Society & Lifestyle

      A Non-Governmental Organisation, Hope Behind Bars Africa, has inaugurated the Farming Justice Project at the Kuje Custodial Centre in Abuja to promote inmate rehabilitation and tackle food insecurity within correctional facilities.   The initiative, implemented in partnership with the Nigerian Correctional Service, is funded by the European ...

      No fewer than 117 beneficiaries from northern Nigeria have departed for Algeria to pursue various academic programmes under a fully funded study scholarship facilitated by the Sheikh Dahiru Usman Bauchi Foundation.   Speaking during a send-forth and orientation ceremony organised for the beneficiaries in Bauchi, the Chairman ...

      The Nigerian Meteorological Agency has predicted sunshine and cloudiness from Monday to Wednesday across the nation.   NiMet`s weather outlook released in Abuja envisaged sunny skies on Monday with patches of clouds over the northern region.   It anticipated prospects of isolated thunderstorms with light rains over ...

    Three years after the tragic passing of Big Brother Naija star and singer, Patrick Fakoya, popularly known as Rico Swavey, his management and fans have paid emotional tributes to his memory.   In a heartfelt post shared on Monday on X, the management described Rico as a beacon ...

    The World Health Organisation sounded the alarm on Monday over soaring numbers of drug-resistant bacterial infections, compromising the effectiveness of life-saving treatments and rendering minor injuries and common infections potentially deadly.   The United Nations’ health agency warned that one in six laboratory-confirmed bacterial infections worldwide in 2023 ...

      US President Donald Trump and his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah al-Sisi will on Monday chair a Gaza peace summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, also attended by world leaders, including the UN chief.   The gathering in the Red Sea resort town will bring together “leaders from more than ...

    The Kano State Fire Service has confirmed the death of two children who drowned on Thursday while swimming in a stream at Hayin Yawa Gada in the Tudun Wada Local Government Area of the state.   Similarly, the agency also confirmed the death of a man whose body ...

    The National Primary Health Care Development Agency, in collaboration with state governments and development partners, has intensified efforts to vaccinate 106 million Nigerian children against vaccine-preventable diseases.   The nationwide initiative aims to raise awareness for the ongoing Integrated Measles-Rubella, Polio, and Human Papillomavirus vaccination campaign, which will ...

    As the world marks the International Day of the Girl Child, a non-governmental organisation, the Gender Educators Initiative (GEI), has called on the Federal Government to prioritise the creation of safe spaces for girls living in conflict-affected and crisis-prone communities across Nigeria.   The Executive Director of GEI, ...

      A paediatrician, Ayobola Adebowale, known as Your Baby Doctor, has explained that some newborn girls may experience light bleeding shortly after birth, a condition medically known as pseudo menstruation or neonatal menstruation.   Adebowale in a video obtained by our correspondent on Saturday said the condition occurs ...