For millions of residents in Lagos, the absence of water provided by the government is how they've lived most of their lives. The lagos state government however says it is working to provide water for the people, but after millions of dollars in investment, the stories of contaminated or epileptic and even in some cases total absense of water supply is the still the case.

For News Extra today, Radio Now's Chika Agu looks at the impact of the absence of clean sustainable water on public health in Lagos state.

Original broadcast date: Jul 12 2021

The assassination of President Jovenel Moise in his home in Port-au-prince on the 7th of July sent shockwaves across the world, with many wondering how a sitting President could be killed in his own home in such a brutal manner. Reports say some gun-wielding commandos shot him 16 times. He was 53. His wife, Martine Moise who was shot too is receiving treatment at a hospital in Florida, USA. So far, 21 persons have been arrested in connection with the killing including someone identified as a key suspect. However, Haitians wonder what the future holds for them as they transition into another government.

What do you do when the country you call home is in chaos, riddled with news of terrorism, kidnapping, corruption, election fraud, and everything that makes a country, what a country shouldn’t be?

The Ripples Center for Data and Investigative journalism thinks the answer is to have a frank and robust conversation about the ills bedevilling the country.

Radio Now’s Chika Agu brings us a report

Right now, thousands of families are going through the pain of uncertainty for their missing loved ones and are unable to grieve. Several people are taken from their homes, forcefully torn apart from their family and never seen or heard from again.

More than 44,000 people across Africa are registered as missing with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), an independent, neutral organization ensuring humanitarian protection and assistance for victims of war and armed violence.

Recycling is practised in many developed countries but it is yet to gain traction in this part of the world.

Recycling is believed to result in a more competitive economy and a cleaner environment and can contribute to more sustainable development.

Look around your environment and count how many products are made of plastic around you. Ask yourself where they all end up when you no longer have a need for them and now multiply by the number of persons in your household, office, and neighbourhood, and what you have is a lot of plastic, too much plastic in fact.

Scavenging activities can reduce emissions of greenhouse gases by recycling inorganic and organic materials.

For news extra today, RadioNow’s Chika Agu examines the culture of recycling in Nigeria and some of the people behind it.

The Nigerian Alumni of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine recently brought together experts in the private health sector in a symposium to speak on the Nigerian healthcare system vis-à-vis financing health care, the challenges and opportunities.

Radio Now’s Bunmi Yekini attended the webinar and here is her report

The fighting in Afghanistan is nothing like Afghans have seen in the past 20 years. The Taliban have made their way to the capital- Kabul, capturing cities on their way, forcing president Ashraf Ghani to run away. The united states have evacuated all diplomats from their embassy while deploying a thousand troops to help with the evacuation.

The Taliban’s quick takeover comes as the united states insist on leaving the middle eastern country after 20 years of fighting led to the deaths of thousands of soldiers and the loss of billions of dollars without any success in bringing democracy to the people.

Even as the global economy is recovering from the effect of the pandemic, Nigeria, like many other developing countries, has not had an easy ride.

In a bid to protect the export business from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, safeguard jobs and de-risk the economy from shocks like COVID, The Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Niyi Adebayo on Thursday, January 14, 2021, inaugurated an 11-Man Steering Committee for the implementation of the Export Expansion Facility Programme (EEFP) under the National Economic Sustainability Plan.

The N50 billion Export Expansion Facility Programme (EEFP) will boost Nigeria’s non-oil exports to West Africa, building on the ECOWAS Trade Promotion Organisations network.

Tunisian President Kais Saied has sacked the government and frozen the parliament in one of the Country's biggest political crises since the 2011 revolution that lead to the current democracy.

After years of economic and political instability, the Covid-19 pandemic brought the small North African country to its knees even as its foreign debt reached the symbolic 100 billion dinar (about 30 billion euros), which is about 100% of the gross domestic product.

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