Category: Health & Environment

‘Our Water Our Right Campaign’ Wins Transformative Cities 2019 People’s Choice Award

The ‘Our Water Our Right Campaign’ spearheaded by the Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) has won the Transformative Cities 2019 People’s Choice Award in the water category.

The campaign, a grassroots-heavy initiative that amplifies the voice of community people, was launched in 2014 in Lagos to counter government’s plans to privatise the water sector.

It received the highest votes in the water category on the sidelines of the International Conference on ‘The Future is Public’ holding in Amsterdam, which also featured the energy, food and housing categories. Prior to the announcement, the eight finalists debated and discussed opportunities and challenges of transforming local contexts to address global challenges.

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Osahon Enabulele Becomes First Nigerian To Head The Commonwealth Medical Association (CMA)

Osahon Enabulele, a physician has become the first Nigerian to head the Commonwealth Medical Association, (CMA).

He was inaugurated on the 5th of November 2019 at the 25th president of the association during the opening ceremony of the 25th Triennial Conference of the 57-year-old renowned global medical body holding in Abuja, Nigeria.

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Dr. Elizabeth Ehi-Ebewele Honored With 2019 Clark R. Bavin Wildlife Law Enforcement Award

The late Dr. Elizabeth Ehi-Ebewele and 11 others have been honoured with the Clark R. Bavin Wildlife Law Enforcement Award by the Animal Welfare Institute in Geneva.

The awardees were presented with the award on 20th August 2019 for demonstrating excellence in combating wildlife crime.

Dr. Elizabeth Ehi-Ebewele created Nigeria’s first national audience on wildlife crime. According to the organisers, she played a key role in the decision by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to develop a coordinated response on wildlife crime.

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Dr. Eleanor Nwadinobi Emerges President-elect Of Medical Women International Association (MWIA) In USA

Dr. Eleanor Nwadinobi has emerged President-elect of the Medical Women International Association (MWIA) in the United States of America.

The MWIA is a global association of all medical women doctors in the world.

Dr. Eleanor Nwadinobi became the first Nigerian to emerge as president-elect of the 100-year-old association.

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NISA Premiere Hospital In Abuja Performs First Successful Kidney Transplant

NISA Premiere Hospital, Abuja, has carried out its first kidney transplantation led by Dr. Obi Ekwenna, a Transplant and Urologist Surgeon and a Nigerian American, a Master Public Health Specialist and Registered Nurse Mary Brown from the United States of America and Dr. Lemah Mabasu Urologist Surgeon from NISA hospital.

Chairman of NISA Premiere Hospital, Dr. Ibrahim Wada disclosed this on 3rd of August 2019 in Abuja.

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Misitura Lawal-Arowona Develops Anti-Tuberculosis Metal Drug

Mrs. Misitura Lawal-Arowona, a PhD scholar with the University of Ilorin and a lecturer at Kebbi State University has successfully developed metal attached anti-tuberculosis drug.

According to a report published in the Sunday Times of India, under a sandwich fellowship at Faculty of Science of The Maharaja Sayajirao University (MSU) of Baroda, India, Mrs. Misitura Lawal-Arowona, under the supervision of Professor Joshua Obaleye, has promised to tackle the menace of tuberculosis (TB) with the drug both in African countries as well as India.

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Hauwa Liman And Saifura Hussaina Awarded Florence Nightingale Medals [2019]

Hauwa Liman And Saifura Hussaina, two nurses abducted and killed in 2018 by Boko Haram terrorists in Borno have been awarded the Florence Nightingale medals, the highest international award in the nursing profession.

Hauwa Liman and Saifura Hussaina were abducted in Rann in March 2018, where they were working as midwives for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

The parents of Hauwa Liman and Saifura Hussaina received the medals their late daughters were awarded posthumously at a ceremony led by president of the Nigerian Red Cross Society, Bolaji Anani and Eloi Fillion, head of delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross.

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