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On the Nigeria-Argentina match...read it here. Posted by Ruona

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My Online Journalism course finished two weeks ago...the portfolio of work I came up with in the 10 days the course lasted is.. here

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Latest blog on the lighter side of covering the Naija community on Biccard Street for a class project... here.

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This is a format that hasn't really caught on in Nigeria, but I earnestly hope it will.Specifically, the power of the audio slideshow in telling certain stories is one way to humanize your stories and ensure it strikes a deeper level of consciousness with the audience. Against a drawback of sorts where text can only describe the circumstances from the eyes of the reporter, the audio slideshow

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My Online Journalism class means I must blog daily, and report on an immigrant community in Johannesburg and upload my er..efforts onto a specialised website. Please find so-called efforts on the link HERE.

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*Now 419ners would like any gullible members of the public left to believe that there is an FBI unit in Nigeria, etc...you'd have to be born with a totally empty brain to reply to this gunk. Jeez. At least they have moved from using yahoo email addresses!A REPORT ON YOUR DEALING WITH A FRAUDSTER VIA INTERNETAttn:Honorable Beneficiary I received a report from the FBI here in Nigeria concerning

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Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani is the author of I Do Not Come to You by Chance a debut novel about Nigerian email scams. Winner of the 2010 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book (Africa), this story gives a glimpse of the female we all either KNOW or may even BE, but won't ever admit to being; the PSEUDO-FEMINIST! Read it here.

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Most South African newspapers this morning had ANC youth league president Julius Malema's grovelling apology to President Jacob Zuma and the ANC as headline.Last month he lashed out at BBC journalist Jonah Fisher at a press conference I was present at. He called the visibly embarassed Fisher a "bloody agent" "bastard", and a "racist" as well as saying "rubbish is what you are covering inside

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Just so you understand where I am coming from, I am a journalist, whose father was a journalist, and killed for being a journalist.Father always loudly proclaimed that none of his children would be journalists. Journalists were “poor people whose riches could change the world but not buy them the good things therein.” Yet, Father would diligently go to work daily and come back with stories that

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It's no wonder that South Africa's media organizations continue to pick up the awards for Investigative journalism, especially continent-wide; they invest time...and resources. This weekend the Maill & Guardian Centre for Investigative Journalism was set up to "shield probing journalism from commercial pressures" and because; "In a purely commercial environment, good investigative journalism

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By RUONA AGBROKOI had the most horrible day—to put it as freshmen do—LIKE , EVER, on Tuesday last week and therefore gave in to my inner wimp. I concentrated my efforts on crying my way through Rosebank Mall and all the way back to Wits. Half way through rebuffing the sexual overtures of a middle-aged man, (who claimed he was offering sympathy) a text message came through on my phone. I skimmed

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By Ruona AgbrokoApril 4, 2010 10:19AMBen Leapman* is dressed formally and frequently fiddles with glassware as he talks to South Africa's top journalists and academics at the upscale Rand Club in Johannesburg.Mr. Leapman, Deputy News Editor of the Sunday Telegraph, was one of three journalists who fought a five-year battle to have MPs expenses disclosed under Britain's Freedom of Information

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By Ruona AgbrokoMonday 29, March 2010 No, the inspiration for this piece is not the fact that I have no significant other and have consistently failed in my duty as a child to bring home a “young, Christian boy” to pay my tribal lobola of less than R3 to Mother. This article merely seeks to understand the phenomenon whereby any random gust of cool wind, some well-trimmed grass and open space (or

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RUONA AGBROKO | JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA - Mar 25 2010 17:09 They say the quickest way to know your family history is to run for office in Nigeria. Or have your name forwarded to the Senate as a ministerial nominee, as it turns out. On Wednesday, Nigeria's acting President Goodluck Jonathan revealed a new Cabinet list comprising 33 names, nine of which were former ministers.Within hours,

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WARNING: THIS HYPERLINK LEADS TO A GRAPHIC PICTURE:http://i.imagehost.org/0088/for-jos-main.jpgShe looks like a burnt rubber doll, right? Her cornrows roasted to a crisp, torso rent from limbs, face melded into the smouldering ashes. They say she was not yet six. I refused to believe she wasn’t a doll. I refused to believe those were her intestines sticking out from her side. But the news tells

