A vegetable and fruit expert, Dr Ikechi Agbugba, on Thursday, urged states and local governments to check traders and food vendors using detergents to wash fruits, vegetables, root tubers and nuts. Agbugba, a lecturer at the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Port
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The Kaduna State Nutrition Officer, Hajiya Hauwa Usman, said on Thursday that no fewer than 132 children have died of severe acute malnutrition out of the 12,858 hospitalised between January and October 2018 in the state. Usman, who made this known while giving an update on the nutrition situation in the state at a two-day […]
Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, has charged residents of the state, aged between nine (9) months to 59 years, to ensure they take the yellow fever vaccine, to inoculate themselves against the disease. The state government has also taken delivery of three million doses of vaccine from the Federal Ministry of Health in response to […]
The high level of drug abuse in Nigeria could cause a generation of mad people in the next 20 years, if drug abuse and trafficking are not checked. Drug-Free Arewa Campaign Movement, an NGO, expressed the concern during an advocacy visit to the Kaduna State Attorney-General, Umma Hikima, on Tuesday in Kaduna. Mr. Ibrahim Yusuf, […]
Cholera threatens to significantly increase the health risk of people in Nigeria, especially those residing in the North-East. About 6,200 cases have already been reported in Borno state with 100 deaths confirmed. Since early July, Niger has been battling its worst cholera outbreak in years. As the disease ebbs, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and local […]
ABIODUN JIMOH, BENIN CITY Another middle aged man has been reportedly died of yellow fever menace in Benin City, Edo State capital on Friday. The viral disease which broke out in the state about a month ago had claimed several lives across various communities. The yet to be identified victim was reportedly dead at the […]
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