The National Youth Service Corps has announced the schedule for the 2024 Batch ‘B’ Stream II Orientation Course. The announcement was contained in a circular dated August 7, 2023, and titled “2024 Batch “B” Orientation Course”. It was signed by the Director, PRS, Ahmed Ikaka, for the Director General of the corps. The circular noted…
The World Health Organization (WHO) has allocated $1 million from its Contingency Fund for Emergencies to bolster the Mpox response. WHO Director-General, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced the funding during an online media briefing yesterday. “We have a regional response plan requiring $15 million for surveillance, preparedness, and response activities,” Ghebreyesus said, noting that further…
Commercial sex workers in Kano have appealed to organisers of the nationwide hunger protests to engage the Federal Government in dialogue. They told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday that the protests had crippled social-economic activities, leaving them without customers and struggling to survive. Monica James, who operates on France Road, said that…
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention has recorded 7 cases of suspected Lassa fever in the country and 163 deaths across 28 states and 125 local government areas. The NCDC confirmed 958 cases from the suspected cases from January to July, 2024. In the same report, the total number of health workers affected…
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has sold $876.26m to end users whose bids were submitted by some 26 banks. This was disclosed in an official circular tagged: CBN Affirms Liquidity Support to FX Market. In the circular released on Wednesday, CBN said the move is to boost the falling naira. According to the circular,…
*‘Even Military Didn’t Raid Our Offices’ The Nigeria Labour Congress(NLC) has described the raid on its office as a new low in operation of security operatives. The Police had raided headquarters of the Congress (NLC) over allegations that members of the organised labour sponsored the #EndBadGovernance protest. Some labour leaders said main officials had left…
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has called for the reversal of all policies contributing to the country’s economic crisis. In a communiqué sent to Africa Health Report after an emergency meeting on Wednesday night, NLC President Comrade Joe Ajaero and General Secretary Emmanuel Ugboaja emphasised the urgent need for policy changes to address severe hardship…
* many people living in Lesotho are in grief of death by suicide *87.5 people per 100,000 of the population take their own life every year in Lesotho Grim Statistic It is a steep climb from the main road to 79-year-old Matlohang Moloi’s home, through the mountains that make Lesotho one of the highest…
Africa is experiencing a renewed alarm over monkeypox as a newly identified and more dangerous strain of the virus spreads across the continent. This resurgence comes two years after a global outbreak. The new Clade Ib subclade, first identified in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and now present in several neighbouring countries,…
The Federal Government has announced that the new federal medical centres established in Epe, Lagos State, and Misau in Bauchi State, will each have a school of nursing. Dr Tunji Alausa, the Minister of State for Health and Social Welfare made the disclosure on Tuesday in Abuja while presenting letters of appointment to the acting…
