The Permanent Secretary, Lagos State Ministry of Youth and Social Development, Mrs. Toyin Oke-Osayintolu, says many adolescents and young people lack access to basic health care services in Nigeria.
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The Federal Government and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said Nigeria has recorded progress in the area of child protection through the domestication and implementation of the Child Rights Act (CRA).
A chieftain of the All-Progressives Congress (APC) in Kogi State, Hon. Agnes Oziwere-Ojeba, has urged the state’s governor-elect, Ahmed Usman Ododo, to live up to his campaign promises by lifting the economic status of the state through viable projects.
Medical Women Association of Nigeria (MWAN), Lagos branch, has restated its mandate to improve health and well-being of populace, especially women, youths, and children.
The general overseer of the redeemed Christian church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye says the church has spent ₦61 billion on intervention projects across the country.
The OANDO Foundation has advised that environmental education will help address Nigeria’s waste problems.
The Niger Delta Development Commission has commenced a computer-based test for 5,000 applicants from the Niger Delta region for its Foreign Postgraduate Scholarship programme.
Dangote Cement Plc says it has commissioned and handed over several multi-million naira rehabilitated education infrastructure in Lagos Island, a gesture that will benefit 2,500 pupils.
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), says poor and indigent students will not benefit from the students’ loan recently introduced by the Federal Government because of the conditions attached.
The Lagos State Government (LASG) on Saturday inaugurated an ultra-modern student’s union building at the Lagos State University of Science and Technology (LASUSTECH) campus in Ikorodu area of the State.