Wednesday 25 April 2018

WHO Calls for Greater Investment, Expansion to Prevent Malaria

Rebecca Ejifoma

World Health Organisation (WHO) has joined partner organisations in its continuous call for greater investment and expanded coverage of proven tools that prevent, diagnose and treat malaria across the world.

With this year’s World Malaria Day theme, ‘Ready to Beat Malaria', it underscores the collective energy and commitment of the global malaria community in uniting around the common goal of a world free of malaria.

Foundation to Give Free Treatment, Drugs to Lagos Residents

Lauretta Omosogha

War against Chronic Disease Initiative (WACD), is set to reach over 500 aged persons in Ifako area of Lagos State on Saturday April 28 this year to reduce rate of obesity among other chronic diseases across Africa.

According to the organisation in a media release it issued, with this year’s theme, ‘Obesity as a chronic disease', aims to bring to the barest minimum the rate of chronic diseases especially in Nigeria.

Monday 23 April 2018

Africa Holds First International Nurse Conference in Lagos

Rebecca Ejifoma


In its quest to meet the Sustainable Development Goal 3 (SDG) for the good health and wellbeing of Africans by 2030, Lead Nurse Africa International Foundation in collaboration with the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) is set to host the first International Nursing conference on April 25.

The conference, which will hold from Wednesday April 25 to 28 at LASUTH this year, aims to enhance nurses' capacities for better performance while bridging the gap in the health sector, especially for people in rural areas that have little or no access to quality health care across the Continent.

Thursday 19 April 2018

African Vaccination Week Holds against Cervical Cancer

...Increase in cervical cancer counteracts reduction of maternal mortality in Africa women


Rebecca Ejifoma
The 8th African Vaccination Week is set to be celebrated from 23 to 29 April this year online following experts review that by 2030, cervical cancer will kill more than 443,000 women yearly worldwide, most of them in sub-Saharan Africa.

Cervical cancer remains a leading cause of cancer death among women in Africa. According to the Expert Review of Anti-infective Therapy, by the year 2030, cervical cancer will kill more than 443,000 women yearly worldwide, most of them in sub-Saharan Africa.

Ogun State Takes over Rape Case of Six Years Old

Rebecca Ejifoma


The Ogun State Ministry of Justice has taken over the case of the six years old pupil allegedly raped by her two teachers after the accused were bailed one million naira each last week.
The accused teachers, Leke and Anyawu, were issued bail of one million naira each. But last week, a reliable source disclosed that the proprietress, Mrs. Ifeyinwa Nwachukwu, bailed the teachers two million naira.
https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2018/04/18/ogun-state-takes-over-rape-case-of-six-years-old/

Wednesday 18 April 2018

Over 2,500 Children, Women Find Paradise in Edo

Rebecca Ejifoma, who visited the Uhogua IDP camp in Benin for two days, chronicles the plight of the refugees and how they are adjusting to their new abode.
Children at IDP Camp, Uhogua
It was indeed a bright Thursday morning at the International Christian Centre, Uhogua in Edo State. I had arrived the centre, which is host to a camp for about 3,000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) mostly from the Northern part of Nigeria in a bubbly mood ready to do my beat as a reporter.
The centre could truly be described as beautiful sprawled across a rich, vast and unruffled land. This camp, which was established in 1992 as an abode for orphans, has become a comfortable home for the thousands of IDPs who have traversed the mountains and bushes from insurgent ravaged sections of Northeastern Nigeria.
https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2018/04/17/reprieve-for-idps-in-edo/

Thursday 12 April 2018

6 Yrs-Old Gang Raped by Two Teachers Suffers Stigma, Threats from Proprietress

Rebecca Ejifoma
Peaklane School, where the alleged gang rape case happened
Barely a month after six years old girl, Sofuwa (not real name), was allegedly raped by two male teachers – Mr. Leke and Mr. Anyawu of Peaklane primary school, Ogun state – parents of the victim have finally withdrawn their daughter following the rate of stigma she allegedly suffered in the hands of the proprietress, teachers and other pupils.

Earlier last month, March, the Ogun State Police Commissioner, Mr. Ahmed Iliyasu, ordered the transfer of Leke and Anyawu arrested on Wednesday by the Ajuwon Police for allegedly gang-raping the pupil inside the toilet at Peaklane private school in the Akute area of the state to the Criminal Investigation Department at the Command Headquarters, Eleweran, Abeokuta.

Wednesday 4 April 2018

Obaseki fires Environment Commissioner, Waste Mgt. Board GM

redeploys Perm Sec, Min. of Environment
Lauretta Omosogha

The Governor of Edo State, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has relieved the Commissioner of Environment and Sustainability, Mr. Reginald Okun, of his position while the governor directed that the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Environment, Mrs. Obahiagbon R.E., be redeployed.

This is following the retirement of the General Manager, Edo State Waste Management Board, Mr. Aiyamenkue Akonofua.