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Approximately two-thirds of men, women, boys and girls in countries where female genital mutilation (FGM) is common say they want the practice to end – according to UNICEF data.

Dwindling income, occasioned by fall in global price of oil will not affect the Kano state government’s commitment towards the eradication of polio meningitis, the state governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, has assured. “We revitalized our internal revenue agency to avoid over dependence on federal allocation and ultimately to ensure sustainability of…

With over 600,000 tuberculosis positive persons, Nigeria is the country with the third highest number of patients of the scourge in the world and until the introduction of the Active Case Finding, ACF; recently, hundreds of thousands of patients of the disease have remained unknown

The United Nations on Monday released 13 million dollars from the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) to provide life-saving assistance to 250,000 people in the Northeastern Nigeria.

Global Rights, the international human rights NGO, has again called for the immediate intervention of the Nigerian government in Shikira, a remote rural mining community affected by lead poisoning as a result of artisanal gold mining activities in the area.

The Embassy of the United States of America in Nigeria, in partnership with a community based organization, Mufarka Youth Development Initiative, hosted an Iftar dinner for Almajiri and orphan children to mark the end of a day of fasting by the Muslim faithful in the Holy month of Ramadan Tuesday,…

United Nations (UN) agencies and partners in north-eastern Nigeria are reporting high levels of severe malnutrition and desperate conditions in areas that have recently opened up to humanitarian assistance.

Although not much is being heard about it in the media and it’s rarely a topic of discussion among the general public in Nigeria, child malnutrition kills more children than malaria and measles combined  

By Zikirullahi Ibrahim To the many adversaries who have been circulating false and malicious statements, purporting to have removed my humble self as TMG Chairman, we now know who is in charge.

Follow The Money, a nonprofit advocating for judicious utilisation of public funds by tracking aid meant for local communities in Nigeria, has expressed shock over the failure of the Nigerian government to announce a specific date for the commencement of remediation work in Shikira community, a year after lead contamination…