. Continent’s policies, programmes, institutions to mainstream climate adaptation and resilience   By Louis Achi with Agency report The Global Centre on Adaptation (GCA), in collaboration with the African Development Bank (AfDB) and the Wangari Mathai Institute, have reiterated the importance of improving food security in Africa. Prof. Patrick Verkooijen, the Chief Executive Officer…

By Kazeem Akolawole    A coalition of youths, under the aegis of African Health Budget Network (AHBN)’s, Meaningful Adolescent and Youth Engagement (MAYE) group, has called on the Nigerian political leaders, particularly emergent winners at all levels in the 2023 general elections to upscale health funding to 15 percent of the national budget. In an…

  Kazeem Akolawole    President Muhammadu Buhari has inaugurated a 56-member National Advisory Committee on Women’s Economic Empowerment (H-LAC) set up to support Nigerian women and girls in economic development. The H-LAC, according to a member of the committee, Dr Judith-Ann Walker, is significant and important, especially in the context of recent failed attempts to…

. Nigeria’s election season witnessed surge in inflammatory language, hateful and divisive rhetoric   By Kazeem Akolawole    The United Nations (UN) Under-Secretary-General and Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, Alice Wairimu Nderitu, has warned that hate speech, especially if accompanied by policies and practices that discriminate against populations based on their identity often…

By Gom Mirian   The Nigerian military in collaboration with the Nigeria Police Force and the Department of State Services (DSS) have expressed their readiness to synegise towards the success of the February 25 general elections in the country. They disclosed this  at a joint national security briefing held in Abuja towards the forthcoming general…

By Gom Mirian   No fewer than 1,440 cases of  human trafficking were reported in 2022 with  80 conviction secured,according to the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in person (NAPTIP). Director-General of NAPTIP, Prof. Fatima Waziri-Azi, disclosed this on Thursday at a joint conference with the Office of the High  Commission of Canada…

By Juliet Jacob A new mosquito species capable of transmitting malaria, first discovered in the Eastern African country of Djibouti in 2012, has been detected in Kenya, researchers in the East African country have confirmed. The new carrier mosquito, named the Anopheles stephensi, can live in different climates while transmitting plasmodium vivax, the parasite that…

By Juliet Jacob with Agency report Dr. Cecilia Ojukwu, a paediatrician, has urged parents and caregivers to show adequate care and love to children living with Down syndrome. Ojukwu who works with the Isolo General Hospital Lagos, gave the advice in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday. ”Down syndrome is…

. Over 280,000 fatalities in a single year unconscionable – UNFPA By Louis Achi The World Health Organisation (WHO) says one woman dies every two minutes during pregnancy or childbirth, according to the latest data, with too few countries in the world managing to substantially reduce maternal death rates since 2016. The report, Trends in…