By GNA Although avocado and pear are both fruits, they are completely different crops. In Ghana, avocado is popularly called ?paya? because of the attachment of the English word ?pear? (correctly pronounced as ?pair?) to its name. Like all other crops, the common or English names ?avocado? and ?pear? technically refer to the fruits; the […]
DR Congo’s health authorities have failed to explain where millions of dollars meant for building hospitals and other treatment centres have gone, a public accountability group said on Monday. The Congolese arm of the Publish What You Pay global network — primarily concerned with transparency in the resources sector — said it looked into 35 […]
Abuja — On the 25th day of August 2020, World Health Organization (WHO) Africa region was certified polio free by the Africa Regional Certification Commission for Polio Eradication (ARCC), as Nigeria achieved the wild polio virus free status. Professor Oyewale Tomori, a leading virologist who helped spearhead Nigeria’s effort to kick out polio from the […]
By Royal Uche Lagos — Chichi Okafor, a 30-year-old Nigerian woman, unexpectedly became pregnant again before her daughter turned six months old. Although Okafor knew about using condoms to prevent unwanted pregnancies, she felt powerless. “My husband does not like it, so we resorted to the withdrawal method,” Okafor says. “I am three months pregnant. […]
ANALYSIS By Janusz Paweska and Michelle J. Groome As the COVID-19 pandemic rages on in Africa amid insufficient vaccination rollout, viral haemorrhagic fever has again raised its head. This adds to public health turmoil on the continent where resources to respond to emerging and re-emerging epidemic prone zoonotic diseases remain limited. In the first week […]
