Nigeria
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UNDP ‘urbanizes’ rural communities liberated from Boko Haram insurgency
Nov 11, 2016By Augustina Armstrong-Ogbonna SPECIAL REPORT – Twelve remote communities that were ravaged by Boko Haram insurgency are beneficiaries of a strategic and sustainable intervention from the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), which is providing basic... -
Prikkle Academy: Rural Youths Design Bamboo Solar Lamps To Bring Electricity To Their State
Jun 17, 2016It’s no longer news that there are many streets in urban communities of Nigeria that don’t have electricity. This situation is even more appalling in rural communities where some of the villages do not have an electric... -
WAVA: Why Nigeria Should Restore Immunisation Funds in 2016 Budget
Apr 15, 2016WAVA, a coalition of over twenty women-focused and women-led organisation advocating for sustainable immunization financing to ensure uninterrupted and equitable access to immunization in Nigeria has kicked against the non-approval of the budgetary proposal for polio... -
Nigeria: Is Medical Tourism Ending Anytime Soon?
Apr 10, 2016By Laz Ude Eze George Egbuchulam was a socially active and intelligent young man. I don’t know him personally but a number of my trusted friends who knew him gave a very good account of him.... -
Kachikwu’s Gaffe, Tinubu’s Blast and Nigeria’s Pain
Mar 30, 2016By Laz Ude Eze On Easter Sunday, I observed a mild drama at the NNPC mega fuel station around the Katampe section of Kubwa expressway Abuja, Nigeria. I had rushed to the station around 11.00am... -
Why the Fuss About Gender Equality?
Mar 20, 2016By Laz Ude Eze Seven years ago while on call duty at the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital, I had a female patient referred from a general hospital on account of poor progress in labour.... -
#GEOBill: Nigerian Men React to Rejection of Gender and Equal Opportunities Bill
Mar 20, 2016On March 15 2016, the Nigerian senate rejected the Gender and Equal Opportunities bill (#GEOBill) designed to grant women the same marital rights as their husbands on scriptural and constitutional grounds. The bill which was presented... -
Attend a Town Hall Meeting on Improving the Skills of Traditional Birth Attendants in Sogunro
Mar 20, 2016600, 000 women globally are estimated to die from child bearing, pregnancy and unsafe abortions annually with 99% (594, 000) occurring in developing countries. Regionally, sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia account for 87% of this total.... -
In Pictures: Jos at First Sight
Sep 19, 2015Aah, so recently I had the pleasure of visiting Jos for the first time, and its beauty captured my heart. Right from my first glimpse of it over 30,000 feet above sea level, I just couldn’t stop... -
President Buhari Is Many Things But No Magician [By @vsixejechi]
Sep 8, 2015By V. Ejechi During the last general election that brought Muhammadu Buhari into office as the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, we witnessed a flow of endless promises, promises that were downright outrageous. Yet,...