Sunday I felt so exited getting out of bed this morning because my aunty was dedicating her first son in the church. After the religious activities, we moved to their posh apartment at Ajah for a swooping and watering dinner ...
Monthly Archives: December 2009
The 16th Annual Teenage Festival of Life (TFL 2009)
“Young people and The Millennium Development Goals: Creating Opportunities for involvement”. “What could be attracting this horde of young people on a Saturday?” it was quite usual. Most surprising, was the realization that they were secondary school students. Excellent was ...
LSACA Commemorates World AIDS Day
IT WAS POMP AND COLOUR AT THE Adeyemi-Bero Auditorium, Alausa, Ikeja, venue of the world AIDS Day commemoration organized by The Lagos State AIDS Control Agency (LSACA) on December 1, 2009. The event witnessed a large turnout of participants. Representatives ...
LEAP Africa Rewards Excellence
The Shell Hall, MUSON Centre, Lagos was filled to capacity on Thursday, November 19, 2009 as youth and adults alike trooped in to witness the 6th Annual Nigeria Youth Leadership Awards` organized by LEAP AFRICA. The event aimed at rewarding ...
Peer Educators and Healthcare Providers Trained in Ogun and Akwa Ibom States
Training on peer Education/Life Skills as well as Youth Friendly Health Service Provision and Peer Education Programing were organized in November 2009. The overall goal of the project was to contribute to the reduction in the spread and mitigation of ...
Covenant University Students Visit AHI
AHI on November 18, 2009 played host to a team from the Covenant University, Ota, Ogun State. The team which was made up of five Lecturers and 44 students at both 200 and 300 levels of the Demographics and social ...
Public Health Nurses Trained
A-5 days training for 23 Public Health nurses from the school of public Health, Ikoyi, Lagos was conducted by Action Health Incorporated (AHI) in October, 2009. The training which took place at AHI youth friendly center focused on building their ...
Poems – December 2009
Inhalation to Death by Mervis Emelife (18 years old-Lagos) People say I was well brought up That my parents showed me a good path to tread Up until my teenage years, obedience was my second name And people were glad ...
Young People and Smoking
“Tobacco use in Africa is more than a health problem. It’s a development problem too. Tobacco breeds poverty, killing people in their most productive years. It consumes family and health-care budget. Also, money spent on tobacco is money not spent ...
December 2009
Young People and Smoking Vol 17. No. 4 Front Cover Young People and Smoking Inside this Issue Young People and Smoking Poems (page 5) Newsreel (page 7) Public Health Nurses Trained Covenant University Students Visit AHI Peer Educators and Healthcare ...