Elizabeth Davis, a woman who lost her baby shortly after delivering prematurely at the Ajeromi General Hospital in the Ajegunle Area of Lagos State, has been detained by the hospital management due to her inability to settle her medical bill of N323,000. This is despite the state’s directive to all general hospitals and primary…
Nine persons have died from Lassa fever in Benue State in the past two months. The State Epidemiologist, Dr Sam Ngishe, disclosed this to journalists in a telephone chat on Thursday. This comes after the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention said it has recorded 2,621 suspected Lassa fever cases and 84 deaths…
Segun Johnson Oyero, a Professor at the Federal University of Technology, Minna, has passed on over the inability to afford a quality medical facility. The coordinator of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) Abuja Zone, Salahu Muhammed, disclosed this in a statement on Monday, February 19, 2024, Muhammed stated that 46 members of…
Two distinguished lecturers have been awarded N900 million grants by the Grand Challenges Africa (GC Africa) initiative. The lecturers from the Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Lagos (UNILAG) are: Dr. Margaret Ilomuanya and Dr. Mutiat Bolanle Ibrahim. They received grants totaling over US$600,000 for their pioneering research projects aimed at addressing critical…
The Sultan of Sokoto and President-General of the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar, has condemned in strongest terms, the murder of two traditional rulers in Ekiti State. Recall that gunmen suspected to be herdsmen killed the Onimojo of Imojo-Ekiti, Oba (Professor) Samuel Olushola, and the Elesun of Esun-Ekiti,…
Popular Nigerian actor/director, Yul Edochie has taken to Instagram to appreciate his second wife, Judy Austin. The minister of God shared a photo of his actress wife and wrote: “You see this lady here, I don’t joke with her.” He then proceeded to hail her, referring to her as ”Ijele Odogwu”.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has revealed the third country in Africa to be malaria-free. WHO revealed the name of the country as Cape Verde. This achievement places Cape Verde among the elite group of 43 countries and 1 territory that has received such certification from the WHO. Cape Verde is the third country…
The head of the WHO, the U.N. health agency has said that holiday gatherings and the spread of the most prominent variant globally led to increased transmission of COVID-19 last month. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said nearly 10,000 deaths were reported in December, while hospital admissions during the month jumped 42% in nearly 50 countries…
Professor Ademola Popoola, from the Department of Surgery at the University of Ilorin (Unilorin), has warned that sustaining an erection for over 30 minutes during s*xual intercourse serves no purpose, but poses a risk, and can be harmful to men. Popoola raised this concern in Ilorin during his paper presentation at the university’s 250th…
The University of Cambridge has appointed Professor Ijeoma Uchegbu, a specialist in Pharmaceutical Nanoscience, as the seventh President of Wolfson College, one of its 31 colleges. This was made known in a statement titled, “Wolfson elects Professor Ijeoma Uchegbu as the College’s 7th President on the University’s website. Uchegbu, who will succeed the current…