What you put on your plate might affect what you see in the mirror. But a few tweaks to your dining habits can go a long way to keeping your skin youthful and your body healthy. The key approach is to eat better.

When 9 –month-old, GboyegaAdesina, woke up in the middle of the night with high fever and a feeling of nausea, his mother just assumed it was “normal” fever, gave him paracetamol syrup and went back to bed. Gboyega lives with his parents in one of the slums in Kosofe, a water-logged area of Lagos associated with consistent flooding. Life in the one – room apartment is best imagined.

Prostate Cancer is cancer that occurs in the prostate gland. Cancer begins when cells in a part of the body start to grow out of control. Cells are the building blocks of the body. It is now the number one cancer killer of Nigerian men and has a mortality rate of over 80 percent.

REMEMBER Eucalyptus oil? It is that pure essential oil with a heavenly fragrance that not only has practical and industrial uses, but possesses superb healing properties for a wide range of ailments. Extracted from fresh or partially dried leaves and young twigs, eucalyptus undergo steam distillation. The healing power comes from the oil, which is made from the tree’s oval-shaped leaves.

LONG before Nigeria attained one year polio-free status, Bauchi State was ahead of the national level in the polio campaign having gone 25 months without a case of the Wild Polio Virus, WPV, infection and 35 months without any case of the Circulating Vaccine Derived Polio Virus, CVDPV..