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Top 5 Stories Of The Day | NLC Suspends Telecoms Tariff Hike Protest after Meeting with FG
February 4, 2025
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Top 5 Stories Of The Day | NLC Suspends Telecoms Tariff Hike Protest after Meeting with FG

Across Nigeria’s 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory, these are the five top Nigerian news stories you shouldn’t miss. NLC suspends telecoms tariff hike protest after meeting with FG   The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has decided to temporarily suspend its nationwide protest against the 50% hike in telecoms tariff after meeting with the federal... Read More
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December 1, 2020
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#WorldAIDSDay2020: Nigerians share their experiences about living with HIV and fighting stigma

There are 1.9 million Nigerians living with HIV, according to a 2019 survey by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS). While this is a worrying figure, Nigeria has obliterated nearly all spaces in discussing HIV stigma which has showed to kill faster than the virus itself. Chalk it up to a culture that... Read More
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October 23, 2017
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Carry out clinical trial on my HIV/AIDS drug | Nigerian professor tells FG

A professor of Veterinary Medicine, Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike, Prof. Maduike Ezeibe has called on the Federal Government to carry out a clinical trial of the drug he invented for the treatment of HIV/AIDS. He called the drug an Aluminum-Magnesium Silicate and made the call in Umuahia on Monday. He said he presented a paper on the... Read More
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June 27, 2017
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[The Sexuality Blog] Donald Trump gives AIDS relief to Nigeria with one hand and takes aid from Africa with the other

With Donald Trump, you simply never know what to expect. We announced here a couple of days, that the United States government recently pledged an impressive 17.5 billion dollars to the Nigerian Action Committee on AIDS (NACA) to help jumpstart HIV prevention and provide treatment for persons already living with the virus. While we expressed... Read More
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June 19, 2017
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“Trump doesn’t care about HIV/AIDS” | 6 people resign from Trump’s HIV/AIDS council

Six members of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS have resigned, on the premise that President Trump doesn’t care about HIV, TheHill reports. In a joint letter published in the Newsweek titled, “Trump doesn’t care about HIV. We’re outta here”, the six members Scott Schoettes, Lucy Bradley-Springer, Gina Brown, Ulysses Burley III, Michelle Ogle and... Read More
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June 17, 2017
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[The Sexuality Blog] Who would have thought? Trump just signed a new HIV/AIDS deal with Nigeria

We have been quite alarmist about Donald Trump on the Sexuality Blog. We have have had good reason to be, considering his policies on female reproductive health, abortions and LGBT rights (we are the sexuality blog after all) but it seems things are finally turning the corner with the Trump administration, especially as it regards... Read More
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February 10, 2017
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FG begins probe into HIV/AIDS cure claims by Nigerian Professor

The Federal Ministry of Health on Friday said it has requested details of the claimed cure for HIV/AIDS by a Professor of the Michael Okpara University of Agriculture Abia State. A professor of Veterinary in the institution, Prof. Maduike Ezeibe had said conducted clinical trials of a substance on HIV positive individuals. Ezeibe said it... Read More
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February 2, 2017
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Health ministry not aware of HIV cure by Nigerian Professor – Adewole

Minister of Health, Prof Isaac Adewole has said he was unaware of any cure of HIV/AIDS being reported by the media. There have been reports of a Professor of Virology at the Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike in Abia State, Maduike Ezeibe who found a cure to HIV/AIDS. Health Minister Adewole, through the Director... Read More
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February 2, 2017
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Nigerian Veterinary professor ‘discovers’ treatment, cure for HIV/AIDS

The Vice Chancellor (VC), Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Abia State, Prof Francis Otunta has said a professor in the institution has discovered a new drug for the treatment and cure of HIV/AIDS. Otunta told newsmen at the university campus on Wednesday that the discovery was made by Prof. Maduike Ezeibe, a researcher in the... Read More
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January 25, 2017
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The Dummies Guide to the difference between condoms and sanitary towels

You must have been hit by the “tissue”, “condom” “pad” and just all round menstrual talk that has been flying around Twitter lately. It must have got you wondering: “why all this grossness everywhere?” Here’s how it happened: So @GbemmyG  was wondering out loud why sanitary towels are not being distributed free the way condoms are:... Read More
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December 1, 2016
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Abigail Anaba: Take your sexuality in your own hands

by Abigail Anaba She came to us very sickly. She had been losing weight rapidly and everyone wondered what exactly was wrong with her. There were speculations. Maybe it was tuberculosis or some unknown disease. She eventually was taken to the hospital. I can still remember how empty it felt when I saw the test... Read More
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February 5, 2015
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5 Boko Haram victims diagnosed with HIV/AIDS

by Panshak Ibrahim Five persons, who are victims of Boko Haram attacks have been diagnosed with HIV/AIDS, in their refuge-place at the Internally Displaced Persons’ camp in Maiduguri, Borno. This was disclosed to journalists in Maiduguri on Wednesday, February 4, by the leader of a non-governmental organisation, the Business and Professional Women, Dr. Ismaila Watila.... Read More
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May 20, 2014
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SHOCKING: ‘How I infected thousands of men with HIV’ – Woman confesses in Lagos (See Photos)

