Health

IT begins with itching. Swelling of the eyes follows. The swollen eyelids tighten up and the children are unable to open their eyes. More than 20 children are having an eye infection in Ruga, a remote settlement around the Abuja City Gate,…
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Today is June 26, the day declared by the United Nations as the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking. It is a day set aside call attention to the scourge of drug and substance abuse across the world and strengthen…
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She looked cheerful but shy and carried her lean frame gingerly as if afraid she might fall down any minute. Her cheeks were slightly sunken, making her cheekbones prominent. She clutched a fairly weathered handbag. Her open neck Ankara…
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In the aftermath of the January 2018 outbreak of Lassa fever in Nigeria, PATRICK EGWU travelled to Ebonyi State, one of the states with high incidence of the disease, and reports how the N250 million virology centre in the state –…
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 LONDON seems to be a place of choice for prominent Nigerians to die. In the past three years, death of five foremost Nigerians took place in London hospitals where they were receiving treatment before their passing. Last week…
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An increasing number of Nigerians are embracing the controversial ketogenic diet. This diet has shown dramatic weight loss but its effect on dieters is highly open to question. The keto diet is based on unproven scientific claims,…
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Asiya Abubakar’s dream took her beyond her little village in Dawakin Kudu , in one of the 44 local government areas that make up Kano State. She loved western education and always wanted to speak the English language and one day…
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Despite the multibillion-naira interventions of the Federal Government to curb the rising rate of maternal and Infant mortality in the country, women and children still die daily in the rural areas of the country due to inaccessible and…
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In a lot of campaigns against the handing out of girls to full-grown men in marriage, there is huge talk about how the education of the child brides is impeded, or the health hazards of of an unready female body having to stomach…
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Safe drinking water is a luxury in Nigeria and only a negligible percentage of the population has access to this luxury. Budgeting for clean and safe drinking water provision has been abysmal over the years. As a result, 57 million…
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