May 5, 2020

By Philip Obaji Jr. As 16-year-old Miriam* stepped out of her tent to fetch water near the Madinatu Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp in Nigeria’s northeastern Borno state in January last year, a middle-aged woman she knew as “Aunty Kiki” approached her. She asked Miriam if she was interested in moving to the city of […]

The Federal Government on Monday announced that it would soon commence the disinfection and decontamination of schools across the country. Minister of Environment, Muhammad Mahmood, disclosed this at the Presidential Task Force briefing on COVID-19 in Abuja. He said the Federal Ministry of Environment would get the data of schools nationwide from the Federal Ministry