Monthly Archives: January 2015

23
Jan

AFRICAN CONJOINED TWINS SEPARATED BY INDIAN DOCTORS

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It is a new lease of life for conjoined twins from Tanzania who had shared a common heart lining, diaphragm and a liver. Doctors, including two teams of plastic surgeons at leading city-based Apollo Children’s Hospital, who undertook a marathon, 11-hour operation managed to separate the twins. The twins’ condition was described as thoraco omphalopagus …
22
Jan

NIGERIA MAY ATTAIN POLIO-FREE STATUS IN 2017 –UNICEF

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Nigeria will wait till 2017 before it is certified polio-free by the World Health Organisation, WHO, it was revealed yesterday. The country must, however, sustain its interruption of the wild type of the virus, Type One, it recorded on July 24, 2014, in order to attain the status. Nigeria is currently one of the three remaining endemic countries with …
22
Jan

LAUGHING GAS DURING CHILD BIRTH IS MAKING A COMEBACK

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Every woman knows, whether she’s a mother or not, that childbirth is probably the most painful experience we’ll ever have. One could say that being in labor is no laughing matter — until now: A Minnesota birthing center is now offering laughing gas to relieve pain during childbirth. It’s a method that’s been commonly used by women in other …
21
Jan

BBOG GROUP, CHIBOK COMMUNITY MEET WITH UN OVER CHIBOK GIRLS AND INSECURITY

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With the increasing insurgency in the North-east by the Boko Haram sect and the inability of the federal government to rescue the Chibok girls, the #BringBackOurGirls group and some members of the Chibok community in Abuja, paid a courtesy call on the United Nations representative for Africa to seek assistance on the way forward. While speaking to the …
21
Jan

SHAKIRA SHOWS OFF BABY BUMP

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Colombian pop star, Shakira Ripoll, made newspaper headlines on Monday, when she released a series of photos, showing her bulging belly. But unlike stars who pose nude when pregnant, the singer’s display of her sizeable baby bump, was part of UNICEF’s World Baby Shower campaign, in which people can buy ‘inspired gifts,’ which consist of life-saving …
21
Jan

WOMAN BATTERED 15-YEAR-OLD GIRL FOR ALLEGEDLY STEALING AND MASTURBATING

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A 15-year-old girl, Oluebube Amadi, has refused to report her guardian, Mrs. Ebere Ugochukwu, to the police for allegedly assaulting her. Amadi, a primary six pupil, lives with the woman on Muhammed Akinje Street, Ejigbo, Lagos State. It was learnt that a Good Samaritan who met her while she was writhing in pain on the street advised the victim to report …
21
Jan

I HATE TO SEE CHILDREN SUFFERING — Ozzy Bosco

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By Ngozi Emedolibe He is a child with the ideas of an adult. That is how best to describe this kid music star, who started out two years ago on the stage of the seventh edition of Kids Got Talent, a reality TV show. Before he could get a head-start in school, it was already clear to his mother, Nonye Mojekwu-Chukwujama, that her son belonged to music. …