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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

  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…

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…

The Support to the National Malaria Programme (SunMaP2), a UK Department for International Development (UK DFID) funded programme focused on malaria prevention, treatment, and other interventions at the community and service delivery levels, in collaboration with Kano State Ministry of Health, Tuesday held a town-hall in Warawa Local Government Area…