A medical practitioner, Nseabasi Ekanem, blamed poor parenting for the increasing wave of drug abuse in the country. The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) said recent statistics have revealed that 40 per cent of Nigerian youth between 18 and 35 years are deeply involved in the abuse of drugs. Atinuke Aduloju, the chief superintendent […]
By Eldon Opiyo A microbe that is transmitted between male and female mosquitoes but can also block reproduction could be key to controlling malaria by targeting its release into mosquito populations, a study says. The study published in Frontiers in Microbiology found that the microbe called Microsporidia MB can pass from one mosquito to another as they mate. It […]
South Africa, which has struggled to obtain Covid vaccines too rare, too expensive before launching its immunization campaign with much delay, is now facing a disturbing rejection of the vaccine by part of its population. In front of this vaccination center in Johannesburg, the queue was getting longer and longer until a few weeks ago. […]
Nowadays everything we do, everything we eat is filtered through the health-craze lens. Is it healthy? Could it be healthier? Who certified it as being healthy? More often than not, walking between the produce aisles of supermarkets may now result in bouts of confusion, plenty of questions and numerous raised eyebrows. For example, there are […]
