By Prof Sylvester Odion Akhaine Introduction If I were to rephrase the title of this lecture from the assigned topic, I would say: “Rotary: from Philanthropy to Philanthropy”. Unless the a... Read more
37 years after a horrific cholera outbreak in the Opialu community in Okpokwu Local Government Area of Nigeria’s Benue State, it is under siege again from an unknown parasites(?). Opialu, a... Read more
The concern of the authors of this piece was management of Covid-19. Intervention is more concerned with malaria in the rural areas where there are no doctors. Although the local governments... Read more
The American University of Nigeria (AUN) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) are collaborating to offer a new Master of Science Degree in Communication for Social and Behav... Read more
An Inter-Press Service feature originally titled “Water Scarcity in Africa to Reach Dangerously High Levels By 2025 is reproduced here for the message it is sending – a red alert which... Read more
By The Woman Today* (SAM) is a killer that must be stopped and banished to the annals of history. This killer ignored by successive governments of Nigeria, SAM results from the absence or sh... Read more
It is emerging that Ebola virus might have capacity to hibernate and return for a second round of infection. According to the New York Times, Scientists seem to conclude that someone who was... Read more
The global picture is certainly frightening. Although Chinese president, Xi Jinping who visited Wuhan where the virus took roots has been reported as saying that Coronavirus has basically be... Read more
It must be unique to Nigeria for a disease that was the subject of front page headlines since January 29th, 2020, as ravaging a part of Benue State to still be a strange disease unknown to... Read more
In a rare convergence of temperament, a civil society organisation has openly commended a state government in Nigeria for doing the right thing at the right time. Although many state governm... Read more
