To help reduce the number of women dying during childbirth, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has given 3,700 “Mama kits” to pregnant women in Borno State. These kits have important items needed for a clean and safe delivery.
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Activities at the National Orthopaedic Hospital in Dala, Kano State have been badly affected because nurses have gone on a warning strike.
The Senator representing Sokoto East Senatorial District, Senator Ibrahim Lamido, on Thursday, 31st July 2025, flagged off the distribution of free fertilizer for the 2025 wet farming season to his constituents. Speaking during the flag-off in Sokoto, Senator Ibrahim Lamido said that 16 trucks of fertilizer would be distributed to farmers across eastern Sokoto. Represented at the event by Kabiru Sarkin Fulanin Goronyo, Senator Lamido emphasized that the fertilizer was provided free of charge for small, medium, and large-scale farmers, including farmers’ associations in the area. He said no one would be asked to pay a penny, adding that the…
The Niger State Government has declared that the recent cholera outbreak is now under control, with over 320 patients successfully treated and discharged across the state. Commissioner for Primary Health Care, Dr. Ibrahim Ahmed Dangana, disclosed this during a live radio programme, Media Chat, organized by the State Ministry of Information and Strategy. He revealed that fewer than 10 patients remain on admission in health facilities across the state. “Out of the 327 hospitalised patients, we have discharged virtually all. Only a few remain under observation,” Dangana said, while confirming that 14 deaths were recorded during the outbreak. To contain…
Fatima Mohammed Bago, the First Lady of Niger State, has commissioned the Muhammadu Egba Enagi Memorial Primary Healthcare Centre in Dikko, Edati Local Government Area. The project was undertaken in memory of her late father, Muhammadu Egba Enagi. Speaking at the event, Mrs. Bago described the occasion as deeply personal. She noted that the modern health facility was built on the foundation of a modest dispensary her father—a respected educationist and community leader—had established in service to his people. “To witness this place become a centre where mothers will deliver safely, children will be cared for, and the elderly treated…
The Executive Chairman of Niger Foods Security Systems and Logistics Company Ltd, Mr. Sammy Adigun, has described agriculture as a strategic driver of industrialisation and economic development. In a statement signed by the Information Officer of Niger Foods, Rashidat AbdulRahman, Mr. Adigun made this known during a courtesy visit to the Speaker of the Niger State House of Assembly, Abdulmalik Sarkin Daji, in Minna on Tuesday. Addressing the Speaker and other lawmakers, Mr. Adigun highlighted the achievements of Niger Foods within just 18 months of its establishment, noting that the company had attracted both multinational and international investors to the…
The Governor of Kaduna State, Uba Sani, has relieved Professor Muhammad Sani Bello of his duties as Commissioner for Information and member of the State Executive Council. This was disclosed in a statement issued on Tuesday, July 29, 2025, by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Malam Ibraheem Musa. ALSO READ UNICEF appoints Wafaa Abdelatef as new country representative in Nigeria ALSO READ [OPINION] The Rising Cost of Living in Nigeria: A Crisis of Inflation and Accessibility to Food According to the statement, Ahmed Maiyaki, the Managing Director of Kaduna State Media Corporation, has been appointed as the new…
In 2006, I was conducting research on animal traction in Maiduguri under the scorching sun of Ramadan. At the end of the day’s work, I dropped off one of my enumerators at his house, which he amusingly described as being near “London.” I was puzzled but too exhausted to probe further. The next morning, I asked him about his comment. He explained that “London” referred to the graveyard—a satirical jab at the Nigerian elite who often travel abroad, especially to London, for medical treatment but end up returning as corpses. This streetwise cynicism speaks volumes about the irony and futility…
Former Senate President, Senator David Mark, has said that the challenges plaguing Northern Nigeria are largely self-inflicted, attributing them to decades of leadership failure, complacency, and internal contradictions. Speaking in Abuja on Saturday at the third plenary session of the Northern Political Summit, Mark declared that Northern leaders must accept responsibility for the alarming poverty, insecurity, and underdevelopment that have besieged the region. According to him, the North is in decline not because of external sabotage but due to leadership that has consistently failed to harness the region’s vast human and natural resources for collective progress. “The North has no…
The late General Buhari was a man who, on two occasions, was welcomed into office by Nigerians who dared to hope for a better country. The first was in December 1983, and the second was 32 years later, in 2015. I do not want to include 2019, because it was a defining moment when those Nigerians who were believed to be honest proved themselves wrong. Unlike President Goodluck Jonathan, who had four years earlier told the nation that his ambition was not worth the blood of a single Nigerian and conceded defeat, these self-styled men of integrity held on to…