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World Mental Health Day: Nigeria’s failure to repeal 60-year-old Lunacy Act hurts patients

AS  the World marks Mental Health Day, attention is again drawn to the failure of Nigerian government to enact...

Life expectancy in Africa up by three years… WHO Report

A recent report by the World Health Organisation (WHO) shows that life expectancy in Africa increased from 50.9 years...
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How Drug Addiction Threatens A Generation Of Northern Women (Part 1)

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 blouse revealed sharp shoulder blades, a sign that she was not feeding well.

REVEALED: Why some people are attractive to mosquitoes and others are not

  Ever wondered why two people could be in the same room and one complains of mosquito bites but the...
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Deadly viral disease similar to Ebola breaks out in Uganda

An outbreak of a ‘lethal virus’ - Marburg - clinically similar to Ebola with no known cure has broken out in Uganda,...

A killer plague is ravaging Madagascar — and it could spread to nine African countries

  The plague in Madagascar — "the deadliest and most rapid form of plague" — suspected by the World Health Organisation (WHO)...
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