AYRH: Connected Advocacy conduct training for Social Mobilizer By Isaac Eranga Benin City: The Executive Director of Connected Advocacy for Empowerment and Youth Development Initiative - Prince Israel Orekha, said there was need for concerted effort to address the prevalent rate of unwanted pregnancy and unsafe abortion amongst adolescents and youths in Nigeria through life planning programs.  Prince Orekha said this in a one-day step down training for social mobilizers on adolescent youth reproductive health (AYRH) services in Oredo local government area, put together by Connected Advocacy with technical support from The Challenge Initiative (TCI), recently in Benin. He said the role of the social mobilizers is to help adolescents and youths understand how their body works, equipping them with information and provision of services to make informed decisions as they transit to adulthood. "It is also to help them make responsible life choices and healthy de...

Exclusive Interview with CEO, MobiHealth By   AgroNigeria  - December 27, 2019 Dr. Funmi Adewara, a Cambridge University trained bioscience entrepreneur speaks with AgroNigeria on the consequence of health and safety for farmstead productivity. Please introduce yourself and tell us what MobiHealth is about My name is Dr Funmi Adewara, I am a UK based Physician of Nigerian heritage and a Cambridge University trained bioscience entrepreneur. I am the founder and CEO of Mobihealth International. Mobihealth is a Telemedicine provider registered in the UK and Nigeria, the first of its kind, fully integrated telehealth platform in Africa. We are a revolutionary telemedicine platform on a mission to provide people in Africa access to quality medical care at low cost leveraging technology. Our intervention will improve the time to diagnosis and treatment, reduce hospital congestion by more than 60%, reduce the cost of treatment significantly and...

NPFL,NNL; Referees under watch, says NRA Otunba Tade Azeez, NRA President The Nigeria Referees Association, NRA, has unearthed a heartwarming information that would rekindle confidence in the minds of stakeholders of Nigeria Football. The revelation that would elicit excitement is the close watch of referees handling both divisions of the Nigerian leagues  by the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF and the NRA, which the President of the NRA, Otunba Tade Azeez said is meant to ensure perfection on the field of play. Giving further insight, the NRA President opined that the involvement of Referee Assessors in the NNL and NPFL is part of the strategic modules to know what match officials do at centres. He therefore stated that all reports from the Assessors are veritable tools for the growth and development of referees as well as to ascertain how the referees manage the game. Otunba Tade Azeez while wishing all members best of the Yuletide season prayed for journey mercies...

Breaking: Edo people weep as they watch Ekiosa market gutted away by fire -----In four months, four markets engulfed with fire in Benin City Barely a week fire gutted popular Oliha market, another fire outbreak was this afternoon recorded at the popular Ekiosa Market, Benin City, Edo State capital, destroying property worth millions of naira. However, no life was lost at the the time of filing this report. The fire which started at about 12.noon was said to have broke out at the section where animals are sold. An eyewitness, Osas Ugiagbe, told journalists that the fire started when power was restored in the market. “ I was at gate of the market when I heard a noise from the place where they sell goats and chickens. Then we saw balls of fire coming out. We called the Fire Service, but they didn’t respond and some people said, they don’t have water in thier vehicles” , he said. Popular Ekiosa market in Benin City on fire on Sunday afternoon Another eyewi...

Federated Chapel of Edo NUJ hold by-election Federated Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Edo State Chapter, has conducted a by-election for the positions of Financial Secretary and Assistant Secretary. The election was held at the conference Hall of Edo NUJ. At the end of the election, Pst. Dr. Isaac Eranga of the Nigerian Observer Newspaper emerged Assistant Secretary, while Mr. Nosa Uwadia of KU Fm emerged the Financial Secretary. Both candidates were returned unopposed after a majority vote of acceptance by members of the chapel. Speaking after the election, the Chairman of the chapel, Comrade Moses Uyi Osaretin urged the newly elected officials to be productive in their sphere of operation and act according to their area of jurisdiction. "Now that the vacant positions of the Exco has been filled, the chapel is now ready to embark on programs that will enhance the professional growth of members. "I have no doubt that the presence of the newly e...

NNL wk 5: Buoyant Insurance FC host Wounded Stores Tomorrow By Kehinde Osagiede Bendel Insurance FC will be playing host to wounded Stationery Stores of Lagos tomorrow in the week 5 game of the Nigeria National League (NNL) at the University of Benin Sports Complex. Both sides are traditional clubs that are no strangers to each other,but are meeting in a competitive league game after a long while. They recently played in a preseason friendly with the Benin Arsenal winning 2-1 at the Agege stadium in Lagos. Insurance will be going into the week 5 game with the Lagosians with confidence, revelling in their 2-2 away draw at Joy Cometh in week 4 game played last week Thursday in Lagos. The Benin Arsenal are second on the Group B2 table with seven points from four games after two wins,one draw and a loss to follow table toppers,Crown FC (9 points)who defeated the Stores 2-1 away from home last week. The 2-1 loss to Crown FC last week has compounded the  woes of Stores who ...

Group takes talent hunt to Nigeria Correctional Service inmates By Isaac Eranga Benin City: A one-day edutainment therapy programme has been held for inmates of Nigeria Correctional Service, Benin Custodian Center, Sapele Road, Benin City.  The programme which was tagged 'Talent Discovery Among Inmates', was put together by Securing the Creative Gold mine in Youths Initiative and Courageous World Foundation. Declaring the programme open, Head of the custodian center, DCC Dr. Andrew Egbobowaye encouraged inmates to freely display their talents and thanked the groups for coming. Speaking, the Executive Director of Securing the Creative Gold mine in Youths Initiative, Mr. Edwin Asibor said they decided to organise the programme in order to harvest talents that will make the students more productive. "We are into youth development; that is our thematic area. We decided to collaborate with Courageous World Foundation to bring out the talents in the ...