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The House of Representatives has introduced a bill to prohibit all public and civil servants and their immediate family members from patronising private schools and health care services.
The president of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, has urged the federal government and petroleum regulatory authorities to take decisive action against refinery licence holders who fail to proceed with ...
The federal government has taken a firm position regarding states that opt to reduce electricity tariffs, stating that the responsibility for the corresponding subsidy must be borne by the states ...
The Association of the Parents of the Missing Chibok Girls has mourned former President Muhammadu Buhari. It acknowledged Buhari's administration's role in securing the release of 103 of the 276 ...
Parents of the 87 Chibok school girls still in captivity have called on Nigerian government to "move beyond rhetoric" and return their children back home.
Press Release - Three Southern African countries now have Event-Based Surveillance (EBS) Guidelines--a critical tool for detecting and responding to emerging health risks. Event-based surveillance ...
Analysis - Protecting livestock in areas where large carnivores (like lions) live is increasingly important as human land use expands, wildlife habitat shrinks, and climatic changes reshape the ways ...
Efforts to strategically leverage health diplomacy to foster cooperation, strengthen partnerships, and promote stability across nations gained momentum when Africa CDC's Eastern Africa Regional ...
Analysis - Statistics professor Johan Ferreira was feeling overwhelmed by the amount of "screen time" involved in online learning in 2021. He imagined students must be feeling the same way, and ...
Press Release - Somalia and Djibouti are showing that, even in complex and challenging environments, it is possible to build systems that protect public health and foster trust. The two countries have ...
Press Release - Results from a newly published study highlight the growing spread of drug resistance across 14 African countries, underscoring the urgent need to strengthen laboratory testing, data ...
Analysis - Ghana stands out in west Africa as a nation that has not experienced terrorist attacks, even though it's geographically close to countries that have. In Burkina Faso, Mali and Nigeria, ...