Health

The Everyday Habits That Are Making You Look Older Than You Really Are

Cutting out fats, perfume, failing to cleanse after removing makeup, and multitasking: These are the everyday habits that are making you look older. 1. Stop Sleeping on a Cotton Pillowcase One easy change people can make is investing in silk pillowcase...

Rwanda’s President Kagame Calls For Joint Efforts to Fund Healthcare in Africa

President Paul Kagame has urged governments and members of the private sector from across Africa to work more collectively to fund healthcare systems on the continent. He delivered the message yesterday while speaking at the African Leadership Meeting on Investing...

10 Deadliest Diseases in Human History

As violent as the human race can be towards one another, throughout history, the biggest executioner of the human race has always been deadly diseases. These are the 10 deadliest diseases in human history. 10. Influenza A-H1N1 (Swine Flu) Although it...

Marijuana Is The Most Commonly Used Illegal Drug in Nigeria – NBS

An illegal psychoactive drug, Cannabis which is popularly known as marijuana was the most widely used substance in Nigeria in 2018, followed by pharmaceutical opioids, mainly tramadol and codeine-containing cough syrups. In Nigeria, 14.3 million people (14 percent of the...

Bill Gates Foundation To Boosts Nigeria’s Healthcare System With $75m

Nigeria's Federal Government will receive the sum of $75m in the next five years from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for routine childhood immunisation. This is just as the government reiterated its commitment to childhood immunisation through innovative financing...

Apartheid Era: New Documentary Reveals Secret Group Plotted to Infect South Africa’s Black Population With Aids

During the Apartheid era, a powerful South Africa-based mercenary group intentionally tried to Infect South Africa's Black Population With Aids in the 1980s and 1990s, a former member of the group has claimed in a new documentary. Alexander Jones said...

WHO Issues Warning Over Ebola Outbreak Across East Africa

East African countries are working on measures to prevent Ebola virus outbreaks across borders after the World Health Organisation issued a warning of the virus spreading from Democratic Republic of Congo to Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and South Sudan. Nine neighbouring...

Nigeria: Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation – 10 Things a New Study Found

It takes place mostly in the shadows, but sexual violence against children is happening everywhere, regardless of a country’s economic status or its citizens’ quality of life. Yet, child sexual abuse and exploitation is preventable, and there are strategies...

Africa Will be Polio-free If Nigeria Records No New Cases by August 2019

Polio, is on the brink of eradication. The last case of wild poliovirus in Africa was reported in August 2016 in the north-eastern state of Borno, Nigeria. If no new cases of wild poliovirus are detected in Nigeria by August...

Just Like Rwanda, South Sudan Bans Bleaching Cream

South Sudan government has banned the importation and of skin lightening and bleaching products apparently to protect the people of South Sudan from being exposed to harmful chemicals used in manufacturing skin bleaching cosmetics. South Sudan has followed Ivory Coast,...
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Tarrafal Concentration Camp: The ‘Camp of Slow Death’ Where Portugal Imprisoned African Freedom Fighters in the 1960s

Tarrafal Concentration Camp, also known as the “Camp of Slow Death,” was one of Portugal’s most infamous colonial prisons....
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