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Written by Ruona Agbroko Monday, 08 March 2010 10:27 Lesley. Anton. Margaret. Franz....Lesley. Anton. Margaret. Franz. Lesley... I would stand in front of the full-length mirror in my hotel room in Sandton and chant these names repeatedly for days before I resumed classes at Wits. Even my reflection thought I had gone bonkers. Still, months later, I struggle with the strangeness of having to

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Written by Ruona Agbroko Monday, 01 March 2010 08:48 A few weeks into life at Wits and it's common knowledge that freshmen are always the ones who repeatedly apologise before asking for directions to places they are standing right in front of. They are also easily identified by their love for neon colours and all things gaudy, which is okay, once your eyes—and ears—get used to the vast

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By Ruona Agbroko Sunday, 21 February 2010 07:31 I haven’t ever listened to my lecturers entirely. This is why instead of working out complex Chemistry equations for my first degree, I was on the streets, gathering stories. This is also why I took Anton Harber’s advice to “take all you hear from the authorities with a pinch of salt.” Unfortunately, he was the authority, and speaking during

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By Ruona Agbroko Sunday, 14 February 2010 21:08 The only reason I had some recollection of the Wits journalism department’s Justice Project flier was because a sexy looking boy (who I now discover is an unrepentant snob) had one in his hand on orientation day. But all that changed on the afternoon of February 2. Today I know that “a third of the South African prison population is locked up

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By Ruona Agbroko Monday, 08 February 2010 10:21 Well before I knew that passers-by here (in South Africa) often describe five-kilometre walks with the words “it isn’t far...turn at the third robot and walk straight...”, I asked this middle-aged man clutching a big Bible at Ghandi Square which way it was to Wits’ Braamfontein campus. It wasn’t the Bible that made me feel he would know. It

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January 26, 2010 02:00AMNEXT reporter Ruona Agbroko has won the 2010 edition of the FitzGerald Prize for Young African Journalist.A statement by Matthew Tostevin, Editor, Africa at Reuters says the prize qualifies her to undergo “an honours course in Journalism at Wits University in Johannesburg this year before joining a Reuters Bureau for an internship.”Reward for hard workThe statement added,

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By Ruona AgbrokoDecember 29, 2009 10:26AMTAl-Qaeda, the infamous terrorist group behind the September 11 US bombings, in which thousands died, on Monday claimed responsibility for the failed Christmas Day attack in which Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab tried to blow up an airliner as it landed in Detroit.According to an Internet statement on Islamist websites, the organisation said it had

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By Ruona AgbrokoDecember 13, 2009 12:39AMTThe widely-reported clamour for the resignation of Nigeria's Vice President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan [pictured] is one in a series of challenges that have marked all 10 years of his stint as a politician. But, apparently, Mr. Jonathan's "talisman" is his first name.Mr. Jonathan was born November 20, 1957 in Otuoke in Ogbia Local Council of the then Rivers

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By Ruona Agbroko November 21, 2009Lawyers to Nuhu Ribadu [pictured] have voiced their disapproval of a decision by the Code of Conduct Tribunal on Friday, requesting the Inspector General of Police to issue a warrant of arrest to compel the former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to appear before it.“This situation shows that the tribunal members have failed to

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By Ruona Agbroko November 16, 2009 04:35AMTJournalists across the country will, today, voice their opposition to a Bill which seeks to establish a Nigerian Press and Practice of Journalism Council at a public hearing holding at the National Assembly, Abuja. Sponsored by Abike Dabiri, a broadcast journalist representing Ikorodu, Lagos, the Bill seeks to repeal the Nigerian Press Council

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By Ruona AgbrokoOctober 19, 2009 10:51PMTFollowing the sharply divided opinions after this year's Nobel Peace Prize, it seems to be a season of award controversies as, just three editions on, the organisers of the renowned Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership seem to have found no leaders worthy of the $5 million prize money.Aimed at celebrating good governance in Africa, the

