Teflon Diets, Zebra Cows, and Pizza-Loving Lizards: The 2025 Ig Nobel Prizes Celebrate Weird Science

The Ig Nobel Prizes are back and, as always, they prove that the intersection of humor and science can sometimes yield the most unexpected insights. Each year, the awards honor unusual research that might first make us laugh, but then leaves us...

Science The Guardian Teflon diet, garlic milk and zebra cows triumph at 2025 Ig Nobel prizes

For decades scientists, doctors and public health officials have battled to solve the obesity crisis. Now researchers have won an Ig Nobel prize for a radical new approach: slashing people’s calorie intake by feeding them Teflon. The left-field...

How Oludele Olaniyi Champions Reproductive Health in West Africa

With over two decades of service in clinical practice, research, and community health, Mrs. Esther Oludele Olaniyi has emerged as one of Nigeria’s most respected voices in public health and reproductive health advocacy. Born on August 17, 1970, in...

Togo Joins Africa-Caribbean Push for Reparations at Addis Ababa Summit

(Togo First) - KEY HIGHLIGHTS: • Reparations leadership as Togo spearheads AU classification of slavery and colonization as crimes against humanity • Economic diversification targets Caribbean trade expansion, renewable energy investment, and...

Yarkpah Town Welcomes Newly Constructed Solar-Powered Water Facility

Yarkpah Town, Rivercess County – The Government of Liberia (GoL), in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), has officially unveiled a modern water infrastructure facility in Yarkpah Town, Rivercess County. This project...

Public health emergency workshop underway in Accra

The Africa Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), through its Western Regional Coordinating Centre, has organised a risk communication and community engagement (RCCE) capacity strengthening workshop on public health emergencies....

Grass faces new challenges in the fall. Dan Gill explains how to keep it healthy as growth slows.

Fall will officially start Monday on the Fall Equinox, but summer weather will linger a while longer here. Things are starting to change in our lawns though. The growth of grasses like St. Augustine, centipede, bermuda and zoysia begins to slow...

Olaniyi Champions Maternal, Reproductive Health In West Africa

2 With over two decades of service in clinical practice, research, and community health, Mrs. Esther Oludele Olaniyi has emerged as one of Nigeria’s most respected voices in public health and reproductive health advocacy. Born on August 17, 1970,...

€59m ocean governance drive launched …to tackle illegal fishing in W.A

A €59 million initiative aimed at promoting sustainable ocean governance and addressing the menace of Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing has been launched in Tema. The programme, known as the West Africa Sustainable Ocean Programme...

More Than 100,000 Schoolgirls Receive Educational Kits Under SWEDD+ in Togo

By Kebba AF Touray On Tuesday, September 9, 2025, Togo officially launched a nationwide campaign to distribute educational kits to more than 100,000 schoolgirls under the SWEDD+ Project—Sahel Women’s Empowerment and Demographic Dividend Plus. The...

Nigeria @ 65: Still flying on clipped wings

By Chinelo Obogo [email protected] After 65 years of independence, experts are unanimous in their submission that the Nigerian aviation sector should have soared far above the altitude it currently is. According to them, the nation, by now, should...

West African Health Ministers Unite to Push for Lassa Fever Vaccine

Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire—Health ministers from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) have pledged their support to advance the development and promotion of a Lassa fever vaccine. This commitment was made during the 2nd ECOWAS Lassa...

Human rights violations in Cyprus, Rwanda and Togo 

(Credit: Unsplash) This article is brought to you in association with the European Parliament. MEPs condemned Türkiye’s continued illegal occupation of northern Cyprus and the illegal detention of five Greek Cypriot citizens, and call for the...

Why the Silence on certain Togo cement imports in Ghana’s regulated market?

As Ghana’s cement industry grapples with high prices, quality scandals, and aggressive regulatory crackdowns, one story seems to slip through the cracks: the quiet rise of a particular Togo-sourced cement brand. As an observer of this dynamic...

West African health ministers pledge joint action against Lassa fever

West African health ministers have united in a pledge to tackle Lassa fever with renewed joint action and a collaborative commitment to accelerating vaccine development and enhancing regional readiness against the growing health threat posed by...

West African health ministers commit to Lassa Fever vaccine development

West African Ministers of Health have pledged their joint commitment to advancing the development of and readiness for Lassa fever, in recognition of the significant threat to regional health security posed by the disease. Hundreds of thousands of...

Armstrong appoints Sherry Adams as new State Health Officer for North Dakota

Sherry Adams administrator and CEO of the Southwestern District Health Unit | Official Website Sherry Adams administrator and CEO of the Southwestern District Health Unit | Official Website Sherry Adams, who has served as administrator and CEO of...

WHO winds down mpox public health emergency

After just over a year, the World Health Organization (WHO) today announced an end to the public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) for mpox outbreaks in Africa, which has resulted in new patterns of transmission, emergence of new...

Mpox no longer international health emergency but remains concern in Africa

Published On 5 Sep 20255 Sep 2025 Mpox is no longer an international health emergency, the World Health Organization (WHO) chief has said after experts reported a decline in infections from the dangerous disease in hot spots across Africa. There...

Group links dog, cat meat trade to diseases, wants ban across Africa

The Coalition for Cruelty Free Africa (CFCFA) has intensified its campaign urging African governments, the African Union, and world leaders to outlaw the dog and cat meat trade, animal sacrifices, and all forms of animal cruelty. The group, in a...