Author: Obayomi Abiola Benjamin

By Prudence Arobani The World Health Organisation (WHO) is working closely with the Government of Sierra Leone to prevent the spread of malaria and cholera in the wake of last week’s mudslides and flooding in Freetown. Mr. Alexander Chimbaru, Officer in Charge of WHO in Sierra Leone, said the UN health agency was doing everything possible to prevent the spread of infectious diseases in the country’s capital. “The mudslides have caused extreme suffering and loss of life, and we must do all we can to protect the population from additional health risks. “With damage to water and sanitation facilities, residents…

Written by Eromo Egbejule for Forbes Africa The small Nigerian town of Nnewi has more naira billionaires per capita than anywhere else in the country. Shortly before Nigeria’s independence in 1960, Louis Odumegwu Ojukwu, reportedly Nigeria’s first black billionaire, and founding president of the Nigerian Stock Exchange, was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. The royal honor came after he helped the British during World War II with his fleet of trucks. He was so wealthy that during the Queen’s visit in 1956, she was chauffeured around in his Rolls-Royce – apparently the only one in the country at the time –…

Read Also: FCT Minister Seeks Partneship To Address Housing Deficit The Federal Capital Territory Minister in the person of Malam Muhammad Bello has commissioned 300 affordable housing units and also laid the foundation for the development of another 300 in Kaba District of Abuja. The Minister said the FCT Administration embarked on the project to give teeth to President Muhammadu Buhari’s efforts in tackling housing deficits in the country and ensuring good shelter for all. He added, saying, “We started with reforming the institutional framework for housing development in the Territory with a view to making it possible for private…

By Gloria Essien, Abuja The World Breastfeeding Week has ended in Nigeria with a call for the government to extend maternity leave to six months.The call is said to be necessary as it would help nursing mothers complete the mandatory six months exclusive breastfeeding requirement. The Nutrition Consultant, Mrs. Ada Ezeogu, said that for the Nigerian government to actualize its breastfeeding targets, it must either provide creches in work places or extend maternity leave.“The other thing is returning to work early so when they got back to work and there is no crèche, there is no room where they can have their…

The Civil Society Scaling Up Nutrition in Nigeria (CS-SUNN) has urged the National Assembly to enact laws that would promote breastfeeding to boost nutrition indices. Miss Lilian Ajah-mong, spokesperson of the organisation, stated this in on Sunday in Abuja in a statement made available to newsmen to commemorate the 2017 World Breastfeeding Week. The CS-SUNN, is a coalition of the Partnership for Advocacy in Child and Family Health (PACFaH ). Ajah-mong said that the enactment of the laws would protect mothers while practicing exclusive breastfeeding. She noted that such legislation would clamp down on employers of labour who do not…

It would be difficult to talk about experienced Yoruba movie producer and actors in Nigeria without mentioning Baba Adebayo Faleti.  Apart from this obvious fact,  baba was a renowned journalist in his prime having held top management positions at the Broadcasting Corporation of Oyo State (BCOS) in the role of a General Manager and also as the Film Editor and Librarian at the National Television Authority (NTA), Ibadan, Oyo State. Although a graduate of English Language from the University of Ibadan, Oyo State, baba’s mastery of the English, French and Yoruba languages was also something worthy to talk about. Baba…

I posed this ‘quote-like’ question to a young man recently who was on the verge of giving up. I asked him, do you remember that guy that gave up? At first, he was shocked, wondering what man was that. After sometimes, he responded by saying ‘No’. So, I told him me neither. No one would ever remember that man or woman that gave up on their dreams and aspirations. The world only celebrates people who didn’t quit. Even, heaven will not rejoice over that soul that gives up. Circumstance and situations would push to the point of wanting you to throw in…

Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) and workers cooperative societies were top of considerations as experts gathered in Abuja recently to discuss the way forward for affordable housing delivery in Nigeria. Though the REITs market is still evolving in this country, it is considered a good opportunity for financial intermediation in the housing sector and, according to the experts who gathered for the 11th edition of the annual Abuja Housing Show (AHS), cooperatives have the capacity to amass and coordinate household savings towards homeownership. But to achieve the 2030 target of affordable housing for all, Kecia Rust of the Centre for…

There is this feeling that immediately surfaces when you are expecting God to come through for you in a particular situation and He didn’t show up. Sometimes, it could be that you are expecting God to heal you from a particular ailment, but He didn’t until you probably ended up in the hospital. Another could be that you needed a job so desperately, and then this interview came up; and you prepared well for it, put your entire trust in God to perfect the rest; but somewhere along the line, He didn’t show up and then, you lost the job.…

By NAN For the first time, a vaccine a vaccine has tested positive to abilities to act as protection against gonorrhoea, a sexually transmitted infection. Sscientists in New Zealand say study of 15,000 young people, published in the Lancet, showed infections were cut by about a third. This is coming after the World Health Organisation in a recent publication said that the infection was fast becoming a challenge as antibiotics seemed to have minimal effect in treating the infection. WHO expressed worry as many developing countries have reported that their last resorts no longer worked against the bacteria. “These cases may just…