We need breastmilk banks, says Ogundimu
In a bid to reduce the infant mortality rate in the country and give hope to babies whose mothers were not opportuned to breastfeed, Project Coordinator of ColostrumInternational, Dr. Bunmi Ogundimu has advocated for establishment of breast milk banks across the country. The initiative which she described as a way of identifying with nursing mothers who are passing through some challenges that have denied them opportunity to breastfeed their baby.
Kokori blasts S’South delegates to confab, tasks Delta guber aspirants
KOKORI— A former House of Representatives member, Mr. Solomon Edoja, has faulted the South-South delegates at the national conference on their position on resource control.
I want to see my son, his wife alive
Mother of abducted Islamic cleric, Ustadh Abdul-Ganiyy Jumoh, Alhaja Animatu Ibrahim-Jumoh, has cried out to the Federal Government and Inspector-General of Police, Suleiman Abba, to help find her son and his wife, Muinat who were abducted at gun point at their residence. The abduction took place on Saturday July 5, 2014 at number 27, Fagbemi Street, Ijoko, off Interbo bus stop, Ogun State and their whereabouts remains unknown.
Yellow card for Labour in Ondo
The once tight grip of Labour Party on the politics of Ondo State recently eased when some foot soldiers of the party changed camp to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP
MDG app selected for UN-World summit award
Efforts to retool software in Nigeria to fit the global market have started yielding expected results as Malaria Destroyer Game (MDG) , a highly Innovative Technology App developed by Mobile Software Solutions to fight the Malaria Pandemic in Africa and the rest of the world has been selected as one of the 454 App games to compete at the UN-based World Summit Award Mobile scheduled for Abu Dhabi, UAE February, 2015.0
Ebola virus, the absurd and urban legends
THE outbreak of Ebola virus in parts of West Africa, including Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, has rightly sent panic around the world. From Liberia it has found its way to Nigeria and is slowly spreading among health workers and others who had had direct and indirect contact with infected persons. The fear now is that it might continue its slow but steady spread if nothing or enough is done to stem it. Such a devastating killer should not be allowed to continue unchecked, especially since the mode of transmission could be as insidious as shaking hands with an infected person.
