When a final-year student found himself in trouble with his university’s authorities, he never expected the case would eventually draw in SARS and garner national attention.
For six hours, Arinze Chijioke travelled on water from Sapele to Opuama, a community in Delta State, to report the impact of an oil spillage that left many families in tears.
No child should die from any vaccine-preventable disease, especially when the cost is much lower than the cost of treating a sick child or fighting an outbreak. ADETOLA BADEMOSI, in this first strand of a two-part report, writes on how children miss out on important vaccines and the irregularities between public and private hospitals routine immunisation schedules.
