You are here

Category: Lifestyle

Development Health Advice 

One billion people have preventable eye conditions, increasingly linked to lifestyle choices: UN health agency

Global Author
While welcoming recent successes in eliminating common conditions such as trachoma in eight countries, the World Health Organization (WHO) highlighted evidence indicating that eye problems are increasingly linked to lifestyle choices, including screen time. Youngsters are among those at risk, WHO’s Dr Alarcos Cieza told journalists in Geneva: “In children, one of the factors that may influence the increased number… Read More
Human Rights 

‘Dangerous nationalism’ seriously threatens efforts to tackle statelessness: UNHCR chief

Village Reporter
Speaking at a meeting in Geneva aiming to convince more countries to assist the many millions of people around the world who live in nationless limbo, Mr. Grandi warned that much more action was needed, five years since UNHCR launched its #IBelong campaign to end statelessness. “The progress is far from assured: damaging forms of nationalism and the manipulation of… Read More
Entertainment Lifestyle 

We get our victims on social media — Forex trader, musician turned robbers

Village Reporter
Two suspected robbers, who lured a computer dealer to a desolate location and dispossessed him of three Apple laptops valued at N1.5 million at gunpoint have been arrested by the operatives of the Lagos State Rapid Response Squad.The suspects, Victor Remi (27), a forex trader, and Ekeh Maxwell, 23, a musician, were arrested on Monday, weeks after their heist.The suspects,… Read More
Entertainment Lifestyle 

Nigerian Newspaper Headlines Today: 5th October, 2019

Village Reporter
Nigerian Newspaper Headlines 2023 Presidency: Oshiomhole Reacts To Campaign Posters Of Himself, Tinubu, El-Rufai Adams Oshiomhole, National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has said that the party is more concerned with delivering good governance to Nigerians, not the 2023 elections. The APC national chairman said this on Thursday in Abuja, at a Reconciliation Meeting with stakeholders and aggrieved governorship… Read More
Entertainment Lifestyle 

Singer Adekunle Gold Challenges Fans Calling Him ‘Nigeria’s R. Kelly’

Village Reporter
Adekunle Gold Nigerian RnB Singer Adekunle Gold has challenged the narrative building up on social media that he is Nigeria’s R. Kelly. The singer did not appreciate being likened to American RnB singer R.Kelly and he responded when a follower told him he looks like the American singer. READ ALSO – Burna Boy, Teni, Adekunle Gold Leads In 2019 Headies The singer… Read More
Development Health Advice 

Ground-breaking clean air protocol to guard human health and the planet, enters into force

Global Author
With 18 countries and the European Union now having ratified the amended treaty, from a total of 51 who have signed, including many of the countries which are part of the UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), the official entry into force marks an important step to curb pollutants closely-linked to climate change, ecosystem degeneration, and potentially life-threatening human health.   The Gothenburg Protocol, established back in 1999, sets forth legally-binding emissions reduction commitments for 2020 and beyond, for major… Read More
Human Rights 

UN expresses concern following wave of street protests in Iraq and elsewhere

Village Reporter
UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Friday called for dialogue between the Government and the demonstrators, and also expressed sadness over the loss of life. The UN human rights office, OHCHR, said reports indicate that up to 30 people have been killed in demonstrations across the country, though this number has not been verified. Hundreds more were reportedly injured, including members of the security… Read More
Development Health Advice 

FIFA and UN kick off healthy living campaign, to harness global game’s ‘huge potential’

Global Author
Major organizations from the world of sport are joining an increasing number of private sector businesses in the race to beat global warming. At the United Nations’ COP24 conference in Poland on Wednesday, 17 major players representing sporting bodies, athletes and fans, added their names to the collective scoreboard, with the launch of the Sports Climate Action Framework. Read More
Social media & sharing icons powered by UltimatelySocial