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World Toilet Day: Accelerating Commitments Towards the Provision of Hygiene Facilities

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Of all days to remember and commemorate, why should anyone care about toilets?   For thousands of years, man has devised crude ways to go about his business in very unlikely places. In fact, many Nigerians have mastered the art and act of taking strategic positions when evacuating their bowels. Some of the usual locations …

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World Food Day: Promoting the Consumption, Production of Nutrient-Enriched Staples

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Encouraging farmers, and workers to eat, produce nutrient-enriched staple foods   Malnutrition is an agelong health, social and economic problem, not only in Nigeria, but in Sub-Saharan Africa and the world at large. While it has different manifestations, including wasting, stunting and underweight in children, and underweight and obesity in adults, it is further worsened …

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Battling Malaria’s Toll: School-Based SBC’s Transformative Approach

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Improving The Health and Learning Potential of Children Through School-Based Social and Behaviour Change (SBC) Programs Malaria, an enduring menace in Sub-Saharan Africa, including Nigeria, poses a grave public health challenge. Within this context, children are at increased risk and can quickly develop severe malaria, if undetected and untreated. In 2019 alone, 274,000 young children …

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World Breastfeeding Week: Role of Faith Leaders in Nigeria

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  World Breastfeeding Week (2023) concludes today, marking the end of a week dedicated to promoting and supporting breastfeeding. For Zainab Orume, a working parent, the journey of balancing her career and nurturing her child has been both challenging and rewarding.   The busy Youth Leader with the Federation of Muslim Women’s Association of Nigeria (FOMWAN) …

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Why I Am Visiting Nigeria, Niger – Bill Gates

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Bill Gates, Co-Chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, will be in Niger and Nigeria this week, following a visit to China, to discuss global health and development with national and local leaders, foundation partners, grantees, scientists, and young innovators. The visit is part of the Gates Foundation’s commitment to work closely with communities …

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