5,000 people living with AIDS in Jigawa
The Executive Secretary, Jigawa State Action Committee on Control of AIDS (JISACA), Dr. Bashir Ahmed, has disclosed that there are about 5,000 people living with the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) in the state with about 26, 000 yet to be registered.
Ending child deaths from preventable diseases
Around the world more than 2.5 billion people do not have access to a toilet, and more than 1 billion people defecate in the open, impacting human health and leaving women and girls vulnerable to the risk of gender based violence. Poor sewage filters contribute to the spread of diseases such as typhoid, cholera and diarrhoea.
Red Cross, FRSC, NSCDC remember victims at World Accident Day
ONITSHA— AUTHORITIES of the Nigerian Red Cross Society, NRCS, Anambra State chapter, weekend, joined their counterparts all over the world and in 189 United Nation’s member countries to mark this year’s World Accident Day with a minute silence in sympathy of all accident victims in the state, particularly the Sunday, May 31, 2015 Onitsha Petrol Tanker Fire Disaster that roasted 69 persons.
Disability cannot deter me from actualising my dreams —Salami
FOR Afeez Salami, disability cannot be an impediment to the actualisation of his God-given talents. The 21- year-old, who is physically challenged, is convinced that fulfilling his aspirations in life is the only instrument for his dry bone to live again.
‘Entrepreneurs in 54 African countries to access $100m’
THE Tony Elumelu Foundation says it has earmarked $100 million (about N20 billion) facility for entrepreneurs in 54 African countries under its entrepreneurship programme (TEEP) for 2016.
PPA re-elects Ameh national chair, new national officers
Progressive Peoples Alliance, PPA, has re-elected its national chairman, Chief Peter Ameh, alongside other 11 national officers in a peaceful National Convention of the party held in Lokoja, the Kogi State capital.
