The Federal Government has declared Monday and Tuesday as public holidays to mark this year’s Eid-el-Kabir celebration. The Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Interior, Dr. Aishetu Gogo Ndayako, announced this in a statement on Friday. He said the Minister of Interior, Dr. Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, made the declaration on behalf of the Federal Government, and…
An Abeokuta Chief Magistrates’ Court on Friday sentenced a 35-year-old man, Kabiru Lawal, to three months imprisonment for stealing goats and ram. The accused, who lives at Olomore area of Abeokuta, had pleaded guilty to the two-count charge of stealing and conversion preferred against him. The presiding Magistrate, Mrs V.B. William, convicted Lawal, following his…
Concerned about the rate at which Nigerian medical and health personnel emigrate to foreign lands, the Commissioner for Health in Ogun, Dr Tomi Coker, has urged the graduating nurses of Ogun College of Nursing Sciences, Abeokuta, to remember the roots that nurtured them, despite the allure of greener pastures. While speaking at the first combined…
The Coalition of Leftists Socialist Organisations had been flexing muscles to make good their plans to hold nationwide peaceful protests in different parts of the country and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) on June 12 Democracy Day. The planned protest was to demand a better life for Nigerians who they said had been groaning under…
Lagos Commissioner of Health, Professor Akin Abayomi, has issued out warning to food traders in the state to stop using harmful preservatives on food. Speaking at a one-day market sensitisation programme in commemoration of World Food Safety Day 2024, organised by the Lagos State Ministry of Health’s Directorate of Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety…
After more than three decades the historic June 12 presidential election which was believed to have been won by the business mogul and billionaire, Chief MKO Abiola, was annulled, the ghost of the election has refused to finally leave the Nigeria’s political firmament. June 12, 1993 has become an important date in Nigeria’s political history….
The Lagos State government has urged the people of the state to be extra vigilant and take precautionary measures as the state records a cholera outbreak resulting in five fatalities. The state Commissioner for Health, Professor Akin Abayomi, issued out the warning in a statement in the early hours of Wednesday that the state had…
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has advised that foods that have not been refrigerated properly as a result of power outages should be thrown out. The health organisation gave this warning on Saturday in a series of messages posted on X.com in commemoration of the 2024 World Food Safety Day themed, ‘Food safety: prepare for…
In this Special Report, Korede Abdullah examines how Nigeria arrived at the unpleasant junction or rather, corridors of the deadly Lassa Fever, with 10 confirmed cases in one week NCDC The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) made a revelation in its latest Lassa fever situation report for week 21. According to NCDC,…
