Franka Osakwe

12,000 cases, 330 deaths recorded so far Nigeria marked one hundred days of COVID-19 on Sunday June 7,  just as it became the third African country to record over 10,000 cases of the virus. Since February 27, 2020 when an…

In far away Yammawah Kafawa, a fulani community in Dambata Local Government Area (LGA), of Kano State, at Northern Nigeria, there is no electricity for the children to watch Disney World or African Magic on television. There is no…

47 million practise open defecation No fewer than 80 million Nigerians are in dire need of improved toilet, new facts from UNICEF have revealed. Of these, 47 million people reportedly defecate openly, 33 million use…

Amid statistics showing that one out of four Nigerians has the sicke cell traits, a professor of obstetrics and gynaecology,  Abosede  Afolabi, has called on the government to formulate  a policy on universal new-born…