BENUE BOOSTS CHILD PROTECTION WITH GRADUATION OF 60 UNICEF-BACKED SOCIAL WORKERS. (PHOTOS).

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 BENUE BOOSTS CHILD PROTECTION WITH GRADUATION OF 60 UNICEF-BACKED SOCIAL WORKERS  Benue State has taken a major step toward strengthening child protection and social welfare services with the graduation of 60 Auxiliary Social Workers (ASWs) trained to serve vulnerable children and families at the grassroots. The graduation ceremony, held on Wednesday, marked the successful completion of a programme jointly supported by the Benue State Government, the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF), the Bureau of Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, and the Benue State Bureau for International Cooperation and Development (BICD). Speaking at the event themed “Building Community Resilience Through Professional Auxiliary Social Work,” the Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Welfare, Hon. Mrs. Theresa Apochi-Ikwue, described the initiative as a strategic response to gaps in child protection services across the state. She said the newly trained ASWs would...

TWO MORE SUSPECTED EBOLA VICTIMS DISCOVERED IN LAGOS YESTERDAY.

                    Yesterday tuesday around 6pm on Lagos Island,a middle aged woman identified as Ada,slumped at CMS bus/stop.When the woman collapsed on the road,people started running away from her thinking that she was a victim of Ebola Virus.Ada was trekking along the road on Odulami street when she suddenly collapsed on the major road.People refused to go near her to render assistance untill people who knew her,including some newspaper vendors,arrived the scene to identify the woman as Ada.They dispelled the insinuations that she was a victim of Ebola virus.Following the information,sympathizers started buying pour water on her body.Shr didn't regain consciousness but was seen breathing fainting on the ground.The other incident yesterday was a man that was brought into Orile-Agege General Hospital tuesday morning,he was bleeding all over his body and health workers such as nurses,doctors and other patients in the hospital fled from him.It was gathered that the patient had come to the hospital last week complaining of fever but that he later re-appeared on tuesday with blood coming out from his body.The Orile Agege General Hospital informed the Ifako Ijaiye Genera Hospital about the patient,saying they did not have the equipment to handle the case.The Ifako Ijaiye General Hospital declined and called the state ministry of Health officials who ordered that nobody should touch the patient as government was coming to pick  him up.                              

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