While the country complies with international standards regulating the transparency of oil revenues the people are yet to see the benefits thereof. Read more »

Hospitals across the continent are adopting Kangaroo Mother Care to help curb high mortality rates for preterm infants. The technique emphasizes skin-to-skin contact between ... Read more »

Imo State police have raided a home allegedly being used to force teenage girls to have babies that were then offered for sale for trafficking. Read more »

More than one million babies die the day they are born and the countries with the highest rates of these deaths are in Africa, according to Save the Children's annual report on the ... Read more »

Nearly half of all pregnancies are unintended despite the country's progress in the use of contraceptives over the last decade, according to a report by the Rwanda School of Public ... Read more »

Most of the methods to save the life of a newborn - like antiseptic for the umbilical cord - are simple, but three million babies die a year. The first Global Newborn Health ... Read more »

More than one Million condoms have been impounded by the country's Food and Drugs Authority after they were found to contain holes and burst easily. Read more »

Experts around the continent have gathered to address the preventable deaths of newborns, which accounts for almost half of all deaths among children under five. Read more »

The country's first and only fertility clinic has recorded its first successful birth through in vitro fertilisation, a process which makes it possible for couples faced with ... Read more »

The Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps has arrested one woman for allegedly selling babies, after the rescue of 32 pregnant teenagers from a maternity home where they were ... Read more »