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Birth registration is low in Imo, Rivers, and govt. officials are responsible

  Only 2.8 million under-five children out of a population of 32 million in Nigeria have birth certificates. According to...
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Good health is still a privilege, not a right in Nigeria. Here is why

DIRECTOR  General of the World Health Organisation, Tedros  Adhanom Ghebreyesus, in his speech during an event in Geneva to...
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Five in every 1000 women die during birth in Nigeria, says NPC boss

FIVE hundred and seventy-six women, out of every 100,000 live births, die in Nigeria while giving birth, according to...
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Senate approves N234 billion for INEC, appointment of 23 NPC commissioners

SENATE has approved N234 billion for the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) ahead of the 2019 general election on...
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FACT CHECK: Are there 13.2 million out-of-school children in Nigeria as claimed by UBEC?

LAST week, the Executive Secretary, Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), Ahmed Boboyi, stated that the population of out-of-school children in Nigeria...
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Senate Wants Census In 2018

The Nigerian Senate has resolved to call on the President Muhammadu buhari to issue a proclamation for the holding of a Population and Housing Census in 2018 since 2016 is no longer feasible.
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