The Director/Chief Executive of the National Teachers’ Institute (NTI) Kaduna, Prof. Musa Garba Maitafsir has emphasized that science and technology education is critical to restoring Africa’s lost glory. He made this statement on Tuesday in Kaduna during the 21st Conference on Mathematics, Science, and Technology Education in Africa (COMSTEDA 21). The event also featured the Annual Strengthening Mathematics and Science Education (SMASE) Africa Delegates Meeting, both hosted by the NTI. The conference was themed, “Empowering The Next Generation Through Innovative STEM Education.” Maitafsir stressed the need for African countries to rethink their strategies and focus on producing the resources needed…
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A new review by the World Health Organization (WHO) finds no evidence that mobile phone use causes brain cancer. The review encompasses research from 22 different countries and finds no connection between mobile phone use, workplace radio frequency electromagnetic field transmission equipment, cell towers, and brain and pituitary cancers or leukemia in adults or children. The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) had previously rated mobile phones as “possibly carcinogenic”. Does using a mobile phone increase your risk of developing brain cancer? A new, expansive review from the World Health Organization (WHO) of existing research says “no.” The WHO…
The National Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (NCAIR) in partnership with Google have announced the launch of an N100 million Artificial Intelligence Fund (AI Fund) initiative.
While COVID exposed the urgency of ensuring that Africa, through Gavi’s African Vaccine Initiative, can manufacture vaccines, the current mpox and cholera outbreaks have painfully underscored the continent’s vulnerability. By Kerry Cullinan African countries affected by mpox are dependent on vaccine donations from wealthy countries, while a dire global shortage of cholera vaccines has forced the World Health Organization (WHO) to advise countries to give people one dose instead of the optimal two. Back in June, the vaccine platform, Gavi, launched the African Vaccine Manufacturing Accelerator (AVMA), together with the African Union and Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention…
The Jigawa state government on Tuesday transferred ownership of the Hadejia Wetland Game Reserve to the Federal Government.
Health experts have emphasised the vital role of proper data coordination in emergency health response and its potential to mitigate the impact of pandemics.
Nasarawa State Government says it’s working towards making mental health services accessible at the Primary Healthcare Centres (PHCs) in the state.
The Executive Secretary, Anambra State Emergency Management Agency, Mr Paul Odenigbo, said some farmers in the state have embarked on premature harvesting of crops to beat the impending flood disaster.
The Director General of the Borno State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), Mr Barkindo Mohammed, has described the situation in flooded Maiduguri town as “terrible.”
It has been revealed that the objective of resident non-indigenes controlling political power in Lagos State is to capture the Centre of Excellence and use their control of the government to deny Lagos indigenes their constitutional rights. This revelation was made in a statement by the De Renaissance Patriots Foundation, a socio-cultural organization representing Lagos indigenes, during a meeting hosted by the Eminent Persons of Ikorodu Division on Tuesday, September 10, 2024. Leading the delegation was the new President of De Renaissance Patriots, Mr. Miftah Bolaji Are, who briefed the hosts on the group’s mission. He emphasized that while the…