Child and Youth Traffiking and urban migration continues to rise in Nigeria

June 15, 2013 | konknaijagirl

Child-trafficking booms:Ordeal of child-hawkers 0 June 15, 2013 | 1:06 am Just Human

By Prisca Sam-Duru In 2008, Mazi Amaechi paid a woman (names withheld) from Ebonyi State but married to an Imo State indigene, the sum of N8,000 and … Read More

Nigeria now has second highest population living with HIV/AIDS globally – NACA

June 13, 2013 | konknaijaboy

The National Agency for the Control of AIDS, NACA, on Tuesday disclosed that 3.4 million Nigerians were living with HIV/AIDS, the second largest globally.

The agency’s Director-General, Prof. John Idoko, stated this at a Senate public hearing on a bill … Read More

UNICEF & EU in pact to contribute circa $59 for health and water projects in Nigeria

June 7, 2013 | konknaijagirl

The European Union and United Nations Children’s Fund agreed to contribute 44.75 million euros ($59 million) for water and health projects in Nigeria. The EU and Unicef, as the UN agency is known, will provide 30 million euros over four … Read More

Fresh Outbreak of Polio reported in Taraba

June 7, 2013 | konknaijagirl

SAAYOR Village, Sendirde Ward in Gassol Local Government Area of Taraba State has recorded a fresh outbreak of polio in the community. This is the second case of poliomyelitis recorded in the local government after four years of the virus-free … Read More

International respondents report a lack of ‘specifics’ in latest anti terror moves in Nigeria

June 7, 2013 | konknaijagirl

Military commanders promised a tour of this northeast Nigeria city, the birthplace of the nation’s Islamic extremist insurgency, to show the busy streets and people selling fruits from wheelbarrows pressed right up against the road.

But the scars of the … Read More

Chinese drug maker pushes African anti-counterfeiting drive with mobile phones

June 4, 2013 | konknaijagirl

Chinese malaria drugs giant, Guilin, says it is spearheading effort in Africa to enable patients and consumers detect fake malaria drugs using mobile phone technology, goldkeys.

Guilin says the new technology which kicks off in Nigeria before being expanded across … Read More