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NFM Digest: Top Stories of the Week
This week’s headlines cover major developments in humanitarian appeals, global leadership appointments, women’s empowerment, and fact-checking of viral misinformation. Here are the top stories of the week, from renewed calls by the families of the…
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Lagos State Sentences Pastor Chris Douglas to Life Imprisonment for Raping Minor
Summary: General Overseer of Peculiar Generation Assembly Church, Chris Douglas, has been convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for raping the 18-year-old daughter of his church member. Chris Douglas, the 63-year-old General Overseer of Peculiar…
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Nigeria’s Maternal Mortality: Doctor Dies After Delivering Triplets in Bayelsa
A medical doctor, Dr Ere Siana Sintei Ogbachi, has died following complications shortly after delivering a set of triplets at the Niger Delta University Teaching Hospital (NDUTH), Okolobiri, in Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa…
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“Conversations Around Women’s Reproductive Health are Surrounded by Silence” — Health Communicator Fungai Mutimodyo
Summary: A science and health communicator, journalism lecturer, and media practitioner based in Zimbabwe speaks on reproductive health misinformation, media literacy, and building feminist movements rooted in access to information and collective action. Fungai Mutimodyo…
