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“Injectables, most preferred child birth spacing method among our clients”
With the increasing advocacy for child birth spacing (CBS) in Kano, it has been revealed that most CBS clients in Nassarawa Local Government Area (LGA) of the state prefer the use of injectables CBS commodities, according to CBS providers at primary health care facilities in the LGA. While…
Read More »COVID-19: Di’Ja hosts online concert to raise funds for 300 children, 1,000 vulnerable families
One of Nigeria’s leading music artistes, Hadiza Olo, better known by her stage name Di’Ja, is hosting an online benefit concert to raise funds for education and healthcare for three hundred children and 1,000 vulnerable families, who have been adversely affected by the coronavirus pandemic in Abia, Kaduna, and Lagos…
Read More »More labs, sample collection outlets improving access to COVID-19 testing in Kano
Against the backdrop of an initial shaky response to COVID-19, thanks to three testing laboratories and even more sample collection outlets, COVID-19 testing has now become more accessible to citizens of Kano state At the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak in Kano, there was not a single laboratory…
Read More »Amidst COVID-19 lockdown, lack of commodities threatens child birth spacing services in Kano.
In the midst of the COVID-19 lockdown, the shortage of Child Birth Spacing (CBS) commodities across Primary Health Care (PHCs) facilities of major local government areas of Kano state such as Gwale in the metropolis, threatens access to CBS services in the state. Ahmad Adamu, the officer in…
Read More »In Nigeria, poor access to WASH services threatens fight against COVID-19
Over 150 million Nigerians do not have access to clean water and handwashing facilities, a major obstacle in the country’s effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19 Aware of its shattering consequences on economies and livelihoods, during the initial outbreak of coronavirus in China, Africans hoped the continent could…
Read More »How lack of protective equipment for health workers hinders Kano’s fight against COVID-19
Lack of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for healthcare workers in Kano remains a major bottleneck in the campaign against COVID-19 in the state In the last few weeks, social and traditional media in Nigeria had been awash with reports of mysterious deaths within Kano metropolis. The strange deaths…
Read More »ANALYSIS | X- Raying Kano’s response to COVID-19
Considering the sheer size of its population, many fear Nigeria’s inability to break COVID-19’s chain of community transmission in Kano may pose a grave danger to the country’s war against the scourge Long after COVID-19 emerged in Nigeria on February 27th, the absence of a case of the…
Read More »NFNV Nigeria calls for sustainable economic plans against COVID-19 in Africa
In light of the COVID—19 pandemic, the Nigeria chapter of New Faces New Voices (NFNV)— a Pan-African advocacy group focused on expanding the role and influence of African women in the financial sector — has called on African leaders to develop and implement sustainable economic strategies towards mitigating the negative…
Read More »ADVERTORIAL | How Swift Recharge is Making Bills Payments Faster and Easier Amidst Covid-19 Pandemic
Traditionally the process of paying bills in Nigeria is very cumbersome, boring and filled with numerous challenges. If you are paying for power (electricity) for example, you have to go to a physical payment centre and have to endure the long queue after which you are told that there…
Read More »Kano marks 2020 International Women’s Day with weeklong events
The Kano State Government in collaboration with the High-Level Women Advocates (HILWA), with the support of United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), this week, hosted series of weeklong activities in commemoration of the 2020 International Women’s Day (IWD2020) under the theme: ‘an equal world is an enabled world.’ The International Women’s…
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OP-ED | The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) at a Crossroads, By Adekeye Adebajo
The hard-won achievements of the 50-year-old Economic Community of West African States are at …
