By Sunday Oyinloye His frail physique on spindly legs readily stood him out. Potbellied and with thin frame, his dark leathery skin was riddled with that tinge of faded white indicative of the onset of rashes. Farouk and his ragtag band of street urchins daily make the rounds of Sabo, the seedy settler community in […]Read More

By Sunday Oyinloye In March this year, two Nigerian young men produced a video that lasted just 29 seconds where one acted as “Ebola” and the other as “Corona”.  “Ebola” called “Corona” to find out where he was and “Corona” said he was in Nigeria. Shocked by his location, “Ebola” told “Corona” that he was […]Read More

By Sunday Oyinloye These are really not the best of times for the world as most economies are crumbling due to the negative impact of COVID-19 pandemic which literally shut the world for months, and even now that the lockdown that greeted the pandemic is being eased in many countries including Nigeria, the future looks […]Read More

By Sunday Oyinloye International Society of Media in Public Health (ISMPH) and CHESTRAD Global will hold a webinar on the 12th of August, 2020 that would further help to sharpen the skills of journalists in the reportage of covid-19 pandemic and also provide accurate information that could also help reduce the spread of the virus. […]Read More

 By Sunday Oyinloye  Barely a month after her appointment into the Transition Independent Monitoring Board (TIMB) of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), Dr.Lola Dare of Chestrad Global has bagged another appointment into the Board of the RSM Partnership to End Malaria effective from 1st July, 2020. In a letter of appointment signed by the […]Read More

By Sunday Oyinloye National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) has congratulated   Dr.Lola Dare of Chestrad International on her appointment into the Transition Independent Monitoring Board (TIMB) of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) In a congratulatory letter signed by the Executive Director/CEO of NPHCDA, Dr. Faisal Shuaib, the Agency said the news of Dr […]Read More

International award winning motivational speaker and relationship coach, Seun Obajolu has been empowering women and families for some years. She is the Founder/CEO of  Inspyred Hope, a nonprofit organization registered in United States and Nigeria that empowers  women and families through outreach programs, advocacy and literacy, and support groups. Seun  is also a Social Media […]Read More

One of the women who have dedicated their lives to environmental protection in Africa is Zambia- born Mailes Muke Zulu, founder of Save the Environment and People Agency (SEPA), a Non-Governmental Organization that promotes sustainable livelihoods, environmental protection and human rights. In 2004, Mailes worked with rural communities in Zambezi to establish two community schools […]Read More

By Sunday Oyinloye Following announcement by the government of Ghana which makes the wearing of face masks compulsory in public places from April 20, 2020, an NGO, Rebekah Awuah Foundation has joined hands with the government in the fight against the spread of coronavirus by providing free face masks to  some street food vendors in […]Read More

By Sunday Oyinloye Barely a month after the opposition in Zimbabwe pledged to work with the government to fight COVID-19 pandemic, the MDC Alliance has expressed what it called “extreme concerned” about the lockdown restrictions in the country alleging that “it is clearly working against the interests of the poor and marginalised people of Zimbabwe”. […]Read More