Dr Emmanuel Anteyi, the Chief Consultant Physician/Nephrologist at the National Hospital, Abuja has been awarded the Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP) of London. A statement issued by his media aide, Chijioke Peters, said Anteyi received the Fellowship on Tuesday in London at
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The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has decried the rapid increase in drug abuses in the country. In a statement released at the weekend in Abuja, the Bureau said the North-West geo-political zone highest number of drug cases, with 2,353 cases recorded, while North Central and South South zones followed with 1,494 and 1,303 cases […]
A medical expert, Dr. Aminu Magashi has expressed concern that the health sector may witness more strikes if funds are not released to the sector. Magashi who made this observation during a Media parley with health correspondents in his office said the present pattern of funding of the sector whereby funds are not released as […]
Following the outbreak of diarrhea in Kebbi State which has claimed over 20 people, the Kebbi State Government has reintroduced the monthly environmental sanitation in the state. Commissioner for Information, Hassan Musa Kalgo, confirmed this, on Thursday, during press briefing. Kalgo disclosed that the decision was approved by the state executive council members in
Cholera is spreading fast through camps housing people displaced by Boko Haram militants in northeast Nigeria’s Borno state, the United Nations said on Wednesday. Most deaths were recorded in Muna Garage camp on the outskirts of state capital Maiduguri, the epicentre of the Islamist insurgency that has also destabilised neighbouring Cameroon, Chad and Niger. A […]
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Thursday confirmed, at least one reported Lassa fever case, in each of 19 states in current the outbreak which started in December 2016. The development was published in a report on NCDC’s website. The 19 states are Ogun, Bauchi, Plateau, Ebonyi, Ondo, Edo, Taraba, Nasarawa, Rivers, Kaduna, […]
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