Health Officer Vaccinates a child against Cholera. By Ita Williams, Calabar Cholera, a centuries-old disease that continues to plague vulnerable communities, remains a major global and national public health concern, experts have warned. They said this during a media roundtable with the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Cross River State Council, organised by a Non-Governmental…
By Asuquo Cletus CALABAR (CONVERSEER) – As part of the effort in celebrating the 2025 World Humanitarian Day, the Chairman of the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ), Cross River State Council, Archibong Bassey, has launched a humanitarian initiative known as PADBANK. The initiative is aimed at tackling period poverty as well as restoring dignity to…
By Frank Ulom CALABAR (CONVERSEER) – PADBANK Mobile Outreach has joined the global community to mark World Humanitarian Day 2025 with the launch of its Padbank Community Project in Adiabo Community, Odukpani Local Government Area of Cross River State. According to the project coordinator, Archibong Bassey, the initiative is designed to address menstrual health and…
By Frank Ulom CALABAR (CONVERSEER) – The National Association of Nigerian Nurses and Midwives (NANNM) has clarified that the recent alleged child theft incident in Cross River State was not carried out by nurses as widely reported, but by Community Health Extension Workers (CHEWs). According to a disclaimer issued by NANNM, the Cross River State…
BERLIN (DPA, CONVERSEER) – A new online database aims to document the fates of victims subjected to forced medical experiments during Germany’s Nazi era. The collection, which contains thousands of profiles of confirmed and suspected victims, was jointly launched on Monday by the German National Academy of Sciences and the Max Planck Society, a research…
One in four Nigerian men fail DNA paternity tests – Report By Nsan Neji LAGOS (CONVERSEER) – A new report by Smart DNA, Nigeria’s leading DNA testing centre, has revealed that one in every four men tested between July 2024 and June 2025 was not the biological father of the child in question. The 2025…
