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ARE OUR LAWMAKERS FOR US OR AGAINST US; SUPPORT FOR PAEDOPHILES?
There is a popular saying “for whom brain is given, sense is expected”. Ahmed Yerima, former Zamfara State governor presently a senator recently, opposed strongly the removal of a clause that under the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria allows girl child marriage under the guise of religion. According to him, removing the clause…
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THE PREGNANCY STORIES NO ONE WANTS TO HEAR; WORLD POPULATION DAY!
Getty Images Today is world’s population Day and I join the the United Nations in raising awareness about the prevalence of adolescent pregnancy. Every year around the world around the world 16 million girls under 18 years of age give birth yearly. 19 out of every 100 girls in developing countries give birth before 18…
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AHF PROVIDES CONDOM DISPENSERS IN THE FIGHT AGAINST HIV/AIDS
Aids Healthcare Foundation (an advocate in the treatment and prevention of HIV/AIDS in the Country), has intensified her monthly condom access, education and advocacy initiative; one of the organization’s strategies for reducing the high rate of HIV prevalence in Nigeria. This initiative sees the positioning of condom dispensers and baskets in strategic places in the FCT…
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NEW INITIATIVE TO BOOST FAMILY PLANNING FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, has launch two new initiatives that will increase access to family planning and improve maternal health in some of the most-hard-to-reach areas around the world, including post-conflict and post-disaster countries. These initiatives build on UNFPA’s more than 40 years of support to family planning and showcase its leadership in…
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OMG! BABY RESCUED FROM SEWAGE PIPE AFTER BEING FLUSHED AWAY.
I have a heard lot of sad stories of babies thrown in wells, pit toilets refuse bins…..those stories gave me chills but this story is different……and after seeing the pictures, I have cried my heart out. what could have made the mother do this to her child? From the Daily Mail. Firefighters in eastern China…
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THE REAL REASON WHY ANGELINA JOLIE DECIDED TO GO PUBLIC ABOUT HER DOUBLE MASECTOMY
Culled from the BBC. Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie says she decided to go public about opting to have an elective double mastectomy to “encourage every woman” to think about their own risk of breast cancer. The 37-year-old was told by doctors that she had an 87% risk of developing breast cancer without this radical treatment…
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MORE HEALTH WORKERS TO BE DEPLOYED TO THE RURAL AREAS…SAVING LIVES !
Source The Vanguard The Minister of State for Health, Dr Muhammad Pate, on Monday, said the Federal Government had concluded plans to employ 10,000 health workers by the end of the year. Pate said this at the launch of the Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme (SURE-P) Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT)…
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ANGELINA JOLIE REVEALS HER FIGHT AGAINST BREAST CANCER…..HEART WARMING STORY.
Last year it was Guiliana Rancic whose fight against cancer touched our hearts and now it is Angelina Jolie who is sharing her story with women all over the world. I am sharing these stories because I believe we can fight cancer. This year alone thousands of Nigerian women (including notable Nigerian women) have died…
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BABY FACTORY UNCOVERED: THE OTHER KIND OF MODERN DAY SLAVERY
Culled from The Nation. Nine girls, forced into pregnancy at a ‘baby factory’ in Imo State ,yesterday spoke of how they became victims. The nine were arrested by the police yesterday after initially escaping during a raid of the ‘baby factory’.Their arrest brings to 26 the number of victims rescued from Ahamefula Motherless Babies Home, Umuaka…
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LAW ON NUMBER OF CHILDREN; AGREE OR DISAGREE?
Culled from the Punch. Niger State Governor Babangida Aliyu on Wednesday advocated a law to regulate the number of wives and children any family can have in the country. He added that keeping large families was no longer trendy. He also admonished clerics in the country to preach against keeping large families. Aliyu stated this…
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