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Tobacco watchdogs express COVID-19 related concerns in Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Indonesia

Global tobacco industry watchdog organisations, STOP (Stopping Tobacco Organisations and Products) and Action on Smoking and Health (ASH), are urging caution following a rash of reports that tobacco...

Michael Simire - May 8, 2020

Human Welfare

UN, EU present Covid-19 protective equipment to Correctional Service

As part of ongoing effort to prevent the spread of coronavirus in the various correctional centres in Nigeria, the United Nations Office on Drugs...

Michael Simire - May 7, 2020

Human Welfare

Internally displaced children, most vulnerable to COVID-19, says UNICEF

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says the internally displaced children in Nigeria are among the world’s most vulnerable to the COVID-19 pandemic. UNICEF Representative...

Michael Simire - May 5, 2020

Human Welfare

Lagos residents worried at poor social distancing amid lockdown ease

Some residents of Lagos State are worried over the non-compliance of with social distancing directive aimed at reducing the COVID-19 spread. Many Lagos residents used...

Michael Simire - May 4, 2020

Human Welfare

Coronavirus frontline workers will also help in climate crisis

May Boeve (executive-director at 350.org), Luisa Neubauer (German climate activist and one of the main organisers of the Fridays for Future movement in Germany), Sharan Burrow (general secretary of the...

Michael Simire - May 1, 2020

Human Welfare

May Day: World is witnessing three pandemics – Vandana Shiva

We are witnessing three pandemics simultaneously. The first is the Corona Pandemic. The second is the Hunger Pandemic. The third is Pandemic of Destruction...

Michael Simire - May 1, 2020

Human Welfare

How firm’s support improves livelihood of youths in rural Mali

Momou Dembélé, 30, is a qualified electrician. Married with two children, she left her hometown of Kimparana, where she trained, for Ségou in central...

Michael Simire - April 22, 2020

Human Welfare

UNODC, Correctional Service raise awareness about Covid-19 among inmates

As COVID-19 outbreaks in prisons around the globe have shown, prisoners are particularly vulnerable to be infected. Once the virus has reached the inside...

Michael Simire - April 20, 2020

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