Jumoke Olasunkanmi The House of Representatives has said it plans to send 14 million out-of-school children back to the classroom through a four-year intervention tagged ‘Nigeria Mass Reduction of Out-of-School Children and Youth Project’, (NiMPROP). According to the Chairman of the House Committee on Alternative Education, Hon. Almustapha Ibrahim Aliyu, the initiative aims to significantly…
Gom Mirian The National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives (NANNM) has disowned the nurse who allegedly treated the late popular singer Ilerioluwa Aloba, also known as Mohbad, before his death. In a statement released by the NANNM on Saturday, it disclosed that the nurse suspected of injecting Mohbad was not their member. NANNM described…
Hadiza Ibrahim The Taraba State Police Command has disclosed that no fewer than 20 suspected kidnappers have been taken into custody. The Police Public Relations Officer, Abdullahi Usman, who made this known in a press statement, added that the suspects have been paraded at the command’s headquarters in Jalingo, the State capital. He said the…
Gom Mirian The Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA) has warned fuel station operators who tamper with their fuel dispensing pumps to desist or risk having their operating licences revoked. Describing the act as illegal, deceptive and harmful to the public, ththChief Executive Secretary, NMDPRA, Mr Farouk Ahmed, noted in Abuja on Friday,…
Jumoke Olasunkanmi The Centre or Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has sounded he alarm that climate change may cause an increase in fungal infections in addition to many other threats it poses to the biological, ecological, environmental and societal systems. In a report released on its official Twitter handle on Friday, CDC explained that rising…
Jumoke Olasunkanmi As part of the ongoing United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), the Director General of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Dr.Tedros Ghebreyesus, has called on world leaders to commit to a five-year plan to end tuberculosis (TB) globally. Dr. Ghebreyesus, who said the UNGA meeting for Friday was focused on tuberculosis, declared that it…
Juliet Jacob Ochenje The doctor who performed two surgeries on the late 14 year-old Adebola Akin-Bright whose small intestine mysteriously disappeared thereafter, Dr. Abayomi Baiyewu of Obitoks Hospital, is not a qualified surgeon. This was revealed on Friday by the Media Assistant to the Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Eromosele Ebhomele, who…
Hadiza Ibrahim The Lagos State Police Command has explained that it used teargas to disperse a group of people who attended the late singer, Ilerioluwa Aloba, popularly called Mohbad’s procession from Lekki tollgate on Thursday because they blocked the roads and caused a traffic gridlock despite persuasion from force official and other people. The Public…
Jumoke Olasunkanmi On Thursday, the body of Mohbad, a former signee of Malian Records, was exhumed after about 9 days after he was buried as part of a process to ascertain the cause of his mysterious death. His former label boss, Afeez Fashola, popularly known as Naira Marley, and his associate, Samson Balogun, also known…
Gom Mirian In a move that could have far-reaching implications for global healthcare, world leaders have approved a new Political Declaration on Universal Health Coverage (UHC) at the United Nations (UN) General Assembly High-Level Meeting in Mew York. The declaration is designed to expand the ambition for health and well-being in a post-COVID world, as…
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