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Malnutrition: Worse than COVID-19 in North West

As the nation turns its attention to the COVID 19 pandemic, bandits have continued their attack on villagers in Sokoto and Zamfara states, resulting in increased displacement of women and

Open defecation: Borehole makes a difference in Kano community

In far away Yammawah Kafawa, a fulani community in Dambata Local Government Area (LGA), of Kano State, at Northern Nigeria, there is no electricity for the children to watch Disney

47 million Nigerians practise open defecation – UNICEF

80 million  in dire need of improved toilet The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has said that no fewer  than 47 million Nigerians still indulge in open defecation in the

Inaugural lecture: Gynaecologist calls for new-born genotype screening

Prof. Afolabi Amid statistics showing that one out of four Nigerians has the sickle cell traits, a professor of obstetrics and gynaecology, Abosede Afolabi, has called on the government to