Valentine Benjamin

Six hundred schools have decided to close as the government struggles to deal with the crisis.

President Buhari promised to abolish the controversial police unit SARS on Monday, but activists say they wan…

And disinformation is spreading fast.

Daleela AI seeks to empower Arabic women with access to information about sexual and reproductive health.

minoHealth AI Labs seeks to streamline diagnostic imaging to accelerate health-care treatment and improve hea…

An aunt's death led Kemisola Bolarinwa to develop a wearable device that can pick up Nigeria's most common ca…

Mothers' breast milk can make the difference between life and death for babies around the world. But getting …

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With more than 120 million internet users in Nigeria, the country's anti-corruption agency, the Economic and …

On the afternoon of Valentine's Day, gunmen believed to be bandits abducted about 50 bus passengers travellin…

Send your thoughts to Letters to the Editor. Learn more St. Louis Sr. Agnes Adeluyi remembered June 5 was a p…

The region has made considerable progress in combating the disease, but complications linked to COVID-19 coul…

On a quiet, breezy morning, Sr. Dorothy Okoli stood amid schoolchildren ages 6-12 in a classroom, teaching th…

Send your thoughts to Letters to the Editor. Learn more On a hot afternoon in September 2014, Imaobong Effion…

On a sunny afternoon, the Rev. Gideon Oyabugbe, a minister at a local Baptist church, walked into St. Vincent…

Three years after taking in 2-year-old Inimffon Uwamobong and her younger brother, Sr. Matylda Iyang finally …

After three years of visiting clinics and traditional healers across Nonwa Tai, in the southern corner of Nig…

Fatima Atewe, a single mother, knew it would be hard work, but she was excited to start a new job loading bri…

When Junaid Barakat's waters broke just after midnight, instead of heading to a hospital she sought assistanc…

78,800 people died of cancer last year in the African nation which has one of the highest global rates of dea…

In a country with low awareness of mental health issues, one man is using art to help patients recover.

South Africa's Mors Design, a local, sustainable small business in Cape Town, is recycling discarded inner ty…

Send your thoughts to Letters to the Editor. Learn more When Sr. Assumpta Ndidiamaka Okoli was growing up in …