Tag: Children
-
God’s Children In Faskari, Stephen Ojapah
STEPHEN OJAPAH MSP We are gradually rounding up the great season of Lent. By next week we will begin the Holy week festivities and ceremonies, another wonderful moment of divine encounter. For me as a priest, the week is my most cherished week of all the weeks of the Year. The entire liturgical ceremonies reminds…
-
Picking the bills is not enough – Francis Ewherido
By Francis Ewherido I read a post where a friend was talking about housewives who inflate children’s school fees to dupe their husbands. She was condemning the act, which actually is most condemnable. But my interest was not in the fraudulent behaviour of these women. I wondered why these men do not know the fees…
-
What truly is life? – Francis Ewherido
Francis Ewherido My birthdays are always times to reflect on my life and life generally. No birthday is complete without that. But I also like to make my birthdays public. The avalanche of prayers and well wishes I get mean the world to me. But making it public and using it to reflect are inversely…
-
AVON, UBA Partner on Bespoke Health Plans for Children
Avon Healthcare Limited, a leading health management organisation has partnered with pan-African financial institution, United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, to develop well-tailored and unique health plans for children. The collaboration to develop the new health plans became necessary due to the gap that exists in the area of child healthcare and both organisations…
-
The Fidel Castro children are here, By Owei Lakemfa
By Owei Lakemfa Clara Margarita Pulido Escandell is a 61-year old Cuban who breathes Africa. When I first met her and she discovered I had a trade union background, she enquired about the African Labour leader, Alhaji Hassan Sunmonu the founding President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC. Sunmonu had spoken at the university in…
-
Safeguard education: Implement the safe schools declaration – Ozioma Onyenweaku
By Ozioma Onyenweaku The Safe Schools Declaration is an international commitment that advocates support for protection of students, teachers and schools during armed conflict. The Safe Schools Declaration emerged from The Third International Conference on Safe Schools hosted by the government of Spain with the support of governments of Argentina and Norway held in Oslo…
-
Biliri crisis update: Our children, wives detained daily by police without food, Tangales cry out
By Emman Ovuakporie Tangales in Biliri Local Government of Gombe State are not happy over the manner security operatives are detaining children and their wives without food. TheNewsguru.com, (TNG) reports the update on recent developments after President Muhamnadu Buhari called for caution in the on-going leadership tussle in Biliri. Sources close to the community leaders…
-
Why children won’t be given Covid-19 vaccine in Nigeria – FG
The federal government has explained why children in the country will not be receiving the approved COVID-19 vaccines when it finally arrives. The Executive Director of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), Faisal Shuaib, while speaking at Monday’s weekly briefing of the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19, said the vaccines have not…
-
Tragedy: Six children killed, others injured after accidentally detonating an explosive in Zamfara
Six children have been feared killed following an explosion in Magami village in Maradun Local Government Area of Zamfara State.The state’s Commissioner for Security and Home Affairs Abubakar Dauran on Tuesday said the victims went to the bush in search of firewood when they picked an explosive devise. Dauran said the kids began to play…
-
BREAKING: Six children killed while playing with ‘explosive devise’ found in Zamfara bush
Six children are feared dead following an explosion that rocked Magami village in Maradun Local Government Area of Zamfara State. Confirming the incident on Tuesday, the Commissioner for Security and Home Affairs Abubakar Dauran, said the victims went to the bush in search of firewood when they picked an explosive devise and began playing with…