Laura Bray is not a doctor but some call her a healer. Laura Bray is not a pharmacist but she finds drugs for people. In 2018, Bray’s 9-year-old daughter was diagnosed with cancer. Five months later, the drug she needed to survive, Erwinaze, was in short supply, with a 15-month waiting list. Her daughter, Abby,…

A woman has been jailed for taking a three-year-old British child to Kenya for female genital mutilation (FGM). Amina Noor, 40, from Harrow, north-east London, travelled to Kenya in 2006 where she took the child to a private house for the procedure, the court heard. At the Old Bailey, Noor was sentenced to seven years…

Nigeria among others will benefit from a $50m grant donated to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) by the Government of Japan. A statement by the WFP said beneficiaries of the grant are 20 countries, mostly in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East, adding that the fund would help countries in serious economic crises…

Jumoke Olasunkanmi The Nigerian armed forces said that it has successfully thwarted attempts by nefarious elements to steal oil worth over N2 billion in the South-South region of the country. During the past week, military troops neutralized 254 insurgents and apprehended 264 suspects involved in various illicit activities ranging from oil theft to Kidnapping. Additionally,…

Nigeria may witness another round of fuel scarcity as the Nigerian Association of Road Transport Owners, on Thursday, vowed to stop lifting petroleum products beginning next week Monday due to the high cost of operations. NARTO members have repeatedly raised concern over the high cost of diesel required to power their trucks for the transportation…

To sell water and make a living, Steve relied completely on his donkeys. They pulled him in his cart loaded with its 20 jerry cans to all his customers. When Steve’s donkeys were stolen for their skins, he could no longer work. That day started like most others. In the morning, he left his home…

Jumoke Olasunkanmi President Bola Tinubu on Thursday announced the appointment and reappointment of key figures within the Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare. These changes according to the official statement signed by the president’s special adviser on media and Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale, aim to align Nigeria’s healthcare system with international best practices, enhance the…

Jumoke Olasunkanmi Nigeria’s headline and food Inflation has surged for the thirteenth consecutive month standing at 29.90 percent and 35.41 percent in January 2024 respectively according to the Consumer Price Index (CPI) released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Thursday. NBS report showed that on a year-on-year basis, headline inflation rose by 8.08…

Ogbodo ozioma favour The Federal High Court Abuja has adjourned a case brought before it by the Independence Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) on the trial of Cyril Ndifon, the Dean of Calabar State University (UNICAL), and his lawyer Barrister Sunny Anyanwu who has been facing charges since January 8th. Mrs. Azuka,…

We’ve reached that level, people are very agitated, people are hungry, they are angry”, the Sultan of Sokoto and Chairman of the Northern Traditional Rulers Council, Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III, has said, expressing fear that with millions of Nigerian youths left without jobs and food. Consequently, he said, “Nigeria is sitting on a keg of…