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How herbalists make brisk business with local concoctions

They normally advertise their medicine by listing the different kind of ailments it can cure; sometimes they use microphones to advertise the commodit

Inside ‘Madina’: Assembly Ground for Tijjaniyas

Before him, two other persons in Maiduguri, Borno state, said the same thing when I told them I was going to spend some time in Dakar as part of my 20

Midwifing Millennium Dev Goals 4, 5

The national tragedy The Executive Director of NPHCDA, Dr Muhammad Ali Pate has described maternal and newborn deaths in Nigeria as national tragedy,

Why Yobe communities are against Kafin Zaki Dam

When the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) committee set up by the federal government visited Gaidam in Damaturu, it was clear that Yobe State was

Do dams help – or damn – Mother Nature?

But dams affect many ecological aspects of a river. Rivers depend on the constant disturbance of a certain tolerance. Dams slow the river and this dis