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As of 2018, “Nigeria [was] the most endemic country in the world for river blindness, accounting for as much as 40% of the global disease burden,” according to Frank Richards, senior advisor to the Carter Center’s River Blindness Elimination Program.
PLATEAU: Rainstrom wrecks school, over 200 staff, students stranded On By Marie-Therese Nanlong, Jos The dearth of learning spaces and other facilities in Government Secondary School, GSS, Wokkos, Pankshin local government area of Plateau State is worsened further as a rainstorm on Saturday destroyed classrooms and staff offices in the school. An alumnus of the school, Amos Bitrus said the school was operating in a Primary School in the community but later moved to its current site in 1996 with community donated infrastructure but there are still facility gaps in the school. Although the off...