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By Ijeoma UKAZU | The United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, has warned of the damaging effects caused by COVID-19 as its growing consequences on children is threatening irreversible harm to education, nutrition and general well-being saying, the pandemic is lurching…
By Ijeoma Ukazu | In a bid to addressing the plight of minority women and vulnerable groups in the society, a non governmental organization, the Mothers And Marginalised Advocacy Centre (MAMA Centre) has called for alls for adequate policy attention…
By Mayowa Adeniran | Save the Children International and the Lagos State Ministry of Health have been taking concerted efforts towards preventing pneumonia which has been identified as one of the diseases killing children under 5 in Lagos. Commemorating the…
The African continent is currently one of the fastest-growing regions when it comes to mobile growth, and financial technology companies that are building services to meet that rapidly-expanding market are getting a lot of attention. In the latest development, Kuda, a startup out…
There is prospect Nigerians keen on knowing details of how Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) funds are disbursed and spent by the Delta State Government may soon have some answers, as Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has won the…
Civil Society Organisations, CSOs, in Africa have condemned attacks on Amnesty International in Nigeria and other Civil Society Organizations that have been demanding for good governance in Nigeria. In a press statement jointly signed by the CSO groups, they decried…
The World Health Organization (WHO) finds that 18.3% of COVID-19 deaths in the African region are among people with diabetes, one of the conditions that global studies have found to increase the risk of severe illness and death among patients…
Former President Jerry Rawlings of Ghana has died from complications of COVID-19. TheCable gathered that the ex-president died at Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra, capital of Ghana, on Thursday morning. A military ruler, who later joined politics, Rawlings ruled Ghana…
While combatting multiple public health challenges, including the COVID-19 pandemic, the Government of Nigeria, with support of the World Health Organization (WHO) and other partners relaunch an accelerated series of mass preventive vaccination campaigns to protect Nigerians against vaccine preventable…
The Lagos State Police Command has dismissed ten police officers and reduced the rank of 18 others for gross indiscipline. The state Police Public Relations Officer, Muyiwa Adejobi, in a statement on Wednesday, said the policemen were tried for different…
