[ad_1] Oil price, on Friday, edged up to over $9o a barrel for the first time since November 2022. Brent crude, the global oil benchmark, increased by 1.69 percent to $92.23 a barrel, while US West Texas Intermediate jumped 2.02 percent to $89.05 a barrel at 16.46 WAT. Last week, Brent reached $89 a barrel…
[ad_1] The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) has said making new innovations accessible to those who need them most could save two million additional mothers and babies by 2030, and 6.4 million lives by 2040. The foundation made this known in its seventh annual Goalkeepers report, released on Tuesday with focus on maternal and…
[ad_1] The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Monday said malaria death rates in Nigeria dropped by 55 per cent between years 2000 and 2021. The WHO Regional Director for Africa, Matshidiso Moeti, who made this known during the launch of the 2022 Nigeria Malaria Report in Abuja, said incidence recorded from malaria also dropped by…
Juliet Jacob Ochenje The Minister for Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Dr. Betta Edu, has described as unacceptable, the attitude of the management and staff of the North East Development Commission (NEDC) to delivering the organisation’s mandate, warning that it would no longer be business as usual. The Minister, who made this known while addressing…
[ad_1] Oguntola Ibukun and Sonia Biose (Lead Writers) Nigeria, like many other African nations with similar complexities, has had its fair share of challenges in responding to disease outbreaks. In recent years, the country has experienced multiple outbreaks of infectious diseases such as Lassa Fever, Cerebrospinal Meningitis (CSM), Ebola, resurgences of Yellow Fever and Mpox,…
[ad_1] The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has called for urgent action to accelerate the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN-SDGs) and reduce maternal and child mortality. This was contained in the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s seventh annual Goalkeepers Report released on Tuesday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Goalkeepers Report…
[ad_1] Nearly 3,000 have died and around 10,000 are feared missing after massive floods ravaged parts of eastern Libya. Major parts of the city of Derna — home to approximately 100,000 people — were swept away on Sunday after Storm Daniel, an extremely deadly Mediterranean tropical-like cyclone, collapsed two dams. The dams were said to…
[ad_1] Health minister Ali Pate has commended the U.S. and other partners for investing $900 million in Nigeria’s malaria, HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis programmes. He gave the commendation on Monday in Abuja when he received John Nkengasong, the U.S. Global AIDS coordinator and special representative for Global Health Diplomacy, the United States President’s Emergency Plan for…
[ad_1] The African Centre for Technical Training (ACTT), a technical and vocational skills training and development institute in Ghana, was last Thursday officially inaugurated at the Adenta Campus in Accra. These facilities encompass an ultramodern plumbing workshop, lecture hall, computer lab, library, health centre, cafeteria, auditorium, and conference room. The occasion marked on the theme…
[ad_1] (Xinhua) 09:03, September 12, 2023 People attend a commemoration ceremony of the 22nd anniversary of the 9/11 attacks in New York, the United States, on Sept. 11, 2023. The commemoration ceremony was held here on Monday to mark the 22nd anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. (Photo by Michael Nagle/Xinhua) NEW YORK, Sept. 11 (Xinhua)…
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