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By Ruona AgbrokoOctober 19, 2009 01:49AMTTwenty-three years after the founding Editor of Newswatch, Dele Giwa [pictured], was killed by a parcel bomb, his colleague and friend, Ray Ekpu, the chief executive officer of Newswatch Communications Limited, says “nothing has changed.”Speaking with NEXT by telephone yesterday, Mr. Ekpu said the date, October 19, 1986 “is significant because of the

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By Ruona AgbrokoOctober 18, 2009 12:12PMTThey lived in a vast shanty town, but the ramshackle community was built on valuable waterfront land coveted by the powerful. In their continuing protest against forcible removal by the state government to make way for a new private development, the residents of this Port Harcourt slum are now paying for their resistance in blood.Five people are declared

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By Ruona AgbrokoOctober 5, 2009 01:01AMTA fall-out between the initiators and researchers of governance ranking in African countries has led to two rival reports being published within four days in South Africa.Both parties have reportedly stated their differences were brought on by “editorial control” and “African involvement”.The Mo Ibrahim Foundation (MIF), named after the Sudanese businessman

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Today I celebrate the penning of the first three hundred and sixty-three words of my non-fiction book on the assassination of Godwin Agbroko, my friend, mentor, cashcow and yes...father. He is pictured here at an outing with his wife a month to his death three days to Christmas 2006.At 2:03 am this morning, this was one reason to be thankful for the insomnia that I have battled for the past three

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By Ruona AgbrokoOctober 4, 2009 10:28AMTWithin 10 days of each other, Nigeria's two secondary school examination bodies released results of their last examinations to much national anguish.On September 10, Promise Okpala, chief executive of the National Examinations Council (NECO) announced that only 10% (numbering 126,500) of 1,200,765 candidates who registered for the body's examination passed

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Ruona AgbrokoOctober 3, 2009 11:03PMTPresiding judge Christopher Hardy at the Southwark Crown court in London on Friday adjourned till November 9, hearing on the money laundering trial involving the female aides of the former governor of Delta State, James Onanefe Ibori [pictured]. The aides reportedly helped him move an estimated £70 million worth of looted funds through several London banks.The

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By Ruona AgbrokoSeptember 11, 2009 03:28PMTBen Murray-Bruce, founder of the Silverbird Group, has absolved his organisation of any responsibility in the large-scale demolitions in Njemanze and Abonnema Wharf, both waterfront properties in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.The United Nations Agency for human settlements, UN-HABITAT, had issued a statement to the effect that the demolitions were “

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By Ruona AgbrokoSeptember 11, 2009 11:48AMTAt the risk of sounding puerile, I intended to sow my wild oats immediately I heard I would be covering a story in Port Harcourt; it is, after all, a city reputed for its nightlife and equally colourful human beings.I am happy to say my experiences were nothing short of orgasmic... the very moment my taste buds came in contact with Port Harcourt's famous

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By Ruona AgbrokoSeptember 5, 2009 02:11PMTIt starts to drizzle and Obinna Davidson finally lets his tears fall, probably relieved that his siblings and the journalist poking a recorder in his face, will be unable to distinguish between his tears and the rain. The Rivers State government began a demolition of structures at Njemanze, Port Harcourt, where Mr. Davidson has lived since birth, on

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By Ruona AgbrokoSeptember 2, 2009 12:48PMTAmnesty International has launched an international campaign against the forced evictions of residents of the waterfront areas of Njemanze [pictured] and Abonnema in Port Harcourt by the Rivers State government. This is even as some landlords in the area faulted a recent declaration of support for the urban renewal programme of the Rivers State Government

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By Ruona AgbrokoAugust 27, 2009 12:34AMTLawyers across the country have described as ‘hasty’, ‘misdirected’ and ‘publicity-seeking’ moves by the chairperson of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Farida Waziri, to relocate to Lagos and unleash a debt recovery team on individuals and companies indebted to the five stressed banks whose management were recently sacked by the apex

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By Ruona AgbrokoAugust 23, 2009 04:48PMTWhen former Inspector-General of the Nigerian police, Mike Okiro told legislators this January he would need N2.78 trillion, equivalent of 90 percent of the 2009 budget -to “run the police force and effectively enhance its crime fighting capacity”, a few present may have given him the benefit of the doubt.The specifics were however a different matter

