Health
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U.S-based physician advocates enhanced health awareness
By Mustapha Yauri Abuja, April 8, 2019 A United States of America, U.S.-based physician, Dr Chukwuocha Uzoma, has advocated use…
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Newborn baby dies in Italy following botched home circumcision
Rome, April 3, 2019 A newly-born baby from a family of migrants has died in Italy following a botched home…
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Save the Children marks a 100 years, celebrates programme’s success in Gombe
As part of activities marking its 100 years of existence in the world, Save the Children International (SCI) is celebrating…
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Psychiatric Nurse’s Murder: Ugwuanyi offers N5m for information on killers ..Donates N10 million to family of killed Uzo-Uwani scribe
In a firm demonstration of his administration’s utmost concern and commitment to apprehending those behind the assassination of the Head…
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Enugu Govt orders closure of unauthorized sewage dump site at Ugwuaji
The Enugu State government has closed down a dump site in Ugwuaji, Enugu South Local Government area as it…
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Absence of Marriage Registry blamed for increase in child marriages in Gombe
Stakeholders have blamed the absence of a functional Marriage Registry in the whole of Gombe State for the rising cases…
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My commitment to greater Nigeria appreciated by Nigerians – Buhari; Receives results of AIDS Survey, says about 1.9 Nigerians infected
By Ismaila Chafe Abuja, March 14, 2019 President Muhammadu Buhari says his victory at the polls is a clear demonstration…
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Journalists, CSOs appeal for adequate policies for prevention of malnutrition in Gombe
Journalists and Civil Society Organizations (CSO’s) in Gombe have called on the Gombe State Government to adopt adequate policies for…
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FG allocates land to Afreximbank to establish medical centre
By Lucy Nwachukwu Abuja, Feb. 8, 2019 The Federal Government of Nigeria has allocated a 5.12-hectare piece of land in…
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Only 500 pathologists in Nigeria’s healthcare sector – CNP
Pathologists in Nigeria have cried out over the rising incidence of the fall in the number of pathologists working in…
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Congo’s Ebola outbreak exceeds 600 cases, WHO says
Vienna, Jan. 4, 2019 The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Friday said there are now more than 600 confirmed or…
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Ambode’s wife welcomes first baby of the year ….Renews call for immunization of children
Robert Awokuse Wife of Lagos State Governor, Mrs Bolanle Ambode on Tuesday welcomed the first baby of the year…
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Kids in Britain eat 18 years’ worth of sugar before they reach 10 — report
London, Jan. 2, 2019 (Xinhua/NAN) Children in Britain consume 18 years’ worth of sugar by the time they reach their…
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Atiku saves 13-year-old orphan
Robert Awokuse The Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has come to the rescue of…
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Drug Abuse: Youths using embalming oil, paint, petrol – NDLEA
Robert Awokuse The rate of drug abuse in Adamawa and some other parts of the country is on the increase…
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Ambode launches Lagos State’s Health Insurance scheme
ROBERT AWOKUSE Lagos State Governor, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode on Tuesday launched the much-awaited health insurance scheme of the State…
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FMC Doctors threaten strike over kidnapping
Robert Awokuse Following the spate of kidnapping of medical workers in Ondo State, Southwest Nigeria, resident doctors of the Federal…
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Why malnutrition is higher in northern Nigeria – Dr. Davis Bamidele
A nutrition consultant, Dr. Davis Bamidele Omotola has attributed the activities of Boko Haram insurgents as the greatest driving…
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Donor apathy, ignorance, reasons for rising cases of malnutrition in Gombe
WILLIAM ATTAH, A brainstorming session organized by Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC) has identified decreasing Government counterpart funding of…
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Udoma calls for concerted efforts to fight malnutrition
The Minister of Budget and National Planning, Senator Udoma Udo Udoma, on Monday in Abuja flagged off the 2018 Nutrition…
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Back from Paris, President Buhari bags Polio Champion Award; Receives Rotary International, Guinea Bissau Presidents; LADOL Logistics team (See pictures)
Back from the Paris, France Peace Forum, President Muhammadu Buhari has had a busy schedule, including hosting the Rotary…
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More Nigerians dying from cardiovascular diseases—UCH CMD
By Ibukun Emiola Ibadan, Nov. 14, 2018 Prof. Temitope Alonge, the Chief Medical Director (CMD) of the University College Hospital…
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Total Exploration and Production ends TB Awareness campaigns for A/Ibom communities
By Dennis Udoma, Uyo Total Exploration and Production, Port-Harcourt District has ended a One-Day Healthy Living Awareness Campaign at Ikot…
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216 poisonous frogs found abandoned at Colombian Airport
Bogota, Nov. 7, 2018 (dpa/NAN) Colombian Police found 216 live poisonous frogs hidden in a bathroom at Bogota Airport, the…
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