What is Nigeria’s cryptic pregnancy scam? BBC Africa Eye has investigated a disturbing fertility scam in Anambra State, Nigeria where desperate women are shelling hundreds of dollars for this treatment that gives desperate women false pregnancies. What constitutes this “cryptic” pregnancy? Women who come to these clinics are warned not to visit doctors or hospitals […]
By Global Issues WASHINGTON DC, Nov 25 (IPS) – In Nigeria, over 80,000 women die each year from pregnancy and childbirth complications. Recently, Nigeria’s coordinating minister of health and social welfare, Muhammad Pate, announced the Maternal Mortality Reduction Initiative. It aims to provide free cesarean section (CS) and essential maternal care to poor women nationwide, […]
Nigeria faces its worst cost-of-living crisis in a generation after the government ended costly subsidies that made petrol affordable for many in Africa’s most populous country Source: ABC News Category: International