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By Ruona AgbrokoAugust 24, 2009 04:02PMTAliyu Shaka is in his late 30s and still lives with his father. Dark-skinned and of average height, he is married with children. No, he is by no means unemployed; he drives a commercial motorcycle for living and takes pride in it. His reasons for still living in the house he was raised in decades ago were entirely compassionate - his father's house lies

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By Ruona AgbrokoAugust 22, 2009 03:49PMTStanding just outside the town hall in Egor local government council, Edo State, Caroline Osasu [pictured] did not allow NEXT talk to her daughter. This is not surprising. Mrs. Osazu mumbles in pidgin English that she agreed to this interview in the first place, only because the ‘fixer’ was her close friend.“I can explain a little. I cannot just explain

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By Ruona AgbrokoAugust 21, 2009 05:33AMTFor someone whose intimidating frame, trademark pearls and penchant for A-list events on Nigeria’s social circuit is legendary, Cecilia Ibru, the recently sacked managing director and chief executive officer of Oceanic Bank Plc, is doing an excellent job of going underground.On Friday August 14, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria

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By Ruona AgbrokoAugust 17, 2009 11:43AMTIf they were lucky, potential travellers on the Benin Ore federal road would have a discussion with Bello Ogbeiwi before they started because Mr Ogbeiwi has seen it all. The driver with Edegbe line has been working on the route for 25 years and has driven through the gradual deterioration of the road.Mr. Ogbeiwi, who has been travelling on the route for the

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By Ruona AgbrokoAugust 15, 2009 09:16AMTIt has been a tumultuous day for Nigeria’s financial sector. In the early hours of Friday August 14, news started trickling in that CEOs were to be sacked in five of Nigeria’s most badly managed banks; a first in the history of the nation’s banking history. By 11am, sources in the sector confirmed to NEXT that Sanusi Lamido Sanusi [pictured], the governor

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By Ruona AgbrokoAugust 7, 2009 04:58PMTI don’t care whether it will take countless bloody Marys, half a large Heineken or twenty shots of that scrumptious Belvedere juice (yes, vodka) to cultivate the power of imagination, folks. Make like the NIKE payoff and ‘just do it!’ Just imagine, people... if Fashion were a living, breathing thing, what would be its first words? What clothes size would it

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Timbuktu media, publishers of NEXT newspaper, which has published online since December, Sunday editions since January, goes daily in a few weeks!! [Cue the drum roll, please!]The excitement can only be imagined, as this is a project I have a personal and professional stake in, as a reporter. In a country where there are more losses than gains for practicing journalism transparently, it is only a

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(Blogger's note: Abdul Oroh, Edo state commissioner for information and orientation speaks to NEXT about the goals, achievements and challenges facing the Adams Oshiomole, governor of Edo State in the Niger-Delta. The Edo governor is of the Action Congress (AC) political party in a state house of assembly of president Yar'Adua's Peoples Democratic Party [PDP])By Ruona AgbrokoAugust 3, 2009 10:

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By Ruona AgbrokoAugust 2, 2009 12:37AMTOver four weeks after the Edo State government commenced the demolition of illegal structures across its capital, Benin City, varying quantities of wreckage still dot the city, posing aesthetic, environmental and health challenges to residents.In particular, residents and traders who live or work on the Lagos-Benin-Ugbowo road, told NEXT on Sunday that they

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By Ruona AgbrokoJuly 18, 2009 03:26PMTThe fate of the 37-year-old pioneer civil service training institute in Nigeria, the Administrative Staff College of Nigeria (ASCON), Badagry, Lagos [pictured], is now uncertain following the recent establishment of another institute to handle the same job, in Abuja.The Public Service Institute of Nigeria, pearheaded and constructed during the tenure of the

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By Ruona AgbrokoJuly 18, 2009 03:24PMTThe Federal Government and an official of the British Home Office have denied media reports that the UK government is to "build a £1 million jail" in Nigeria. Nigeria's former Minister of Interior, Godwin Abbe [pictured], and a spokesperson of the British Home Office, in telephone interviews with NEXT, said the reports were purely speculative."There is

