The President, Paediatric Association of Nigeria, PAN, Dr Dorothy Esangbedo, has again reiterated that pneumococcal disease remains a significant burden in Africa, accounting for 20 per cent of under five deaths in Nigeria.

NIGERIA is the worst place to be a mother among the less developed countries of the world. Data from the Save the Children’s 13th State of the World’s Mothers Report which compares 165 countries around the world in key areas such as mother’s health, education and economic status, as well as critical child indicators such as health and nutrition, places Nigeria as 80th out of 80 countries in the Less Developed countries category.

The former Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Mr. Odein Ajumogobia, has said the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB), when eventually passed into a law, will serve as the catalyst that the country’s oil and gas industry needs to revolutionise the sector.

Sociologists concede that life for young people in the contemporary society is both challenging and uncertain. They insist that the individual life courses of today’s young are less predictable and more individually framed than ever before.

The Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Raji Fashola has described the Climate Change Club in Lagos Schools as the home-grown solution to the global scourge of climate change.