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Mobile insurance: NHIS seeks access into 120m phone lines

August 5, 2015 Headline 854

The National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) has requested for the data of about 120 million mobile lines in the country to enable it accelerate the effectiveness of mobile health insurance in the country. The Acting Executive…

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Foundation commits $851m to health, nutrition in 6 years

July 24, 2015 Headline 645

By Oluwashina Iyanda, who just returned from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has announced two commitments totalling 851 million dollars to the development efforts on nutrition and health of women and…

Head Transplant Patient: ‘We’re Making Science’

June 14, 2015 Headline 1020

Russian Valery Spiridonov suffers from a muscle wasting disease and is set to undergo the world’s first head transplant. A man set to have the world’s first head transplant has told Sky News the operation…

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HCFI urges Buhari to fulfil promises`

May 31, 2015 Headline 914

By Miftaudeen Raji, Lagos The Human Concern Foundation International (HCFI), a non-governmental organisation on Sunday advised President Muhammadu Buhari to evolve a service-oriented administration that would touch the life of the masses positively. Dr Luqman AbdurRaheem, the…

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The surgeons of Mogadishu: The women saving Somali’s pregnant women

May 27, 2015 Africa 655

Michael Onyiego, Adriane Ohanesian Twenty-eight-year-old Dr Mariam Osman Salad has been a surgical resident at Mogadishu’s Banadir Hospital for the past two years [Adriane Ohanesian] Half way down the dimly lit main hallway of Mogadishu’s Banadir…

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Preparing Ukwa Pottage (African Breadfruit)

May 17, 2015 Africa 4731

What have you been eating lately? Beans? Plantain? Yam? Rice? Same same staples? Have you tried Ukwa? …Lately, I have been all about some of Nigerian whole foods; beans, yam, sweet potatoes, lots of vegetables;…

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Fake Honey on the Market: How to Spot the Difference

May 16, 2015 Feature Article 839

According to Food Safety News, around 76 per cent of all honey that you can buy in grocery stores is fake. By fake we mean ultra-filtrated, which means that it underwent a filtration process in order…

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28 children died of lead poisoning in Niger

May 14, 2015 Headline 777

At least, 28 children have been confirmed dead from lead poisoning in Niger State. “As at May 12, sixty-five cases and 28 deaths had occurred, giving a case fatality rate of 43 per cent. “All…

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Hotelier bites off employee’s ear over salary

May 5, 2015 Crime/Judiciary/Security 611

A Magistrates’ court in Lagos has ordered the arrest of a hotel director, Mrs Mary Joan Adeiekwe, 38 for allegedly biting off the ear lobe of her manager, Chinwendu Nkemakolam. She allegedly assaulted Nkemakolam for demanding her monthly salary…

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AfDB earmarks $300 million to support Post-Ebola Recovery Programmes

April 20, 2015 Africa 736

ABIDJAN, Côte d’Ivoire – African Development Bank, President Donald Kaberuka, has announced $300 million to support the national Post-Ebola Recovery program of Ebola-affected countries during the World Bank-IMF Spring Meetings in Washington. AfDB’s funding will…

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