Although over 6,186 children are born with Cleft Lip and Palate in Nigeria every year, amounting to 16 children per day in the country, there appears to be little attention beamed on the public health challenge despite being correctable. Sunday Ehigiator writes
Every human is fearfully and wonderfully made, more so are children. The joy of having a child is comparable to nothing ever made or acquired.
But then, how quickly this joy runs out when a child is born with Cleft Lip/Palate (CLP) is a source of concern for stakeholders. Their concern is understandable given that the condition can be corrected so the children can live a hearty life devoid of bullying and discrimination, which is often the lot of those with Cleft Lip, with most of them wallowing in low self esteem.
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Published 31 May 2021
Joe Okei-Odumakin, widow of the late human rights activist, Yinka Odumakin, on Monday, took a break from her self-imposed three-month mourning period to condemn the reported shooting of former presidential candidate and publisher of online news medium, SaharaReporters, Omoyele Sowore, who was injured by a tear gas canister fired by a police operative in Abuja.
Sowore, who is the convener of the #RevolutionNow and #BuhariMustGo campaigns, was preparing to hold a rally with some associates when the incident happened at the Unity Fountain in Abuja, on Monday.
Reacting in a statement titled, ‘Are we at war? Mourning Joe Okei Odumakin asks FG’, Okei-Odumakin, who is also an activist and the President of Centre for Change, urged the Federal Government not to further heat up the polity by abusing the fundamental human rights of citizens.
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Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers:
1. The Senate President, Ahmed Lawan, yesterday, alleged that the elites in Nigeria were behind the plot to divide the country. The lawmaker spoke to journalists on Saturday in his home town, Gashua, Yobe State.
2. President Muhammadu Buhari, on Saturday, condemned the Monday night attack on three communities in Íshíelu Local Government Area of Ebonyi State. In a statement by his spokesman, Garba Shehu, Buhari directed law enforcement agencies to fish out the attackers and make them face justice.
3. Spokesman of Afenifere, a Pan-Yoruba sociocultural group, Yinka Odumakin died in the early hours of Saturday at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital. He was said to have died in an isolation centre after testing positive for coronavirus.