Cholera: FCTA, foundation sensitise students to preventive measures
2024-07-09
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Suspended Yobe PHC boss admits therapeutic food theft
2024-07-03
By Nabilu Balarabe Mr Ibrahim Lawan, Director of Primary Healthcare (PHC), in Nangere Local Government of Yobe, currently on suspension for diverting Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF), has confessed to committing the crime. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), reports that the state’s PHC Board had suspended Lawal for “diverting andContinue Reading
Nigeria reports 63 deaths in ongoing Cholera outbreak
2024-07-02
By Abujah Racheal The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC), says it registered 63 deaths and 2,102 suspected cases in the ongoing cholera epidemic across the country. The Director-General of the centre, Dr Jide Idris, said this during a news conference on the cholera situation on Tuesday in Abuja.Continue Reading
Pate inaugurates medical structures at UATH to expand services
2024-07-02
Prof. Muhammed Pate at the inauguration in UATH, Gwagwalada By Uche Bibilari The Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Prof. Muhammed Pate, has inaugurated some medical structures in the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital (UATH) for affordability of health care services. Pate, at the inauguration on Monday in Gwagwalada,Continue Reading
Fake products: NAFDAC seals 100 shops in Enugu
2024-07-02
By Stanley Nwanosike The National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has shutdown about 100 shops in Ogbete Main Market, Enugu for alleged dealing in suspected fake alcoholic beverages. The agency also confiscated a truckload of adulterated products and arrested four suspected traders in a well-coordinated raid. NAFDAC’sContinue Reading
Cholera: Group tasks Enugu Govt. on safe water, hygiene services
2024-07-02
By Alex Enebeli The Network of Water Rights Initiative (NEWARI), an NGO, has urged the Enugu State Government to ensure that the water being consumed by residents of the state is safe. The Enugu Coordinator, Amb. Amaka Nweke, who made the call on Monday in Enugu, said that such stepContinue Reading
Nigeria recorded 75,000 new HIV infections in 2023 — NACA
2024-06-26
By Justina Auta Dr Temitope Ilori, the Director-General of National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA), said that Nigeria recorded 75,000 new infected HIV cases and 45,000 HIV-related deaths in 2023. She made this known at a two-day National Prevention Technical Working Group (NPTWG) meeting organised by NACA inContinue Reading
Cholera: APC chieftain urges effective utilisation of N260bn PHCs revitalisation fund
2024-06-25
By Victor Adeoti Olatunbosun Oyintiloye, a Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), says the release of N260 billion Primary Healthcare Centres (PHCs) revitalisation fund by the Federal Government is timely following recent cholera outbreak in the country. Oyintiloye, in a chat with newsmen on Sunday in Osogbo, said thatContinue Reading
Widows benefit from N40m welfare package in Lagos
2024-06-25
By Kemi Akintokun No fewer than 800 widows received N50,000 cash gift from the Lagos State Government through the Ministry of Women Affairs and Poverty Alleviation (WAPA), in commemoration of the 2024 International Widows Day (IWD). Mrs Bolaji Dada, the Lagos State Commissioner for Women Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, disclosedContinue Reading
Cholera: FG urges states to scale up environmental surveillance
2024-06-24
By Felicia Imohimi The Federal Government has urged states and local government councils to scale up environmental health surveillance in eateries and public places nationwide. These include markets, garages, schools, restaurants, stadia, religious and sporting events venues. Dr Iziaq Salako, Minister of State for Environment, gave the directive in aContinue Reading
