[ad_1] Residents of Babanna in Niger State have called on the federal and state governments to help rebuild the collapsed bridge that connects them to the Republic of Benin to ease trade and farming. Babanna is a border town between Nigeria in Borgu Local Government Area (LGA) of Niger State and Benin Republic. A resident,…
[ad_1] The federal budgetary allocation to the health sector within the last two fiscal years showed an appreciable increase of over N237.7bn in capital, N 3.7bn in overhead and N119m in personnel costs. Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Health, Mahmuda Mamman said this in Abuja on Thursday during the opening of an executive course on 2023…
[ad_1] 2 ministries under probe for multi-billion naira contract scams Automation policy in procurement process underway Last year, we recorded 3,785 convictions – Bawa The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has concluded plans to go after some outgoing governors and other public officials after May 29. EFCC Chairman, Abdulrasheed Bawa, who disclosed this…
[ad_1] Uganda has ordered health officials to step up screening along its border with Tanzania following a deadly outbreak of the Marburg virus in the neighbouring country. Tanzania on Tuesday said five people had died after contracting the highly dangerous virus which causes severe fever and is often accompanied by bleeding and organ failure. In…
[ad_1] India’s Patent Office rejected on Thursday US pharmaceutical giant Johnson and Johnson’s application to extend its patent on a key tuberculosis treatment, allowing local companies to make cheaper generic versions. India accounted for nearly 29 per cent of 10.6 million tuberculosis cases worldwide, according to the World Health Organisation’s 2022 Global TB report, a…
[ad_1] On Thursday, a United Kingdom court found former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, and his wife, Beatrice, guilty of organ trafficking. The couple were found guilty alongside a medical doctor, Dr. Obinna Obeta. They were convicted for facilitating the travel of a young man to Britain with a view to his exploitation after a…
[ad_1] The Marburg virus epidemic in Equatorial Guinea has left 20 people dead over the past two months, the World Health Organisation said on Thursday. The outbreak of the haemorrhagic fever, which is almost as deadly as Ebola, has now spread beyond the province of Kie-Ntem, where it caused the first known deaths in January,…
[ad_1] The USA-based AIDS Healthcare Foundation, an NGO, on Thursday called on governments and world leaders to prioritise the prevention and treatment of Tuberculosis to curb avoidable deaths in Nigeria. AHF’s Programme Director in Nigeria, Dr. Echey Ijezie, made the call in a statement it issued in Abuja to herald the 2023 World Tuberculosis Day….
By Juliet Jacob The British High Commission in Nigeria has said the UK Minister of State for Development and Africa, Andrew Mitchell MP, is prepared to take action against those who engaged in or incited electoral violence during the just-concluded general elections. The commission said the UK was already collating names of perpetrators…
Ike Ekweremadu, former deputy senate president, has been found guilty of organ trafficking by a United Kingdom court. His wife Beatrice, daughter Sonia and Obinna Obeta, a doctor involved in the case, were also found guilty. The jury found that they conspired to bring the victim to London to exploit him for his kidney….
