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26 Million Or More Nigerian Children Lack Access to Water- UNICEF
UNICEF has said that more than 1.42 billion people, live in areas of high or extremely high water vulnerability in the world and one-third of Nigerian children do not have access to enough water. The agency’s statistics revealed that 26.5 million Nigerian children (29 percent) of the nation’s children are “experiencing high or extremely high…
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Experts Warn Against Panic As Giant Asteroid Makes Its Way To Earth
Scientist are asking people not to panic after NASA reported a giant-sized asteroid would make the closest approach to earth this Sunday. The giant space rock named 2001 FO32 by researchers has a diameter of several hundred metres and will approach Earth at a distance of about two million kilometres (1.2 million miles), US space…
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10million Girls At Risk Of Child Marriage Over The Next Decade
The United Nations Children’s Fund has said over the next decade, up to 10 million more girls will be at risk of becoming child brides as a result of the pandemic. UNICEF’s projection was tied to the increases through various pathways, including economic shocks, school closures and interruptions in services. Worldwide, an estimated 650 million…
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Covid-19: Angola Okays Primary School Resumption After 11 months
After an eleven-month long shutdown due to Covid-19, Angola has called for the reopening of primary schools. While a lot of citizens still feel more adequate safety rules should still be put in place before resumption, school authorities have assured parents that extra care is been taken to ensure the safety of their wards. Safety…
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Ebola Outbreak Triggers New Border Control Directives In Nigeria
The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has directed the Ministry of Health in Nigeria to step up surveillance at the nation’s borders, following new reports of an outbreak of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in Guinea and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The Council’s directive was disclosed at a State House briefing by Minister of…
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Guinea On High Alert As Ebola Death Toll Rises In Days
With a death toll of over 11,000 in 2014, new reports have revealed a fresh outbreak of Ebola on Sunday in Guinea which has now claimed four lives. Guinea reported an outbreak of Ebola on February 14, 2021, the first return of the disease there since the 2013-2016 surge, with cases and deaths reported in the…
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A New Pandemic? Here’s All You Need To Know About The Nipah Virus
While the world focuses on the novel coronavirus, new reports are cautioning on a potential outbreak of another virus called the Nipah Virus. First reported in Nipah, Malaysia in 1998, outbreaks have subsequently occurred in parts of North East India, Singapore, Philippines and most recently China. The Nipah virus outbreak in China had a fatality…
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Data On Common Types Of Cancer In Africa And The US
Cancer is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide, with approximately 14 million new cases in 2012 with the number of new cases expected to rise by about 70% over the next 2 decades. In 2015, cancer was the second leading cause of death, responsible for 8.8 million deaths globally. Approximately 70%…
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Experts Claim Immunotherapy Might Be The Big Break In Cancer Treatment
According to research published in Nature Immunology, a newly-discovered part of our immune system could be harnessed to treat all cancers. The Cardiff University team discovered a method of killing prostate, breast, lung and other cancers through cancer Immunotherapy called the Car-T Therapy. The Research While searching for previously undiscovered ways the human immune system…
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STUDY: Insufficient ICU Beds Linked To Thousands Of COVID-19 Deaths
A research study by Yale researchers claimed that during the early weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic, the increasing records of deaths were tied to the lack of ICU beds in hospitals. According to the study published in the Journal of Hospital Medicine, it found a significant association between the availability of hospital resources, particularly ICU…