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Organisation of American States Donates 100,000 US Dollars to Earthquake Victims in Haiti
The Assistant Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Albert R. Ramdin, has handed a check for 100,000 US dollars on the organization’s behalf to the Permanent Representative of Haiti, Ambassador Duly Brutus, to aid in providing...
UNAIDS Commends HIV/AIDS Programs in Kenya
The Executive Director of UNAIDS, Michel Sidibe has commended Kenya’s HIV/AIDS programs, saying coordination among various AIDS agencies in the country is going well. He noted that more people are dying of AIDS in Africa than in the developed countries...
Nigeria Makes ‘remarkable Progress’ in Polio Eradication
The Executive Director of the Nigeria National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), Dr Muhammed Pate, has said Nigeria has made “remarkable progress’’ in polio eradication. Pate told journalists on Monday in Abuja that polio cases witnessed...
Nigeria’s Low Economic Development Blamed on Neglected Culture
The Executive Director of Nigeria’s Centre of Black African Arts and Culture ( CBAAC), Professor Tunde Babawale, says the neglect of the nation’s culture has been responsible for its inability to develop economically. Babawale told journalists in...
Reinforcing CHUTZPAH Over Health Care Reform
Having already presented a Chutzpah of the Week award to Howard Dean for asking “Where’s the reform?” in the health care bill that was debated in the Senate, I may be accused by some of being redundant in offering another award for...
Foundation for Human Rights And Democracy Alarmed Over the Resurgence of ’dark Days of Cowboy Justice’ in Liberia
The Liberian rights group Foundation for Human Rights and Democracy (FOHRD) has expressed alarm at the resurgence of the ’dark days of cowboy justice’, when citizens accused of crimes were first paraded and drilled around and subjected to harassment...
Civil Society Petitions Malawi Government to Reinstate Tuition Subsidy for Nurses
Malawi’s civil society organizations on Monday petitioned government over its decision to stop paying nurses and midwifery students school fees in the form of subsidies to train them at Christian Health Association of Malawi (CHAM) colleges. The government,...
International NGO Battles Malaria in Oil Rich Niger Delta’s Rural Communities
As Nigeria grapples with high deaths caused by malaria, an NGO, the International Centre for Women Empowerment and Child Development (ICWECD) has taken the battle against the disease to 200 rural communities in oil rich Delta State where malaria has become...
