-compliant bank   By Joseph Dangyang in Jos. Conceived in1975 and completed 10 years later in 1985, the forward-looking and sprawling Jos Terminus Main Market, was the socio-economic signature of the old Benue-Plateau, and later Plateau State. […]Continue Reading
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Conflict, climate change and COVID combine to create a breeding ground for sexual and gender-based violence

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By Helen Clark Rape is being used in conflict as a deliberate military strategy, and is feared most by women and girls as soon as the shooting starts. They are right to be afraid. It is vital to highlight just how shockingly common rape and other forms of sexual and gender-based violence have become in […]Continue Reading
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‘Buhari welcomes cooperation on vaccine production’

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By Daniel Adaji President Muhammadu Buhari Thursday in Abuja welcomed the exploratory interactions, between Nigerian biomedical scientists, officials of the Federal Ministry of Health and BioNTech company, to support the production of messenger RNA vaccines in Nigeria. The President met wit Mr. Holm Kellerh , the Executive Chairman of KENUP Foundation and representative of Continue Reading
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Nigeria will Save N2 trillion from Malaria Elimination – Buhari

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By Daniel Adaji President Muhammadu Buhari Tuesday in Abuja inaugurated Nigeria End Malaria Council (NEMC), projecting that the successful implementation of the Council’s agenda and savings from the estimated economic burden of the disease would save Nigeria about N687 billion in 2022 and N2 trillion by 2030. The President told the 16-member Council headed by […]Continue Reading
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