Imagine waking up one day and found out that you can no longer identify colours? Imagine being hungry and alone with food stock in your kitchen you cannot help yourself but continue to yawn. This is the situation currently experienced by 52 years old Mr Ejiro. A father of three children can no longer use his sight no thanks to Glaucoma, the second most common cause of blindness.

The Federal Government yesterday denounced media reports that bird flu attacked Obasanjo’s farm in Otta, Ogun State. In a press statement made available to Vanguard, the Federal Ministry of Agriculture described the publication in a national daily, (not Vanguard) as false noting that the write-up, captioned “Bird flu hits Obasanjo’s Otta farm,” has since been found to be a false alarm, misleading assertion and an attempt to exaggerate the bird flu outbreaks within the nation to set off undue panic.

If Chiamaka Agwu had a choice about whether or not to be circumcised 40 years ago, certainly, she would have chosen not to be circumcised

Expectant mothers at Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, Camps at Damaru and St Joseph’s Catholic Mission in Adamawa State have obtained safe motherhood kits (popularly known as Mama Kits) — a crucial intervention tool which contains essential items used by midwives to assist in the safe delivery of babies.

A new survey carried out in Lagos has shown that over 67 percent of women in the state are not accessing family planning services due to health – related concerns.