Category: ARTS & LIFESTYLE

The world marked the World Malaria Day (WMD) yesterday, and it was also the time that the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared that no fewer than 602,000 people died of malaria in Nigeria and other African countries in 2021 alone. Nigeria and other African countries are notorious for not doing enough to eradicate mosquitos in their environments. Slums, dirty environment, and stagnant pond water as well as unkept drainage systems are popular in most cities across Africa, just as the government do little or nothing in the area of mass…

To combat the outbreak of cholera in Nigeria, the World Health Organization (WHO) has approved the deployment of about nine million doses of Oral Cholera Vaccine (OCV) in 14 local government areas in nine states, including the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja. The vaccination campaign is a follow-up to an earlier one in which over 1.7 million persons were vaccinated each with two doses of Oral Cholera Vaccination (OCV) across seven LGAs in four states of Bauchi, Jigawa, Yobe and Zamfara. WHO said that Nigeria had made significant degrading in…

After delays occasioned by human rights violations in Nigeria, and intense lobbying, the U.S. State Department has cleared the sale of 12 AH-1Z Cobra attack helicopters to Nigeria worth nearly $1 billion. This development came after U.S. lawmakers lifted objections over human rights concerns levelled against Nigeria. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency on yesterday announced the sale of the helicopters and related defense systems to the Nigerian military. The package includes $25 million for human rights-related training. The sale includes the Bell-made Cobras; 28 General Electric-made T700-401C engines; 2,000 Advanced…

…The outbreak of the disease killed 55 People Even though Cholera has claimed the lives of about 55 people in Adamawa State, the state has declared end to cholera outbreak after finding no suspected case despite weeks of ‘heightened’ surveillance. The declaration was made yesterday by the state’s Commissioner for Health, Professor Isa Abdulahi while addressing newsmen at his office in Yola. Abdulahi said the disease came to an end after it had affected 1,959 people and resulted in 55 deaths. He recalled that cholera outbreak was declared in July…

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has disclosed that 70 per cent of Nigerian children are going through a learning crisis, as statistics from the ‘Learning Crisis in the Nigerian Literacy of 2021’ revealed that 53 per cent of 10-year-olds could neither read nor write. It added that despite having one of the best policies globally, implementation had been a challenge that kept the teacher-pupil ratio at 1: 65. The education manager of UNICEF in Nigeria, Manar Ahmed Sharouda, who announced this in Kano during a media dialogue on Sustainable…

The escalating state of insecurity facing South East states of Nigeria, especially Imo and Anambra has continued to increase to unprecedented levels with the authorities in the affected states practically watching helplessly. On Sunday a number of unspecified unknown gunmen attacked and set ablaze the country home of Commissioner for Justice and the Attorney General of Imo State, Cyprian Akaolisa. It was also gathered that his father’s house in Obibi, Awo-Idemili, in Orsu Council Area of the state was also set ablaze by the invading arsonists. This latest attack is…