Gombe State Governor, Mr Muhammad Inuwa Yahaya, recently commissioned the first primary healthcare (PHC) centre, Doma PHC, at Jekadafari ward, located in Gombe Local Government Area (LGA) The big idea about Universal Healthcare Coverage (UHC) is that health services should…
Africa’s Advances in Maternal, Infant Mortality Face Setbacks: World Health Organisation (WHO) Report
In sub-Saharan Africa, it is estimated that 390 women will die in childbirth for every 100 000 live births by 2030, the Atlas 2022 reports A slowdown in the progress made during the past decade against maternal and infant mortality…
United Arab Emirates strongly condemns terrorist attack in Mogadishu
The UAE expresses its strong condemnation of these criminal acts and its permanent rejection of all forms of violence, extremism, and terrorism The UAE has strongly condemned the terrorist attack that targeted a hotel in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, which…
Saving women’s lives: the time is now to defeat Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and cervical cancer together
By Sergio Carmona & Princess Nono Simelela Women living with HIV are six times more likely to develop cervical cancer than those living without Women and girls in sub-Saharan Africa accounted for two out of every three new HIV infections…
African Development Bank’s Sustainable Energy Africa Fund for Africa approves $1 million reimbursable grant to develop bioenergy plants in Ghana and Sierra Leone
The reimbursable grant will strengthen the project’s bankability by supporting technical feasibility studies and regulatory structuring The Sustainable Energy Fund for Africa (SEFA) has approved a reimbursable grant of $1 million to NewAfrica Impact Ltd to prepare two bioenergy plants…
African leaders call for faster industrialization during African Union Summit
Bazoum called on African countries to entrench the rule of law to catalyze the emergence of the African private sector African leaders reviewed the continent’s progress in industrialization, economic diversification, and the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) in the…
NCF pledges commitment to 5-year strategic plan at 33rd AGM
By Fabian Ekeruche The Nigerian Conservation Foundation (NCF) has expressed commitment to effective implementation of the Strategic Action Plan (SAP) 2021-2025 aimed at ensuring that people prosper while living in harmony with nature. The foundation made the disclosure at…
ESG in Africa is colonialism 2.0
By NJ Ayuk Many today believe the era of colonialism in Africa is over. They’re wrong. The era of colonialism in Africa has merely entered a new and insidious phase. Some call it “neo-colonialism.” I call it colonialism 2.0. In colonialism…
“Cambridge of the East” shines: Global-minded Zhejiang University plays a growing role in pushing SDGs
The Sixteenth General Conference of The World Academy of Sciences for the advancement of science in developing countries (TWAS) was held in a hybrid format from November 21 to 24. Hundreds of scientists — including TWAS fellows, TWAS Young Affiliates and…
Rotary Club of Rumuomasi Delivers WASH Facility to Rivers Community Secondary School
-By Precious Ahiakwo-Ovie In a bid to improve sanitary conditions in the education sector in Rivers state, the Rotary Club of Rumuomasi has delivered a Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene project at the Community Senior Secondary School Rumuomasi. The Club constructed toilet…