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KECCoH-dRPC: Improving women and girls’ access to quality healthcare in Kano Emirate
In his bid to ensure his subjects particularly women and girls have access to quality healthcare services, the Emir of Kano, HRH Muhammadu Sanusi II (in 2016) established the Kano Emirate Council Committee on Health (KECCoH). The idea of KECCoH first came about in 2014, in the aftermath…
Read More »International Day of the Girl Child: NGO trains girls on menstrual health
To mark the 2017 International Day of the Girl Child celebrated every year on October 11, a non-profit called Project Forward Everyone on Wednesday hosted a workshop on menstrual health hygiene and self-esteem for adolescent girls from public secondary schools in Ibadan, Nigeria. The International Day of the Girl Child…
Read More »ADVERTORIAL: Linking agricultural sector with key sectors of the Nigerian economy
“The success of the new policy [APP] will be driven by the levels of engagement of market place participants, farmers, states, investors, financial institutions, and communities. Other stakeholders from research laboratories to the Nigeria Customs Service to donors will also play vital roles.’’ – Chief Audu Ogbeh, Honourable Minister of…
Read More »#KnowYourGoals: African Newspage hosts youth roundtable on SDGs
African Newspage will Thursday host an awareness roundtable discussion for community youth activists and students from campuses on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), in Kano, Nigeria African Newspage, a digital newspaper focused on exclusively reporting sustainable development issues in Nigeria and across Africa, is organizing the one-day roundtable…
Read More »ADVERTORIAL: Fish and Aquaculture: From importation to local breeding, self-sufficiency in Nigeria
“Very soon, we are not going to give quota for fish importation. We want everybody to set up their fish farms, employ our people and create jobs for our people. When we came last two years, Nigeria was producing about 700,000 tonnes of fish but this has increased to about…
Read More »Olufunso Owasanoye: “Children’s education is a basic right, should be free and compulsory!”
Olufunso Owasanoye is the executive director of Human Development Initiatives (HDI), a Lagos-based nonprofit working to enhance the effectiveness and accessibility of basic education at the grassroots in Nigeria The Human Development Initiatives (HDI) is implementing a project aimed at enhancing effectiveness and accessibility of basic education at the…
Read More »Forestry and Agro-Proccessing Sectors Key in Growing the Economy
According to Magwanishe, the forestry sector is amongst the most labour-intensive and further demands rural based operations JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, October 5, 2017,-/African Media Agency (AMA)/- The Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry, Mr Bulenani Magwanishe says the agro-processing and forestry sectors are key in growing the economy and create sustainable…
Read More »Humanity Foundation Platform (HFP) hosts fundraising event on child education
The Humanity Foundation Platform (HFP) has Saturday held a fundraising event in Kano to support their education scholarship program tagged: “sponsor a child program.” As a charity, HPF offers legal aid services, education scholarship for less privileged children up to secondary school level as well as empowerment programs for women…
Read More »ADVERTORIAL: Agricultural processing: a guaranteed path to Nigeria’s sustained economic growth
“Nigeria is the largest producer of pineapples in Africa, producing 903,000 metric tonnes, South Africa produces about 100,000, but we import pineapple juice from South Africa. Nigeria is the largest producer of mangoes, 620,000 metric tonnes, South Africa produces about 50,000, but we import the juice from there. We…
Read More »Launch of the strategy: Ending Cholera – A Global Roadmap to 2030
Cholera continues to disproportionately affect the poorest and most vulnerable people worldwide and within each affected country GENEVA, Switzerland, September 28, 2017,-/African Media Agency (AMA)/- Cholera is a disease that continues to affect 2.9 million people each year across 40 countries, many of which are in Africa. While clean drinking…
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Senegal joins growing list of countries that have eliminated trachoma
GENEVA, Switzerland – July 15, 2025 -/African Media Agency(AMA)/- The World Health Organization (WHO) has validated …
