Cotonou Degree: Don’t be sad, they just helping us

By; Professor Abdulmalek Amoka. I was reflecting on this Cotonou 6-week to 1-year degree program and I began to wonder why we are making so much noise about it. The good thing about the degree is that you need not travel there or write any examination. You just register and it will be couriered to you. Nigerians said degrees are useless and that “who e help”. They said we should go and learn welding and carpentry instead of going for a degree (skills rather than a degree). Now, we are…

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Expert calls for improved funding, training to help nurses manage diabetes

Dr Ramatu Shuaibu, Consultant Endocrinologist, National Hospital, Abuja (NHA) has called for improved funding and training of nurses to help in the management of diabetes and reduce death rates caused by the condition. She made the call in an interview in Abuja on Saturday on the occasion of the World Diabetes Day (WDD), which has The Nurse and Diabetes as the 2020 theme. Annually celebrated on November 14 to raise global awareness and promote the importance of taking coordinated actions to confront diabetes as a critical global health issue, WDD…

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