Health

Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye Diri, has said collaboration between the federal government and states is the panacea to attaining the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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As part of efforts to make healthcare accessible to Nigerians and improve their health conditions, Harley and Rainbow Specialised Laboratories and Diagnostics has announced a three-day free medical outreach to people living in Ikeja and its environs. The free medical outreach, as announced by the Chief Executive Officer of the laboratory and diagnostic center, Dr. Ademolu Owoyele, will allow people …

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Blu Impact, a Non Governmental Organisation (NGO), has distributed 210 water treatment solar sacks to women Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Lagos. Mrs Judith Obiajulu-Isaac, Co-founder, Blu Impact, gave out the items on Tuesday in Lagos at an event organised to teach the beneficiaries the importance of drinking safe water. Obiajulu-Isaac said that her organisation targets vulnerable people in vulnerable …

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The remains of Mr. Oluwashola Kadiri, late husband of the Director of Public Affairs of the Lagos Waste Management Authority (LAWMA), Folashade Kadiri, were laid to rest on Friday, 12th of August, 2022 at the Private Vaults, Atan Cemetery, Yaba, Lagos.

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In his new literary offering, Dele Arogundade, one of Nigeria’s finest poets examines the devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the world economies and the workplaces, but is there a way to Thrive In The MarketPlace: COVID-19 and beyond? SEUN AKIOYE reports. It is hard for those who were alive in the year 2020 to forget the devastation brought …

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WaterAid Nigeria and Kimberly Clark Corporation would commence a project titled Sanitation and Hygiene Improvement Project in Ikorodu North and Ojodu Local Council Development Areas (LCDA) of Lagos State, being the pilot councils. DAYO EMMANUEL, who was at the inauguration of the project in June, also attended a capacity building workshop the two organisations facilitated recently in Lagos for journalists, …

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‘A Gram Of Human Waste Contains Over 10 Million Viruses, Parasites’ Nanbam Michael is the Project Manager on the Kimberly Clark Corporation project being facilitated by WaterAid, Nigeria. The project, titled ‘Sanitation and Hygiene Improvement Project,’ is being piloted in two local councils of Ikorodu North and Ojodu Local Council Development Areas, representing rural and peri-urban communities. Michael, who facilitated at a three-day …

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The Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Right Hon. Abraham Ingobere, represented by the member representing Kolokuma/Opokuma Constituency 2, Hon. Wisdom Fafi, the Head of Service, Dame Biobelemoye Charles-Onyema and the Environment Commissioner, Chief Iselema Gbaranbiri, all pledged support to the tree planting initiative.

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Serene Early-Trobb Concepts, a nonprofit and non-governmental organisation poised towards girl-child empowerment has recently embarked on Pad A Girl campaign for secondary school girls distributing free sanitary pads.

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A Non-Governmental Organisation, the Centre for Children’s Health Education, Orientation and Protection (CEE-HOPE) recently marked the International Menstrual Hygiene Day with a call for government’s intervention in ending period poverty in Nigeria. At a one-day seminar in Lagos which attracted several teenage girls from communities across Lagos and Ogun States and featured talks on rape awareness and career choices, and …

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