Ending female genital mutilation. Photo credit: Newtown Grafitti/Flickr Eight years after the Federal Government signed the Violence Against Persons Prohibition Act 2015 into law which banned Female Genital Mutilation practice in Nigeria, investigations by PUNCH HealthWise confirmed that many girls…
Established in 2019 with the mission to stimulate a just, inclusive, and thriving civic space using the instrument of investigative and accountability journalism, public policy advocacy, and media development, PUNCH Media Foundation (PMF) has worked tirelessly to live out its…
Participants, comprising editorial and non-editorial staff, who recently joined PUNCH Nigeria Limited, were welcomed to the orientation by the Head Programmes, PUNCH Media Foundation, Ms Rebecca Erureh, who took the time to acknowledge the management of PUNCH Nigeria Limited for…
The year 2021 was an eventful and impactful one for us at the PUNCH Media Foundation (PMF). This is due, in part, to the introduction and commissioning of new projects and the modification of others towards driving sustainable social change,…
The PUNCH Media Foundation (PMF) organised a two-day retreat for key players on the PUNCH HealthWise project, its flagship project, to review activities, programmes, and impact of the project over the last two years and to project for 2022. The…
Code for Africa, a civic-technology organisation, in partnership with the PUNCH Media Foundation, organised a data journalism webinar series for select reporters in PUNCH’s newsroom and other newsrooms across Africa, to equip reporters with requisite data skills that will position…
PUNCH HealthWise has bagged the Impact Africa Summit 2021 award for excellence in health promotion journalism. PUNCH HealthWise beat two other contenders, Africa Health – a health magazine based in Uganda and African Health Solution Journalism, based in Kenya to win…
The National Primary Healthcare Development Agency has given a vaccination waiver for individuals aged 16 and 17 to enable them to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. The agency said this in an advisory made available to journalists on Thursday. “The NPHCDA…
After a six-week surge, Africa’s fourth pandemic wave driven primarily by the Omicron variant is flattening, marking the shortest-lived surge to date in the continent where cumulative cases have now exceeded 10 million. As of 11 January, there have been…
A new study has indicated that some COVID-19 vaccines may affect the length of a woman’s menstruation. The research found that after getting a dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, some women’s menstrual cycles increased by one day longer than usual.…