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By Ruona AgbrokoJuly 15, 2009 01:00PMTIt took five weeks, four news stories, two visits and a plethora of phone calls from NEXT to irritated government officials and aggrieved residents. But finally, on Wednesday, July 08, one of the resident of Ijoun, a community in Yelwa North local council of Ogun State, Hans Oshinowo confirmed to NEXT that “they (government) have brought the Praziquantel

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By Ruona AgbrokoMay 24, 2009 04:45AMTJohn Ifeanyi Uko [pictured] was arrested on April 09, 2009 for ingesting 136 wraps of cocaine weighing a total of 3.349 kilogrammes. He holds the unenviable record of being the first individual to swallow the highest quantity of cocaine, since the NDLEA was set up in June 1989.Mr. Uko refuses to speak at first, as he fixed his close-set eyes instead at nothing

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By Ruona AgbrokoMay 31, 2009 03:37PMTThe number of Nigerians arrested at airports trafficking drugs has increased more than 10 times over the last decade, new data from the National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has shown.In 1994, 632 male drug couriers were detained, by 2008 the number of those arrested had risen to 7,584. The figures also reveal that there are a lot more men involved in

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By Ruona AgbrokoMay 30, 2009 06:16PMTIf the world is indeed a place where "what a man can do, a woman can do better", then Lagos is probably the city where "what a man can do...the economic situation is forcing women to do better."Justina Moshood [pictured], a native of Abbi, Delta State, is one of such women. I arrived at Mushin market to meet her slim frame spread on the tarred road, underneath

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By Ruona AgbrokoJune 6, 2009 06:47PMTThe road to Ijoun, a village in Yewa-North local council, Ogun State, gets smaller as the forest that flanks it gets denser with foliage. A once-white signboard welcomes you to the "Home of economic buoyancy and profitability," but the reality is the opposite.Residents say that, for years, Ijoun has been a home for urinary schistosomiasis, a parasitic

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By Ruona AgbrokoJune 14, 2009 07:27PMTPriye Iyalla-Amadi, wife of renowned author Elechi Amadi, might have filed (and won) a case against the Nigerian Immigration Service and its director-general, Chukwuman Udeh.NEXT on Sunday can however confirm that the agency’s discriminatory policy against women is still being enforced, with staff of the NIS blatantly cashing in on the consequent

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By Ruona AgbrokoJune 17, 2009 12:19PMTThe Ogun State government has purchased a large quantity of drugs to fight schistosomiasis -a water borne disease caused by worms- which is prevalent in parts of the state, the state commissioner for health, Abiodun Oduwole has said.Mrs. Oduwole said this on Tuesday, during a meeting with schistosomiasis control coordinators from the 20 local government areas

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By Ruona AgbrokoJune 19, 2009 09:59PMTExactly two weeks after a NEXT report on the impact of Schistosomiasis on children in Ijoun, a rural community in Ogun State, this NEXT reporter's phone rang at 22:19 hrs on Sunday June 14.Seun Oyelade, Information Officer of the State's Ministry of Health (MoH) had sent a text message inviting NEXT to an "emergency meeting for Schistosomiasis Control

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By Ruona AgbrokoJuly 7, 2009 12:58PMTThree weeks after Abiodun Oduwole, the Ogun State Commissioner for Health, said that the state government had purchased a large quantity of drugs to fight schistosomiasis (a water-borne disease caused by worms) across the state, indigenes of Yewa-North Local Government Area have told NEXT that they have yet to receive any such drug.After a report was published

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MY CVAGBROKO, RUONA JENNIFERTel: +27 8355221627E-mail: r.agbroko@yahoo.comGender: FemaleState of Origin: Delta State, NigeriaDate of Birth: February 19, 1982INSTITUTIONS ATTENDEDUniversity of the Witswatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa (Journalism and Media Studies [In view])University of Lagos, Nigeria (Bsc Microbiology 2009) Federal Government Girls' College, Sagamu, Ogun State, Nigeria (

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