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By Elvis Omoregie BENIN CITY - A Coalition of Orhionmwon Youth Elite Groups (COYEG) has lauded the industrialization policy of Edo State Governor, Mr Godwin Obaseki. In a joint statement by its President, Comrade Jonathan Okunbor and Secretary, Comrade Goodluck Osama Ogbeide, the group, said the governor has demonstrated sufficient courage in building the capacity of Edo youths towards addressing the daunting economic challenges in the Country. The statement, appreciated Governor Obaseki “for the inclusion of youths in governance," following the appointment of Mr. Osamwonyi Atu, a kinsman into the Board of Edo State Oil and Gas Producing Areas Development Commission (EDSOGPADEC). The group charged Atu who hails from Evbuobanosa village in Orhionmwon Local Government Area of the State, to justify the confidence reposed in him. It also urged the state government to accord the ocal government area endowed with 85 percent of Oil and Gas deposit in the state, its pride of pla

Akpomejero Friday, Benin Edo state governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, yesterday said the misplacement of core societal values, are the bane of improper waste management in Nigeria. The governor made the assertion at a stakeholder forum held in Benin City, the State Capital, organized by the Junior Chambers International (JCI) ahead of their upcoming program, tagged  World Clean Up Day to sensitized the citizens and to brainstorm on ideas, and to forge the way forward and to decipher the role of government and private sector towards achieving a circular economy in a clean healthy safe environment in Nigeria. The governor who spoke through his SSA on environment, Dr. Felix Iyalomhe, maintained that in the olden days waste of any kind were being managed more on consciousness of the core values of the society rather than the scientific and other methods being practice today. According to him, the government is working on policies and programs with all stakeholders and organized private sect

By Isaac Eranga The Chairman, National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN) Egor Local Government Chapter, Edo State, Comrade Peter Aguebor, has called on state and national governments to create enabling environment for youths to actualize themselves. Comrade Aguebor said this at the auspices of the 2018 International Youth Day celebration, with the theme: safe space for youths. "The theme looks at how we can give youths enabling environment to actualize themselves, and be included in governance", he said. He said the space being agited for, falls within the following spheres: physical, economic, socio-cultural, spiritual, and political. Speaking, the State Chairman of NYCN, Comrade Innocent Ajayi, who was represented by the State Deputy Chairman, Comrade Michael Omomila, commended the United Nations for this year's theme, saying youths indeed need safe space in all spheres of life's endeavour to actualise themselves. "I want to use this opportunity to call on p

An investment in breastfeeding in Nigeria is a cost-effective investment in our nation’s health, our economy and our future workforce. Photo credit: Nigeria Health Watch From Zero to Six: Can breastfeeding our babies accelerate Nigeria’s development? #WBWNG2018 Every first week of August Nigeria joins the rest of the world to commemorate World Breastfeeding Week. Yet, if  statistics  are anything to go by, one might question what impact this 26-year long tradition has had on the rate of breastfeeding in Nigeria. Exclusive breastfeeding rates in Nigeria still remain dismally low, tottering between 17 – 25 percent nationally.  During the week starting August 1, 1992, nations around the world commemorated  World Breastfeeding Week . The purpose of this weeklong awareness campaign, marked by over  120 countries , was to highlight the huge health benefits that breastfeeding brings to babies, as well as a wider push for a mother’s health, focusing on good nutrition, poverty reduction and

Liverpool, UK, 11 August 2018 -  A major new study has shown that rotavirus vaccination reduced infant diarrhoea deaths by 34% in rural Malawi, a region with high levels of child deaths. The study led by scientists at the University of Liverpool, UCL, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and partners in Malawi provides the first population-level evidence from a low-income country that rotavirus vaccination saves lives. The findings, published in  The   Lancet Global Health , add considerable weight to the World Health Organisation's (WHO) recommendation for rotavirus vaccine to be included in all national immunisation programmes.  Professor Nigel Cunliffe from the University of Liverpool’s Centre for Global Vaccine Research, one of the study leads, said: “Rotavirus remains a leading cause of severe diarrhoea and death among infants and young children in many countries in Africa and Asia. Our findings strongly advocate for the incorporation of rotavirus vaccine into th