Recent allegations against officials of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have renewed discussions on the effectiveness of the country’s fight against corruption. Our correspondents, Scholastica JOSEPH and Ijeoma UKAZI, sought t [...]
The continuous use of contraception amid the COVID-19 pandemic, total lockdown of social and business activities is crucial.
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As schools across Nigeria remain closed in an effort to curtail the spread of the deadly covid-19 pandemic, efforts to recover the academic calendar and schemes of work have tilted towards virtual learning. While the method presents a viable alternative to many schools and their students, [...]
The President, Nigerian Infectious Diseases Society, NIDS Professor Dimie Ogoina, speaks on the importance of the appropriate use of the face masks. In this interview with The Abuja Inquirer’s Lagos state correspondent, IJEOMA UKAZU, Ogoina warns against the misuse and abuse of face mask [...]
On March 30, 2020 President Muhammadu Buhari announced a sweeping quarantine for Lagos, Ogun and Abuja in a bid to slow down the spread of the dead [...]
The new Country Director, Pathfinder International Nigeria, Dr. Amina Aminu Dorayi, has said that the lockdown coupled with the stock-outs of family planning commodities, Nigeria likely to experience an increase in unplanned pregnancies and an upward spike in population in the country. Dorayi [...]
As President Muhammadu Buhari eases the lockdown earlier imposed on Lagos, Ogun and Abuja to curb the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic, and enforces interstate travel restrictions by Monday May 4, 2020, the nation is enveloped in uncertain anxiety. Amidst rising cases of infections, totalling 2 [...]
Dr. Emem Omokaro is the Executive Director, Dave Omokaro Foundation, DOF, an organization in special consultative status on Ageing with ECOSOC. She is also the president of the Gerontology Association of Nigeria and the co-chair and convener of the Stakeholders Group on Ageing Africa, SGA. In [...]
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