By Sunday Oyinloye As Europe battles second wave of corona virus with anxiety in other parts of the world, a Non-Governmental Organisation in Nigeria, International Society of Media in Public Health (ISMPH) has developed Advocacy Toolkit on COVID-19 and presented…
Malnutrition: Curse of Nigerian children
By Sunday Oyinloye For a Nutritionist, Daniel Ayoade , Nigerian children have no business with hunger or malnutrition because of the abundant natural and human resources as well as arable and fertile lands that dot most parts of the country. …
Stakeholders, health experts want more media and government attention for Nutrition
By Sunday Oyinloye Against the background of the danger malnutrition poses to public health in Nigeria, International Society of Media in Public Health (ISMPH) in collaboration with Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) Advocacy partners – Aisha Buhari Foundation (ABF), Civil Society…
COVI-19: the pandemic that ‘silenced’ Nutrition in Nigeria
By Sunday oyinloye If anyone had predicted by this time of last year that the world would be held to ransom by a virus, no one would have believed, but the unexpected has happened far beyond human imagination. Not only…
Inside the agonising world of Nigeria’s malnourished children
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…
When ISMPH and Chestrad Global punctured COVID-19 infodemic
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”…
Nigerian government exposes children to danger with zero allocation for Nutrition
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…
ISMPH, CHESTRAD Global move to address covid-19 infodemic
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…
Nigerian Epidemiologist, Lola Dare bags another international appointment
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…
‘Lola Dare’s appointment into the Transition Independent Monitoring Board of GPEI good for Nigeria’
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…