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By Elizabeth Carr Bauchi State Commissioner of Women Affairs, Child Development and Social Welfare, Zainab Baban Tanko has commended Governor Bala Mohammed for giving women a new recognition in the social and political spheres of the State. She was speaking at aone day stakeholders consultative meeting on review of the Bauchi State gender policy held […]

By Bashir Hassan Abubakar Every year the Federal and State Government’s Primary Health Care Development Agencies and World bodies like UNICEF, WHO and other International humanitarian organisations  commemorates World Exclusive Breastfeeding Week (WEBW) with lots of awareness creation on the benefits of  breastfeeding newborns exclusively, for the first six months after birth. This practice of

By Bashir Hassan  The ongoing Measles Integrated Campaign is recording an appreciable level of success in Bauchi Metropolis. Our Correspondent, who was part of a select group of Journalists that went round some of the Primary Health Care Centres on  Day Three of the exercise, observed impressive turnout of caregivers who were availing themselves the

By Bashir Hassan Abubakar  The ASHH Foundation initiated Community Peace Mediators (CPMs)  in Bauchi and Ganjuwa LGAs of Bauchi State have conducted their monthly review and feedback meetings. A press statement by ASHH Foundation’s Communication officer, Joseph Sule said, the meeting had documented 10 cases handled by mediators in Kafin Madaki community. The report  from

By Danhassan Abubakar  Young Women and Adolescent Girls of reproductive age in Dass Local Government Area of Bauchi State have expressed their concerns and hopes in seeing that safe and enabling environment is provided for enhanced knowledge on Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights (SRHR) within their peer groups. Their fears and concerns were some of

By Bashir Hassan Abubakar As the world commemorates the 2024 International Day of the Girl, Bauchi State Ministry of Education in collaboration with IKRA Foundation for Women and Youth Development, with support from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) have commemorated the day in Bauchi, where over 200 adolescent girls drawn from 8 selected secondary

By Danhassan Abubakar Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) working in the health sector and other stakeholders have resolved to carry out an all-encompassing advocacy campaign to fastrack the domestication of  policy on sexual and reproductive health rights (SRHR) in the Bauchi State education curricula. This was one of the major outcomes of a One Day seminar

By Bashir Hassan  A Bauchi based Civil Society Organisation (CSO), Journalists for Public Health and Development Initiative (J4PD) has commiserated with victims of the recent flood disaster that devastated Maiduguri metropolis and environs, Borno State, North Eastern Nigeria. The commiseration was contained in a press statement signed and issued by the Knowledge Management and Communication

J4PD  As flood continues to ravage communities in Bauchi State, leading to contaminated sources of drinking waters,  a Bauchi based Civil Society Organisation  (CSO), Journalists for Public Health and Development Initiative (J4PD)  has expressed its concerns over possible outbreak of water borned diseases across the State. A statement issued by the Knowledge Management and Communication

By Bashir Hassan Abubakar United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has partnered a Bauchi based Civil Society Organisation, Journalists for Public Health and Development Initiative (J4PD) to give visibility to the activities of the UNFPA in Bauchi State. This partnership was sealed on Tuesday 13th August, 2024 at a meeting between UNFPA Bauchi State office and