The Nigerian Veterinary Medical Association (NVMA) has called for the creation of Ministry of Animal Health and Production, as part of measures of stimulating livestock production and guaranteeing the success of the nation’s food security.

Unlike babies in developed countries, many babies in Africa suffer undernourishment, malnutrition, insufficiencies, inadequate attention and insecurity right from birth. Most babies’ condition in Africa cries for a new kind of attention that is synergistic, connective, communicative and all-embracing.

If time could be turned back, no one would appreciate it better than 34- year- old Sulaimon Akorede Odunuga. For him, such a feat would be a way of undoing the circumstances that led to the loss of his sight couple of years back.

Since I wrote “Poor healthcare system: Nigeria’s moral indifference” in 2005 detailing staggering inadequacies in healthcare system in Nigeria, little or no improvement has been witnessed in the healthcare sector. People in Nigeria continue to experience avoidable deaths; they continue to die of treatable illness. It is rather absurd!

The incessant reportage of sexual violations against minors is cause for crying ‘It’s a Wolf’. However, the sexual molestation of minors is not a new phenomenon and has existed for generations in various forms. There has been a conspiracy against the females form the day of birth, first from the Garden of Eden and has rolled down over ages.
One imminent query is why do they sexually molest or violate children or any person at all? Big question, you may ask? Human nature is the first thing that creeps to mind but the oddity is the age bracket and positions of perpetrators and victims.

A MEMBER of the Delta State Water Ways Security Committee, Mr. Omolubi Newuwumi, has called on the state Police Commissioner to come to their aid, as armed robbers and cultists have taken control of the old port town.

Tubal disease, also one of the many causes of female infertility, is a disorder in which the fallopian tubes are blocked or damaged. The fallopian tube is an active, muscular organ that retrieves the egg from the ovary and coaxes it toward the oncoming sperm.

On July 1, 2010, MNet premiered Studio 53 Extra, a programme focused on the glitzy and glamourous side of Africa. If the earlier incarnation of the show invoked Indiana Jones, this one was undoubtedly all Naomi Campbell. Movie premieres, the runway and album launches are some of the events one tends to see on this show.

Bilkisu Abubakar is one Northern Nigeria female writer, who has employed the tool of creative writing in engaging the discourse of religion, gender and polygamy in the predominantly Islamic North. In this conversation with United States of Americas based literary scholar and writer, Unoma Azuah, how she has successfully done this with her two novels :To Live Again and The Woman in Me.

Centre for Human Development (CHD), organizers of a writing competition to mark Ford Foundation’s 50 years existence in Nigeria with the theme: Nigerian Women: Yesterday, today and tomorrow, had their reasons when they invited University of Lagos lecturer and award-winning author, Akachi Adimora Ezeigbo, as the Chairperson for the award ceremony.