Olayinka Omigbodun, director, Centre for Child and Adolescent Mental Health, University of Ibadan (UI), says poverty adversely affects the emotional development of children, to whom it poses a great threat. Omigbodun,
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The United States on Friday signed a $469 million dollars (about N147.5 billion) country operation plan (COP) to support HIV prevention, care and treatment programmes in Nigeria. The COP was signed by
The Food Agricultural Organisation (FAO) says it supported about 141,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the north-east with agricultural inputs. Nourou Macki-tall, acting country representative of FAO, said this on
The European Commission (EU) on Thursday announced a €143m support package for the “early recovery and reconstruction needs” in north-east due to its worsening humanitarian crisis. Neven Mimica, commissioner for
The International Development Research Centre (IDRC), a Canadian government agency , says it is contributing 2.6m Canadian dollars ($1.9m) to
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is set to adopt a “one health” approach to fight infectious diseases
Gordon Brown, former British prime minister, says there are about 11 million out-of-school children in north-east Nigeria due to the
I saw the official twitter handle of Nigeria that seeks to give information on us say “Discover Africa’s most populous
A meeting of health ministers from ECOWAS member countries has kicked off in Abuja. The meeting, which is held annually,
Global health leaders are on the verge of eradicating polio from the planet and will require $1.2 billion to finance
