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The honorable commissioner of health in Kano state, Dr Kabiru Ibrahim Getso, has urged actors in the Kannywood film industry to promote health issues including polio eradication and access to routine immunization in their movies so as to positively change public perception on polio vaccine towards the complete eradication of…

The Kano state ministry of health Tuesday held a one day sensitization workshop for media executives  on the role of the media in effective social mobilization for healthcare services, particularly polio and routine immunization. The sensitization workshop, aimed at raising awareness of key stakeholders on routine immunization (RI), polio eradication…

Abba Sarki is the chairman of the Kanawa Educational Foundation for the Disabled; a nonprofit planning to conduct a census of all disabled people in Kano state   What will you say inspired the founding of the Kanawa Education Foundation for the Disabled? The NGO was founded to support the…

The pursuit of making modern biotechnology acceptable to farmers will never be actualized without the creation of a mechanism for effective sharing of scientific information and facts about agricultural biotechnology using various media platforms The role of science, technology and innovation (STI) in achieving sustainable development cannot be overemphasized; in…

Every minute, six people slip into extreme poverty in Nigeria, thus, Nigeria is the new poverty capital of the world. Various reports have continued to highlight the pitiable condition of massive poverty, underdevelopment and gross educational backwardness in Nigeria. According to a recent of such reports by the Washington-based Brookings…

With increasing uncertainties to do with accidents, kidnapping and robberies bedeviling travel along the busy and strategic Abuja-Kaduna highway, the 186km Abuja-Kaduna standard gauge railway built by the China Civil Engineering and Construction Company (CCECC) presents a viable alternative for safe and secure travel for travellers Africa-China relations continue to…

The leadership of the Tomato Growers Association of Nigeria (TOGAN) has decried the continues illegal importation of tomato concentrate into Nigeria, which they said was against the Nigerian government’s new tomato policy adding that non-implementation of the policy was negatively affecting local tomato farmers. The cry was made by TOGAN’s…

The Kano State Advocacy Core Group on Child Birth Spacing (ACG- CBS), a group focused on promoting the health of women and children in the state, especially child birth spacing Wednesday advocated for the creation of an enabling environment for individuals interested in child birth spacing to have access to…

Dr Rose Gidado is the Nigeria country coordinator of the Open Forum for Agricultural Biotechnology in Africa (OFAB), a platform that brings together stakeholders in biotechnology and enables interactions between scientists, journalists, the civil society, industrialists and policymakers   Tell us about the Open Forum for Agricultural Biotechnology in Africa…

Civil society and media actors under the umbrella of the Accountability Mechanism for Maternal and Child Health in Kano state (AMMKas) Monday restated their commitment to more advocacies for domestic mobilization of resources for financing Tuberculosis in Kano state. Kano is among the six states with the highest TB burden…