Executive Director YOSPIS, Hajia Zainab Nasir Ahmad. By Anietie Akpan Amid drug menace, 80 Percent of Youths in Kano State, Northern Central Nigeria are at risk of becoming a lost generation. The Youth Society for the Prevention of Infectious Diseases and Social Vices (YOSPIS) raised the alarm describing the situation as a “ticking time bomb”…
Excited students of Community Secondary School, Ikot Ewa, showing off the donated sanitary pads. By Asuquo Cletus PADBANK, a humanitarian initiative aimed at tackling period poverty in Cross River State, has raised awareness on menstrual hygiene and donated sanitary pads to students of Community Secondary School, Ikot Ewa, in Akpabuyo Local Government Area of the…
By Anietie Akpan In celebration of the 38th anniversary of State creation, Akwa Ibom First Lady Designate, Lady Helen Eno Obareki, has blessed 38 new born babies in three hospitals in the state, with cash and gift items. At the University of Uyo Teaching Hospital, Uyo, Lady Obareki who was represented by the Commissioner…
Gov. Umo Eno during the Ecco meeting on Friday. By Dianabasi Effiong The Akwa Ibom State Government rose from its Executive Council meeting on Friday in Uyo to declare a state of emergency in the health sector. The council also proposed a N695 billion supplementary budget for 2025. The state of emergency in the sector…
Gov. Commissioning the buses. By Anietie Akpan The Colleges of Nursing and Midwifery Sciences in Itigidi, Calabar and Ogoja, have taken delivery of 32-seater buses, courtesy of Governor Bassey Otu of Cross River State. Governor Otu who presented the three buses on Wednesday, described the effect as part of his administration’s investment in preventive health…
Gov. Bassey Otu in a handshake with the Special Assistant to the President on Public Health, Mrs. Uju Rochas-Anwuka, flanked by his Deputy, Rt. Hon. Peter Odey (left) and Commissioner for Agriculture and Irrigation Development, Johnson Ebokpo (right). By Anietie Akpan The Federal Government has described the country’s malnutrition crisis as a national emergency just…