By Foster Obi The death has be announced of Ezinne (Mrs.) Dorothy Ndukoso Osamgbi (Nee Eluemunor), a devout Catholic, a successful business woman and an accomplished civil servant, who retired from the then Bendel State Hospital Management Board, aged 85years. In a press statement signed by Mr. Isichei Osamgbi, Deputy Director and Head Public Relations, […]
The residents of Ilara-Mokin, a town in Nigeria’s western state of Ondo state, celebrate the harvest season in an unusual way – by beating themselves with sticks during the New Yam Festival. Last Monday, the revellers danced and sang with joy without showing any sign of pain despite the welts on their backs. The festival […]
With cryptocurrency fraud and IRS scams making headlines, I had thought Nigerian email schemes were a thing of the past, akin to the bygone days when a scammer might offer to sell you the Brooklyn Bridge. So I was surprised to recently come across an article about a 62-year-old Swedish divorcee named Maria Grette. She […]
Etinosa Yvonne Osayimwen’s goal is to get inside her subjects’ heads. The self-trained, 28-year-old documentary photographer does just that by using a double-exposure technique. She takes portraits of Nigerian survivors of violence and terrorism — then superimposes it with an image of something that reminds them of how their lives have changed. In one photo, […]
Nigeria is failing to enforce a much heralded ban on female genital mutilation, activists said on Friday, as they urged the country to sort out a “messy patchwork” of laws and beef up efforts to protect girls. A quarter of women in the West African country have undergone the agonising ritual, which can cause serious […]
In a bid to curb the transmission of preventable diseases, the Wellbeing Foundation Africa is to partner the World Health Organisation (WHO) to take hand washing campaigns across Nigeria and Africa. Mrs Toyin Saraki, Founder-President of the Foundation disclosed this when she led a team on a courtesy visit the Abuja office of the WHO […]
A naked statue of Donald Trump, complete with a distended belly and jowly sneer, is to go on display at a Haunted Museum after a paranormal investigator bought it at auction. Julien’s Auctions announced Wednesday it sold the artwork — believed to be the last of the controversial statues not vandalized or destroyed — for […]
The World Health Organisation (WHO), says an estimated seven million people worldwide die every year from outdoor and household air pollution. The organisation revealed on its Twitter handle @WHO on Thursday. It said that ambient air pollution alone caused 4.2 million deaths in 2016, while household air pollution from cooking with polluting fuels and technologies […]
Giving the antibiotic azithromycin twice a year to young children in sub-Saharan Africa reduced childhood deaths by 13.5%, a new study has shown. Large-scale distribution of the drug could save millions of lives in a region where one in nine children dies before age 5, according to the United States Agency for International Development. The […]
Nigerian media report that 162 babies and children have been rescued from three illegal orphanages – one of which is referred to as a “baby factory”. The precise nature of the so-called baby factory is not clear. The term is sometimes used to describe children’s homes where abandoned or orphaned babies are sold for profit. […]