by Akan Ido “I was very angry with every kind of man, anyone that called himself a man… It’s only that I could not manage to hunt and kill them but my desire was to use any weapon to kill men – because one of them killed me. Inside me, I said to myself, ‘I... Read More
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December 29, 2013
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Femi Aribisala: Does God care that we are suffering? (Part 2)

by Femi Aribisala: God took everything about us on himself.  He entered into our pain and our sorrows.  As our physician, Jesus did not merely prescribe a cure for our sicknesses.  He decided to catch our diseases first, the better to understand our aliments: “that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the... Read More
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December 23, 2013
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Opinion: My open letter to Senator David Mark

by Stephen Chukwuma Mr. Senate President, does the term “human rights are universal” mean anything to you and your colleagues at all? While the world is progressing in advancing human rights, we are constantly going several steps backwards because you and your colleagues have become mouth piece for the Lord and have failed to do... Read More
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December 22, 2013
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Femi Aribisala: Does God not care that we are suffering?

by Femi Aribisala Nevertheless, the Lord would not forsake his people.  God had a plan and this plan was in motion from the foundation of the world.  God was not just interested in comforting man.  That would have been too trite and impersonal.  In the person of Jesus Christ, God was first and foremost determined... Read More
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September 20, 2013
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“It all happened so fast”: More porn stars test HIV-positive, complain about careless regulations

  Warning: This article addresses graphic subject matter that may not be appropriate for all readers. With news cameras flashing, adult film performer Cameron Bay told reporters that in her last porn shoot before testing positive for HIV, her partner’s penis was bleeding — and he wasn’t wearing a condom. After stopping momentarily, the cameras... Read More
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August 12, 2013
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Kayode Ogundamisi: #ABSU rape – And we, the mob moved on

by Kayode Ogundamisi While a victim lives with bone crushing injustice thoroughly unaffected by righteous intentions the #hashtag mob has moved to the next sexy hashtag. No closure. No ability to sustain. No strategies. No moral ground to demand anything better from our leaders. No impact on anything of value. We all need deliverance. In... Read More
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August 10, 2013
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“The rape victim is my wife”: The heartbreaking story of the woman in the #ABSURape video

by Chisom Ukaegbu Tragedy struck the sleepy town of Obite, Etche Local Government Area of Rivers State on a Sunday afternoon, a two month old pregnant woman was raped by a gang of four men after being lured into a house by relatives of her husband. The husband, Mr Stanley Sunday (not his real name)... Read More
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July 28, 2013
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Report: Sex slave camp in Lagos where underage girls are recruited into prostitution

by Rachel Ogbu A reporter has gone under cover to expose the lifestyle of underage sex workers in Lagos. Nation newspaper recently reported that at a brothel located close to Sawmill Bus-stop in Gbagada, teenage girls mostly from poor parental backgrounds and broken homes were recruited to deliver sexual services to older men. At the... Read More
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July 6, 2013
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Femi Fani-Kayode: Barack Obama and his utter disdain for Nigeria

by Femi Fani-Kayode His utter disdain and contempt for Nigeria in particular, though cleverly veiled, is interesting and significant. Despite our size, our standing and our relative strength on the African continent he has snubbed us twice on his two visits to Africa… In an attempt to apprehend the 30 year old American whistleblower, Edward Snowden, a plane that was carrying the President of Bolivia, Evo Morales, was diverted to Austria on... Read More
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July 3, 2013
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“Your world suddenly becomes small” – 3 teenagers speak about living with HIV (WATCH)

by Rachel Ogbu Three brave South African teenagers speak to the Voice of America on what its like living with HIV/AIDS and how they handle the stigma they face from their peers. According to reports, SA has the world’s greatest number of people living with HIV/AIDS, and among them are 300,000 children and teenagers. [READ: Grim... Read More
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June 26, 2013
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Japheth Omojuwa: Barack Obama’s American business in Africa (Y! FrontPage)

by Japheth Omojuwa Africa is a land of opportunities. The only sad part of this is that most Africans are not aware of this reality. President Barack Obama is not in Africa because of what the United States can give to Africa, he is in Africa because of what the United States can get from... Read More
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June 22, 2013
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Temie Giwa: The doctor ordered primary health care (Y! FrontPage)

by Temie Giwa Primary health care in Nigeria is truly horrific… Clinic filled with overworked and underpaid staff members, who are so prone to mistakes that if Nigerians were remotely litigious, lawyers would suddenly become overnight celebrities and billionaires. The International Finance Corporation claims that $4.5 billion investment is needed to repair Nigeria’s health system... Read More
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May 6, 2013
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Worse than AIDS: Scientists discover STD more infectious than HIV

Health officials are warning that two cases of a so-called ‘sex superbug’ have been confirmed in Hawaii. Hawaii News Now reports that the ‘sex superbug’ is a resistant strain of gonorrhea. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has asked Congress for $50 million to find a new antibiotic to treat the drug-resistant strain of... Read More
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May 1, 2013
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9,660 Lagos residents tested HIV positive within one year – Lagos health commissioner

by Isi Esene The Lagos government on Tuesday disclosed that 9,660 people living in the state tested positive to HIV in the last one year. The commissioner for Health, Dr. Jide Idris disclosed this while briefing newsmen on the activities of his ministry to commemorate the sixth year of Governor Babatunde Fashola’s administration. He said his... Read More
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