By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Correspondent ACROSS Nigeria, communities, especially in the northern part of the country, faced devastating insecurity in 2025, as violent crimes, banditry, and insurgent attacks intensified, displacing thousands and claiming countless lives. In fact, local authorities struggled to contain the violence, rai...
By Joke Kujenya FoOR A child under five in West Africa, the chance of testing positive for malaria depends heavily on where they sleep at night. New evidence from laboratory-confirmed surveys shows that malaria risk is sharply uneven across borders, regions and even neighbouring communities, leaving some children far more exposed than others ...
By Joke Kujenya ACROSS CONTINENTS and communities, the scale of violence faced by women and girls was laid bare during a SHE and Rights (S&R) session convened amid the 16 Days of Activism against gender-based violence and held to mark International Human Rights Day and Universal Health Coverage Day (IHRDUHCD). The gathering brought togeth...
By Joke Kujenya THE FUTURE of health demands responsible Artificial Intelligence according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Sweeping across hospital corridors and rural clinics alike, the march of artificial intelligence is already reshaping the way patients are diagnosed, medicines are discovered, and epidemics are tracked, the world h...
By Joke Kujenya SCIENTISTS ANNOUNCED they have disclosed that critical patterns hidden in the bloodstream are helping them decode how malaria progresses, unlocking a path to faster, life-saving treatments for severe cases. Researchers at Karolinska Institute said they have identified more than 250 proteins that undergo dramatic changes durin...
By Joke Kujenya A STARK warning from the World Health Organization (WHO) has reignited calls for urgent global action as rising tobacco industry interference stalls momentum in public health efforts. The new Global Tobacco Epidemic 2025 report, launched at the World Conference on Tobacco Control in Dublin, presents a mixed picture, documentin...
By Joke Kujenya SILENT AND often swift, drowning strikes without warning, leaving behind a trail of anguish and irreversible loss. Each year, around 300,000 people die from drowning globally, with low and middle-income countries like Nigeria bearing the heaviest toll. This tragedy, says a December 13, 2024, report by the World Health Organisa...
DAYS AFTER devastating floods swept through Mokwa, a town in Niger State, Nigeria, displacing dozens of families, wrecking homes, leaving thousands missing and killing hundreds, many victims remain without shelter despite the establishment of temporary displaced camps in two local schools. Our West and East Africa Correspondent, ADEDOKUN THEOP...
By Joke Kujenya CONTAMINATED MEALS are making 600 million people ill each year, costing developing countries over US$110 billion annually in medical bills and lost productivity, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has revealed. Specifically, the 2025 World Food Safety Day, observed on 7 June, is beaming a spotlight on the scientific strategie...
By Joke Kujenya GLOBAL LIFE expectancy plunged by 1.8 years between 2019 and 2021—wiping out a decade of progress, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO)’s newly released World Health Statistics (WHS) 2025 report. The sharp drop, the steepest in recent history, reflects the far-reaching toll of the year 2020 COVID-19 pandemic on lon...
