Health
Drink water – lots of it
With the temperature in Maiduguri reaching a scorching 43°C on Monday, and with no let-up in sight, doctors and medics have advised residents to drink as much clean water as […]
Vaccine is harmless and effective: Get inoculated now
Take the vaccine: It is harmless and there is absolutely nothing to fear from it and no reason to doubt it. That was the message from Bishop Stephen Dami Mamza, […]
Don’t doubt the vaccine, go and get it
Africa’s most populous country − with about 200-million people − received its first delivery of 4-million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesday. Doctors, scientists and scholars in Borno State’s […]
New COVID-19 variant is deadlier than ever
Breathlessness and a very high fever are just two of the symptoms of the new variant of the deadly coronavirus COVID-19. Abdullahi Bukar, a medical doctor who works at the […]
Pandemic ‘too inconvenient’ to be real
Some residents of Damboa in Borno State don’t believe in the coronavirus Covid-19 because it is too “inconvenient”. Alhaji Kolo Tasama, a resident, said he did not believe in the […]
Residents of camp are worried sick
If you’re going to go into labour, don’t do it at night in the internally displaced persons’ Sangaya Camp because there are no health workers to help and soldiers patrolling […]
Pregnant women “left to die’
Pregnant women and other patients fear dying in a hospital because the heath workers spend less than 15 hours a day at the facility in Damboa. Bintu Mu’azu, a patient […]
Empty bellies leave residents hungering for more
The high cost of food is leaving some residents going hungry in Maiduguri, Borno State. RNI reporter Hadiza Hawud spoke to some of the residents. Abubakar Zannah Musa Ajid […]
People are ‘sick’ of the lack of toilets
The lack of latrines in the Dalwa camp in Maiduguri in Borno State is becoming a health hazard for the internally displaced people living there as they are often forced […]
High Number of Sickle Cell Babies in Nigeria
Professor Nnodu Obiageli, the Director Centre of Excellence for Sickle Cell Disease Research and Training, University of Abuja, says that an estimated 150, 000 babies were born with sickle cell […]
