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African climate stories should be amplified to global audience — Oluwaseyi Moejoh

A climate change enthusiast, Oluwaseyi Moejoh, is the co-founder and Executive Director of U-recycle Initiative Africa. She speaks to OGHENOVO EGODO-MICHAEL about her career, passion for preserving the environment and other issues What schools did you attend? I attended Queen’s College, Lagos, for my secondary school education, and I’m currently studying Law at the University

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Teachers are like gods in Nigeria, arrogant — UNILAG don

A professor of Languages at the University of Lagos, and the immediate past Director of the Confucius Institute, Professor Chimdi Maduagwu, tells NAOMI CHIMA about his career, the country’s educational sector and other issues What can you tell us about your background? I am from a town called Egbu in Owerri, Imo State. I was

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FG plans relocation of Agodi, Ikoyi, Enugu, 26 other prisons

The Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, has revealed the plan of the Federal Government to relocate 29 correctional centres from urban areas. Tunji-Ojo said the relocation became imperative to curtail the security risk the prisons posed to the society because of their closeness to urban centres. The minister listed some of the prisons to include:

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Sugar is the intimate friend of cancer

A clear relationship between sugar and cancer leads scientists to two conclusions. One of these conclusions is that the use of sugar contributes to cancer and that going without sugar helps to slow the spread of cancer. 100 years ago, most people consumed about two kilograms of sugar per annum. These days, people consume on

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Health benefits of Noni plant (1)

Sometimes this year, BBC Yoruba interviewed a family who were hospitalised and even lost one because they ate cassava peels. During the interview, the woman said they had nothing to eat and she went to pick cassava peels, dried it and made it into powder to be eaten as “Amala”.That story broke my heart and

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Restrict families from visiting hospitalised cholera patients to curb spread – Doctors

As cholera rages in the country, public health physicians have stressed the need for hospital management to restrict families from visiting loved ones on admission being treated for the diarrhoeal infection, warning that it is among the factors fuelling spread. The experts stressed that reducing such visits had become crucial as the highly infectious disease

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Akuskura: Deadly psychoactive substance fuelling mental illness burden, experts warn

As youths continually devise new ways to satisfy their cravings for psychoactive substances, psychiatrists, medical and drug experts warn that this trend forecasts a bleak future and may worsen Nigeria’s mental health crisis. They noted that the situation would further impact the productivity level of the country, leading to more economic losses and a shortage

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