Over 100,000 women with fistula still untreated
Franka Osakwe Despite effort by EngenderHealth and other internal partners, over 100, 000 Nigerian women living with fistula (90 per cent of…
72% of Nigerian Children Have Iron Deficiency-SBN
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…
TMG Elects Abiola Akiyode-Afolabi New Chairman
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…
Sacrilege! Police Arrest Pastor with Guns in Church Premises
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.…
AIICO Stresses Need for Nigerian Workers to Embrace Pension Plans, Announces New Brand Ambassador
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…
HWPL to Host “2nd Annual Commemoration of the WARP Summit”
Heavenly Culture, World Peace, Restoration of Light (HWPL, Chairman Man Hee Lee) is hosting its “2nd Annual Commemoration ofSeptember 18th World Alliance of Religions’ Peace Summit” from September 17th through 19th. At the 2nd Annual Commemoration many of the world’s…
FG to Train 500 Ex-Militants in Agriculture – Boroh
The Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta, retired Brig.-Gen. Paul Boro ,says the Federal Government will train 500 ex-militants in agriculture and aquaculture under its amnesty programme. . Boro disclosed this shortly after his visit to Bio-resources Development…
NGO Urges Campaign Against Menstrual Discrimination
The Health Aid for All Initiative (HAFAI), an NGO, has called on Principals and Teachers of Secondary Schools to champion the campaign against menstrual stigma and discrimination in the country. The Country Director of the NGO, Dr Ugochi Ohajuruka, made…
Man Marries His Smartphone in Church Ceremony
A Los Angeles man has taken his cellphone love to a whole new bizarre level by marrying it in a church ceremony. 34-year-old Aaron Chervenak married his cellphone at The Little Vegas Chapel in Nevada last month in an attempt…
FG Shuts IDP Camps in Yobe, Adamawa
The federal government said yesterday that it is shutting down Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps in the North-eastern states of Yobe and Adamawa. The Director General of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Mohammad Sani Sidi, made this known at…
