kemi Busari Just like Ebola, Lassa and other recent diseases, the word Zika is becoming as dreaded as ever. The disease which exists mostly in the American axis is transmitted through mosquito. Several responses have followed its recent outbreak…
CSBS news desk In commemoration of the World AIDS Day, an NGO based in Bauchi state, AD Rufai Foundation has conducted free HIV/AIDS test and counselling for over 350 Internally Displaced Persons(IDPs) in the state. The IDPs are taking refuge…
Kemi Busari A Nigerian human rights group; Centre for Human Rights and Social Justice, (CHRSJ) has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to conduct athorough investigation on the remote cause of the missing 2016 budget. Recall that the 2016 Appropriation…
CSBS news desk Committed to life-saving changes for mothers and babies, MamaYe Nigeria has launched the Bauchi State Accountability Mechanism for Maternal and Newborn Health (BaSAM) to improve health care facilities for nursing mothers. The program, which also make available…
CSBS news desk The Director General, National Youth Service Corps(NYSC), Brigadier General Johnson Olawumi has called for more support from organisations, agencies and individuals as the number of graduates being mobilised have become enormous. He said the federal government could …
CSBS news desk The British chancellor, George Osborne, and the Microsoft founder, Bill Gates, have unveiled a plan to spend billions to defeat “the world’s deadliest killer” malaria. Osborne and Gates announced £3bn (US$4.28bn) in funding over the next…
CSBS news desk A South African region has launched a grant scheme for girls who remain virgins throughout their university studies, triggering outrage among human rights groups. The bursary offered in Uthukela, in the south-east of the country near…
CSBS news desk Three United Nations human rights experts have called on the Government of Nigeria to assist in the rehabilitation and reintegration of women and children who escaped or were liberated from Boko Haram captivity. “As the region transits…
CSBS news Desk The United Nations health agency cautioned South-East Asia States last week to remain vigilant against the continuing risks of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS CoV) after Thailand confirmed the sometimes fatal disease in a traveller,…
CSBS news desk Twenty countries in the Americas and about 10 in Africa, Asia and the Pacific have reported cases of the mosquito-borne Zika virus infection according to information delivered by the UN World Health Organization (WHO). “Most are reporting…
