Mayowa Adeniran @mayowalive In a bid to raise awareness of maternal and child mortality, Nigeria will mark the 2016 Safe Motherhood Day on the 23rd and 24th of August 2016. The celebration is an initiative aimed at examining issues around availability…
The whereabouts of a mother of three, Olubunmi Uko, said to have walked out of her Fola Agoro home in Somolu area of the state with one of her sons after leaving a suicide note, was still unknown at press…
The Microsoft co-founder and Nigerian benefactor, Mr. Bill Gates has expressed optimism on the capability of Nigeria to defeat polio despite the challenges of accessing the children in the most vulnerable areas for immunization. Gates, who spoke to the Voice…
The Nigerian Army and officers of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC has uncovered another illegal oil well in Lagos State. This came barely two weeks after the Police and other security agencies discovered about 10 houses on…
The Nigerian Army and officers of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC has uncovered another illegal oil well in Lagos State. This came barely two weeks after the Police and other security agencies discovered about 10 houses on…
Franka Osakwe Despite effort by EngenderHealth and other internal partners, over 100, 000 Nigerian women living with fistula (90 per cent of…
Franka Osakwe Seventy two percent (72%) of children in Nigeria have iron deficiency anemia and this has resulted in poor performance at school, nutrition experts have said. Speaking during a workshop organized by Scaling Up Nutrition Business Network (SBN) Nigeria…
The Transition Monitoring Group, TMG, has elected Abiola Akiyode-Afolabi its new chairman. Ms. Akiyode-Afolabi, the executive director of Women Advocates Research and Documentation Centre, will now head the coalition of 400 civil society organisations. She was elected unopposed at the…
The Zone 2 Police Command, Onikan, Lagos State, has arrested a 45-year-old pastor, Joseph Olude, and his church member, Rasak Raheem, for allegedly robbing in the Idiroko-Oke Odan area, a border community between Ogun State, Nigeria, and the Benin Republic.…
In a quest to create values to the growing Pension industry in the country, through public education programs aimed at sensitising the public on the need for Nigerian workers to embrace pension plans, AIICO Pension Managers Limited (APML), a licensed…
