Children enjoying views from Laptop When Mr. Omolaja Adebukola and his wife decided to buy Bimbo, their 14-year-old-daughter an Internet-enabled mobile smartphone, it was to enable her to communicate seamlessly with other members of the family, whenever the need arose. According to Bimbo’s mother, the mobile phone was also to enable them (parents) to keep […]
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As the world marks World Breastfeeding Week, the Women Empowerment and Media Advocacy Initiative (WEMAI), has called on the federal and state governments and employers to put measures in place that ensure healthy nutrition for lactating women for healthy breast milk production. In a statement issued by its Program Manager, Bukola Afeni, in commemoration of […]
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“African children have the worst life chances in the world,” according to a former Organisation of African Unity Secretary-General Salim Ahmed Salim, who spoke at a Pan-African Forum for Children in May 2001. “And the gap between the survival rates, the education, and the development of Africa’s children and the children of other continents is […]
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By Godfrey George It is not unusual to see plus-sized children waddle alongside their parents in a mart or at a cinema. Medical experts say childhood obesity is now one of the most serious challenges of public health in the 21st century, particularly in urban areas. The World Health Organisation defines the condition as abnormal […]
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The Senate on Wednesday passed the bill seeking to mandate the teaching of sexual and gender-based violence in secondary schools across the country. While passing the bill, it said compulsory inclusion of the SGBV in the school curriculum will expose secondary students to the dangers involved in committing such acts. The bill was sponsored by […]
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A child receiving injectible polio vaccine immunisation at Dala Primary Health Care (PHC) centre in Kano The Kano State Assembly passed the long-awaited Free Maternal and Child Healthcare (FMNCH) Bill into law on May 3, 2023. This made Kano the first state in Nigeria to enact the law. It is therefore not surprising that civil […]
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says Ondo invests in Education, Health, Infrastructure Ondo State Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu has said his administration is committed to programs and policies that will secure the lives and future of children in the State. A statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Richard Olatunde, said that in his 2023 Children’s Day message, the governor said deliberate […]
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Ronke Oshodi Oke, a movie star, shared on her Instagram page that her daughter was rushed to the hospital in the middle of the night after drinking hypo. She urged parents to be cautious of their children and warned the school to prevent such incidents from occurring. Ronke suspected that her daughter’s roommate might have […]
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Almost half of the 67 million children who missed out on routine vaccination between 2019 and 2021 live on the African continent, and as of the end of 2021, India and Nigeria, which are described in the report as “countries with very large birth cohorts”, had the highest numbers of children who hadn’t received a […]
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Adeife and Akinola Twenty years after, two young and promising children were snatched away by the cold hands of death, the family said they might have died, but not forgotten. On April 20, 2003, Adeife, 14, and Akinola Sodipo-Akindeko, 10, were killed during an attack on the convoy of Senator Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello. During their short […]
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