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Dangote Urges Increased Healthcare Funding, as Africa Formally Receives Polio-free Certification

By Ele Ifah Sunday August 29, 2020 147 0

Chairman, Aliko Dangote Foundation, and Africa’s foremost philanthropist, Aliko Dangote has urged governments across Africa, the Federal Government of Nigeria, and State governments to increase their budget allocations to the healthcare sector, to help ensure improved basic healthcare for the people. Dangote, in his remarks at the formal certification of Wild Poliovirus Continue Reading

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‘How media abandoned IDPs’

By Ele Ifah Sunday August 27, 2020 203 0

(A review of ‘Managing Internal Displacement Crisis in Nigeria’)   By Theophilus Abbah, PhD Introduction: An African proverb says ‘pregnancy can never be hidden with bare hands.’ Springing from the imagery and significance of this proverb, and in the context of internal displacements in Nigeria, one could say it corresponds with the society’s attitude to this […]Continue Reading

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Times of Unprecedented Crisis Present Unique Opportunities for Unprecedented Action

By Ele Ifah Sunday August 13, 2020 167 0

By Graça Machel, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo–Iweala, Dr. Vera Songwe, and Maria Ramos COVID-19 has unearthed massive inequalities within our societies and brought to glaring light the unique burdens that women carry the world over. Allocation of response resources should be targeted towards the immediate needs of managing the virus as well as future-looking to simultaneously Continue Reading

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Over 130 killed in Kaduna in 6 months

By Theophilus Abbah July 24, 2020 185 0

No fewer than 130 persons have been killed in Kaduna State this year, according to media reports. Data mined by this website show that most of the killings took place in Kajuru Local Government Area in Southern Kaduna. As a result of the killings many women of Southern Kaduna came out in their numbers to […]Continue Reading

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US agency endorses  electronic cigarette product 

By Ele Ifah Sunday July 20, 2020 160 0

The United States Food and Drug Administration (US-FDA) has authorized the marketing of an electrically heated tobacco system as a modified risk tobacco product (MRTP). This followed 43 months of evaluation of the products branded as IQOS which was developed by Philip Morris International, PMI, a leading US-based global tobacco company. Industry analyst Sebastien Satigui Continue Reading

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AfDB impacts in Africa endorse Adesina’s second-term bid as president

By Theophilus Abbah July 17, 2020 159 0

By Theophilus Abbah The impact of Dr Akinwumi Adesina’s presidency at the African Development Bank (AfDB) in the last five years could be felt and touched in many parts of Africa. They speak eloquently in favour of his re-election as president of the development bank, in spite of opposition from the United States. At an […]Continue Reading

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In Nigeria, African researchers blaze a trail in virus fight

By Ele Ifah Sunday July 17, 2020 185 0

“Strong people don’t put others down — they lift them up.” So says the discreet sign at the entrance to one of the most remarkable research facilities in Africa. Run by a Cameroon-raised, Harvard-trained molecular biologist, the African Centre of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Diseases (ACEGID) has been at the forefront in the fight […]Continue Reading

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Seventeen facts you need to know about Covid-19

By Ele Ifah Sunday June 12, 2020 167 0

With the current cases of the Covid-19 pandemic increasing daily, there have been false information disseminated on the internet. Dr. Faheem Younus, of the University of Maryland, gave some useful facts about the Coronavirus. Below are seventeen facts you probably didn’t know about Covid-19. 1. We may have to live with Covid-19 for months or […]Continue Reading

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Covid-19: How to be security conscious

By Ele Ifah Sunday June 10, 2020 162 0

The year, 2020, has come with unexpected hardship in Nigeria. As a result of Covid-19, many businesses have been shut down, many workers have lost their jobs, even artisans are finding it difficult to put  meals on their table. Government’s palliatives are on the pages of newspapers or in the air waves.  No adequate provision […]Continue Reading

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My Covid-19 experience, by a journalist

By Ele Ifah Sunday June 4, 2020 235 0

A journalist, Kabir Anwar, is the index case of Covid-19 in Yola, Adamawa State, where he works. In this short interview, Anwar tells his story from how he was infected to when he tested negative.   What ailment were you treating before you tested positive to Covid-19? Cough, fever, body weakness, I also had shortness […]Continue Reading

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Why did COVID-19 hit Kano State below the belt?

By Ele Ifah Sunday June 3, 2020 158 0

Kano budgeted N1,805.88 per head in 2020 health projection When Kano state recorded its first confirmed case of COVID-19 on April 10, 2020, many people knew that there were going to be issues in respect to the level of preparedness of the state government to adequately manage the emerging cases of the virus. The irony, […]Continue Reading

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HIV/AIDS Self-testing kit now available in Nigeria

By Ele Ifah Sunday May 21, 2020 143 0

National AIDS and STDs Control Programme (NASCP) have launched a self-testing HIV/AIDS kit called “OraQuick”. The NASCP was instituted to complement efforts by the ministry of health towards the fight against HIV and AIDS.    Organiser of NASCP, Dr. Godwin Emmanuel, in a statement on Tuesday, November 19, gave a report on the OraQuick HIV […]Continue Reading