Health & Education
Homophobia in Nigeria
Posted by on Mar 9, 2007, 11:05
A poisonous piece of legislation is quickly making its way through the Nigerian National Assembly. Billed as an anti-gay-marriage act, it is a far-reaching assault on basic rights of association, assembly and expression. Chillingly, the legislation, proposed last year by the administration of President Olusegun Obasanjo, has the full and enthusiastic support of the leader of Nigeria's powerful Anglican church. Unless the international community speaks out quickly and forcefully against the bill, it is almost certain to become law.
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Daily HIV/AIDS Report
Posted by Kaisernetwork.org on Dec 19, 2005, 11:35
Although Nigeria "should be at the forefront" of Africa's fight against HIV/AIDS, many people living with the disease in the country say it is "failing miserably in its response" to the epidemic,
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Nigerian Aids funding on hold
Posted by News24.com on Dec 19, 2005, 10:58
Lagos - The world's top funding body in the fight against AIDS may freeze grants to Nigeria, citing concerns about data gathering and spending.
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800,000 Nigerian Children Orphaned by AIDS
Posted by ThisDay on Jul 19, 2004, 22:44
An estimated 800,000 Nigerian children became orphans in 2003 as a result of the death of their parents from HIV/AIDS related complications.
HIV/AIDS: Nigeria May Lose N11.295b World Bank Grants
Posted by ThisDay on Jun 28, 2004, 13:24
Nigeria may lose N11.295 billion (an equivalent of $80.68 million), being unused World Bank HIV/AIDS grant to the country. Out of the N12.642 billion (about $90.3 million) fund approved for the country by the World Bank since 2002 to combat the HIV/AIDS scourge, Nigeria has only used N1.347 billion (about $9.62 million).
WHO warns of polio epidemic as virus spreads rapidly across Africa
Posted by Yahoo on Jun 22, 2004, 22:06
ENEVA (AFP) - Central and west Africa are on the brink of the largest polio epidemic in recent years, the World Health Organisation warned after the disease appeared to have spread across the continent from Nigeria to Sudan's strife-torn Darfur region.
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US Group Picks Nigerian Students for Training
Posted by ThisDay on Jun 21, 2004, 17:15
A non-governmental organisation from lowa in the United States of America (USA), IRIS, has begun the selection of another batch of secondary school students from the north for a one year training programme in that country.
'HIV Spread Drops'
Posted by ThisDay on May 26, 2004, 10:11
Health Minister, Prof. Eyitayo Lambo, has said going by the recent sentinel survey conducted by Federal Ministry of Health on national HIV/Syphilis, result had shown that the prevalence has dropped by 5.0 per cent.
Africa targets polio as vaccine opponents relent
Posted by CNN on May 17, 2004, 18:51
African leaders approved an emergency strategy Monday to immunize 74 million children in 21 nations against polio, U.N. officials said, amid signs a heavily Muslim Nigerian state are ready to abandon the vaccine boycott that allowed the disease to mushroom.
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Gani queries Law School record on legal practice
Posted by Vanguard on May 13, 2004, 09:10
Chief Gani Fawehinmi (SAN), has asked the Nigerian Law School to withdraw, within seven days, a book authored by it, detailing dates legal practitioners were called to the bar from January 1963 to July 2003, because, according to him, the publication is full of factual errors and tragic misinformation capable of destroying the career of many legal practitioners in the country.
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