Maternal and Reproductive Child Healthcare (MARCH Initiative), an NGO, has called on Government to implement policies that support health and nutritional needs of children with birth defects in the country. The founder of MARCH Initiative, Mrs Olubunmi Aiyedun, made the call in an interview on Thursday. Aiyedun who is also a pediatric nurse, described birth defects as a wide range of abnormalities of body structure or function that develop prenatally and can be identified before or at birth or later in life. According to her, with over seven million newborn babies recorded every year in Nigeria, there are proportions of…
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“The Commission calls on the authorities to carry out a comprehensive investigation into the circumstances surrounding the gruesome murder of the soldiers and apprehend the perpetrators with the view to bringing them to justice.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) says it has recorded new cases of Lassa fever and 20 deaths across 16 states in one week. According to NCDC, the period spans from Feb. 26 to March 3. The NCDC, via its official website, said that for week nine of 2024, there was an increase in the confirmed cases from 96, in week eight. Lassa fever is an acute viral haemorrhagic (excessive bleeding) illness that is transmitted to humans through contact with food or household items contaminated by infected rodents or contaminated persons. ALSO READ: Kidnapping: NMA to support…
A non-governmental organisation, Catalysing Strengthened Policy Action for Healthy Diets and Resilience (CASCADE) has engaged stakeholders in the agricultural sector to strengthen linkages and supply networks for sustainable access to agricultural inputs for smallholder farmers in Nigeria.
The Niger State Government and the Federal Housing Authority (FHA) have assured of its determination to partner in providing affordable housing for Niger residents.
The FCT Chapter of the Nigeria Medical Association (NMA-FCT) has resolved to develop and publish a guideline to support security agencies in the event of the kidnap of any medical doctor in the FCT. The Chairman of NMA-FCT, Dr Charles Ugwuanyi, said this on Wednesday at a news conference in Abuja. Ugwuanyi said, “NMA-FCT, as a matter of urgency, has resolved to develop and publish a guideline to have as a working document in the event of kidnap of any medical doctor in the FCT “The document will include informing the appropriate security agencies and thereafter downing tool after 24…
Before I proceed, let me enlighten Oladejo and his co-travellers that many of us, who have followed the events since Lagos State indigenes renewed their struggle for the retrieval of their constitutionally granted and guaranteed Federating unit otherwise called a state, cannot be distracted no matter how sweetmouthed or prolific writing such propagandist can sound.
The World Bank has pledged to support livestock farmers in Enugu to improve and boost livestock production in the state. In his address, Abubakar explained that the L-PRES was a six-year World Bank-assisted project under the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security. The National Coordinator of Livestock Productivity and Resilience Support Project (L-PRES), Mr Sanusi Abubakar a World Bank-assisted project, pledged the Project Implementation Support Mission at the Government House, Enugu, on Wednesday. The coordinator said the project sought to improve productivity and commercialization of livestock value chains. He said they were in Enugu to lend support and complement…
The market capitalization of the Nigerian Exchange Ltd. (NGX), on Wednesday, further declined by N168 billion or 0.28 percent, following profit taking by investors. Specifically, the market capitalization of listed equities depreciated to N58.947 trillion, from N59.115 trillion, which it opened for the day. Similarly, the All-Share Index, which measures the performance of listed equities, dropped by 0.28 percent or 297 points to close at 104,256.81 from 104,553.31 recorded on Tuesday. Consequently, the Year-To-Date (YTD) return slipped 39.43 percent ALSO READ: Standard Chartered Bank: ‘Form A’ applicants to submit 3-year TCC The market downtown was driven by price depreciation in…
The Lagos State Ministry of Economic Planning and Budget (MEPB) has partnered United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) to train officers in the state’s local governments. The training centred on budgeting to meet needs of vulnerable children and women in communities. It aims to strengthen the capacity of officers to adopt child-centred, gender-sensitive and inclusive planning and budgeting as a path toward addressing social and economic issues. This is contained in a communique issued on Wednesday in Lagos, following a five-day capacity-building workshop. The workshop was for Heads of Departments (HODs) of Economic Planning and Budget in the States’ 20 Local…