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By Ekpali Saint IBADAN, OYO – At about 9 am on Saturday, June 4, 2022, about 200 people, including adults and secondary school students, gathered in
By Angela Umoru OTA, OGUN: Opeoluwa Lawal, 41, lost a friend to breast cancer in early January this year, while another friend was in a critical
Image Credit: Prime Progress By Michael Babatunde ABEOKUTA, OGUN: Awodi Anthony prides himself as the first to ever host a silent disco in Nigeria. Not that
By Abdulganiyu Abdulrahman AROYEHUN, KWARA: Mulikat Tijani’s community heavily depended on coloured, dirty, polluted water from a stream for drinking. “Onigbin river was the only source
By Victor Akuma MINNA, NIGER STATE – Khadijah still cannot tell how she contracted the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which causes AIDS. She was diagnosed with it
By Abdullahi Tijjani OSHODI, LAGOS: Anisere Sodiq knew about online doctors attending to patients virtually. But he did not believe in its effectiveness until he had
By Violet Ikong BERTOUA, CAMEROON: Damase Cyrille is a person living with albinism in Bertoua, the capital of Cameroon’s Eastern Region. He has had to deal
by adebowaleadedigba A major component of strengthening health systems to achieve UHC is through public–private partnerships (PPPs). Ensuring equal access to quality health services without
By Victor Christopher In 2010, a Kano-based couple, Gambo and Karimatuwere, was blessed with their first child, but the wife did not survive the complications
By Violet Ikong PORT HARCOURT: Ben Arikpo and his wife, Felicia, became worried in 2010 when they realised their eight-year-old son found it difficult to spell,
By Kehinde Ogunyale Femi Idowu spent most of his youth into his 50s as a backup singer for Sunny Ade, a famous Nigerian singer who
By: Violet Ikong AGBARA, CROSS RIVER: It is 6 pm in Ba Itakorghor, a small clan in Agbara community in Abi Local Government Area of Southern
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