Maternal Mortality: Media Practitioners Charged on Continues Awareness Creation
By Alex Uangbaoje, Kaduna Media practitioners has been urged not to relent in creating awareness on the issues that affect women in the society,...
Category: Health
UNICEF Hands over Renovated PHC to Sokoto Govt
By Alex Uangbaoje, Sokoto As part of effort to support the Nigerian government plan to provide ‘One Functional’ Primary Healthcare Centre (PHC) per ward, in...
Curbing Child Sexual Exploitation: Jose Foundation Partners Women Affairs Ministry
By Our Correspondent Child Sexual Exploitation is not alien to Nigeria, it is rooted in culture, tradition and in some cases fetish and ungodly religious...
Mother transfers her womb to her 21-year-old daughter born without womb
A 43-year-old mother has donated her uterus to her 21-year-old daughter in the first surgery of its kind in India. The woman offered to undergo...
Buhari’s wife starts children’s hospital in Katsina
The wife of the President, Hajiya Aisha Buhari, on Thursday, laid the foundation of a 50-bed capacity maternal and child hospital in Daura, Katsina State....
Zamfara : Yandoton-Daji Community, Lauds UNICEF, DFID for Providing Support for 1,215 School Pupils
By Alex Uangbaoje, Zamfara Yandoton-Daji community of Tsafe Local Government Area in Zamfara State, has commended the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and Department for...
Concern as Ebola resurfaces in Congo
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has confirmed the death of one person in the latest outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DPR)....
Kaduna Making Huge Investment in Revitalising PHC – Health Commissioner
By Alex Uangbaoje, Kaduna Kaduna State Commissioner of Health and Human Services, Dr. Paul Dogo, has said that the current administration is making huge investment...
Kaduna Sets Special Budgetline For Children
By Alex Uangbaoje, Kaduna The Kaduna State government said it has set a special budgetline targeting intervention for children under five to tackle pneumonia, diarrhoea...
Group alerts on ‘suspicious’ amendment of tobacco bill
Akinbode Oluwafemi, deputy director, Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN), alerted media executives in Abuja on Thursday, May 4, 2017 on alleged attempts...