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  • X-Raying funding gaps in Nigeria’s epidemic preparedness

    Adam Alqali December 1, 2020
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    Funding epidemic preparedness and response (EPR) is indeed a multifaceted affair; it requires the funding of a wide-range of interdependent structures and systems, from surveillance infrastructure to sample collection system and testing laboratories.     Without sufficient financial investment by governments at federal, state and local government levels, it is…

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  • INDEPTH |NCDC: The triumphs and travails of Nigeria’s premier public health institute

    Adam Alqali October 26, 2020
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    Established in 2011, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) is mandated to enhance the country’s “preparedness and response to epidemics through prevention, detection and control of communicable and non-communicable diseases.”     Until November 2018 when President Muhammadu Buhari assented to a bill for an act establishing the Nigeria…

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  • PROFILE | Isyaku Yarube: The Moscow-trained medical physiologist researching on memory loss

    Adam Alqali October 14, 2020
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    Isyaku Yarube, the forty-eight-year-old Moscow-trained medical physiologist and academic is on a mission to find “what goes wrong when someone loses their memory (dementia), whether as a result of aging or due to one disease or another.”    In 1990, while still a teenager, young Yarube left his native Tofa…

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  • SuNMaP2 inaugurates malaria tracking group in Kano

    Stephen Enoch September 15, 2020
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    Over the years, funds meant to combat malaria in Nigeria have not yield the desired results as the country still accounts for 25% of global malaria burden, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). In trying to change the current malaria narrative in Kano state, representatives of Civil Society Organizations…

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  • INVESTIGATION | How COVID-19 palliatives got diverted

    Adam Alqali September 11, 2020
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    The COVID-19 palliatives distribution regimes in Kano and Jigawa states have left in their wake a litany of complaints and allegations of diversions against politicians, traditional rulers and even proprietors of Almajiri schools     The sandy, erosion-ridden path leading to Fatsuma Yusuf’s home on the edge of Jaudi village…

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  • ANALYSIS: X-Raying Kano’s implementation of PHC Under One Roof policy

    Khadija Bawas October 10, 2019
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     Kano has made significant progress in the implementation of the PHC Under One Roof (PHCUOR) policy, however an “administratively autonomous and self-accounting Governing Board” is yet to be constituted for the State PHC Board; funding for PHCs is still domiciled at the State Ministry for Local Government while the respective…

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  • NYSC: How young Nigerians are engaging with SDGs through community development service

    Abdullahi Tsanni March 27, 2019
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    The active engagement of young people – such as through Nigeria’s national youth service corps (NYSC) – is without a shadow of a doubt central to achieving peaceful and inclusive societies as envisioned by the United Nations 2030 sustainable development agenda Nigeria’s one-year mandatory National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) was established in…

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  • Kano PTA inducts new excos across 44 LGAs

    Justina Felix August 9, 2018
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    As part of efforts to strengthen the effectiveness of the Parent Teachers Association (PTA) in ensuring quality education service delivery Kano state, the Kano state chapter of PTA and stakeholders including the Kano State Ministry of Education and Kano State Servicom Directorate Tuesday conducted an induction ceremony for new exco…

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  • INTERVIEW: “How we’re providing access to education for marginalized children in rural communities”

    Editor June 6, 2018
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    Gideon Olanrewaju is the founder/CEO of Aid to Rural Education Initiative (AREAi), a non-profit that seeks to improve the access and quality of education available to disadvantaged children in rural communities across Africa   How far have you gone in achieving AREAi’s vision of improving access and quality of education…

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  • Why health budget advocacy should include timely releases, efficient utilization”

    Adam Alqali June 5, 2018
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    Laz Eze, a public health physician and executive director of Pink Oak Cancer Trust, Nigeria’s first cancer treatment fund, has said it was high time health budget advocacy in Nigeria also included ensuring timely releases as well as judicious utilization of funds meant for healthcare, against simply advocating for increase…

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