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WHO WILL RID THE STREETS OF CHILD HAWKERS?

By Gboyega Adeoye Moji, 15, is the eldest of the six children of Mr. and Mrs. Adeyanju who reside in Ipaja, a Lagos suburb. Both parents lost their jobs to the hurried liquidation of Nigeria’s flag carrier, Nigeria Airways, which finally kissed the dust at the twilight of President Olusegun Obasanjo’s administration. It was a fierce battle between …

AFRICAN CONJOINED TWINS SEPARATED BY INDIAN DOCTORS

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 …

NIGERIA MAY ATTAIN POLIO-FREE STATUS IN 2017 –UNICEF

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 …

LAUGHING GAS DURING CHILD BIRTH IS MAKING A COMEBACK

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 …

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

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 …

SHAKIRA SHOWS OFF BABY BUMP

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 …