West Africa Insight

Studies have shown that the leaves, fruits, roots and seeds of Moringa could be used to treat a range of conditions such as abdominal tumors; hysteria; scurvy; paralytic attacks; helmintic, bladder, and prostate troubles as well as sores and skin Read more...

SPECIAL REPORT/Moringa for water treatment

lack of clean water kills almost 4,500 children pay day in Africa, women and girls walk an average of 6 miles daily to fetch water Read more...

Moringa as livestock feed

Both livestock and pets can be fed healthy foods and the highly nutritious Moringa plant is strategically poised to play a major part in this wise. Read more...

Growing Moringa

Recent initiatives such as the cooperation between Sunsia and the Netherlands African Business Council (NABC) have sought to mobilise Moringa growing as an export commodity from West Africa. Read more...

Making a meal of Moringa

Moringa makes nutritious and healthy meals. Most people who have tested Moringa salad are always in a desperate and dogged move to have it on their table at all times. Read more...

CONVERSATION

A conversation with Rabiu Auwalu Yakasai who has been engaging on a MoringaStorm project Read more...

Miracles as Medicine

Most persons in West Africa have taken miracle as a means of getting cured of their illness. Rather than going to Hospitals for medication and cure most of them resort to churches and mosques to be healed through miracle. Read more...

Niprisan: Pains of a Sickle Cell Remedy

This article examines the Sickle cell disorder and the discvery of the NIPRISAN drug . It further gives insight on the challenges faced with production and the commercialisation of the drug. Read more...

HIV/AIDS Cure Claims–Myth or Reality?

This piece explores the various HIV/AIDS cure claims and accross the region, publuc perception and implications to mordern medcine. Read more...

Setting the Bones of Traditional Bone setting

Traditional bone setting has come to be very good alternative to arthopaedic bone setting in west Africa communities, and most persons who have fracture have opted to this service. Read more...

Asthmaton Bears Hope for Asthma Patients

The cure for Asthma has reduced a boost as the medicine for the cure has been discovered. Though many have not known about the discovery of the medicine the article X-rays the discovery. Read more...

CONVERSATION-Why Nigerian Govt Is Producing Sickle Cell Drug

conversation with Professor Karniyus S. Gamaniel (OON), PhD, FPSN, FPCPharm, the Director General/Chief Executive Officer of the National Institute for Pharmaceutical Research and Development on the commitment of Nigeria on the production of Niprisan. Read more...

Urban Transportation and Poverty

The article looks at the connection between transportation and its effect on the urban poor. It brings out the issue of failed policies and proposes some solutions to what goverments may have to do to address the issue. Read more...

SEMINAR : Non State Actors and Transport Facilitation

The seminar organised by WACSOF aimed at involving non state actors in the planning and development of transportation and its facilitation across the region Read more...

SPECIAL REPORT: The Motorcycle Take-Over

This looks at the dominant of motorcycle as a means of transportation in most West African Cities as this is the cheapest means of Transportation in the urban cities. Despite this, the environmental pollution these motor cycles cause is harmful to human. Read more...

ECOWAS Transport and Telecommunication Department

This piece looks at the ECOWAS Transport Departments and its functions in accordance with the ECOWAS Revised Treaty. Read more...

The World at 7 Billion: Implications for West Africa

A look at the implications for the region of West Africa as the world reaches 7 billion Read more...

Population Dynamics, the Youth Bulge and Conflicts in West Africa

The youth bulge from population growth and the danger of these youths as actors in conflicts across the region Read more...

Fertility and West Africa’s Populations

An analysis of the high fertlity rates and the consequent population growth and the need to put in place practises that may help curb the situation Read more...

Gender Dimensions of Population Growth