Osun Doctors call off strike By Victor Adeoti The Osun Chapter of Nigeria Medical Association (NMA), on Tuesday directed its members working with state government to resume work after a seven-day warning strike over salary arrears and poor worki...
Ms Eman Ahmed Abd El Aty, world’s heaviest woman dies The Egyptian woman, Ms Eman Ahmed Abd El Aty, believed to be the world’s heaviest has died in the United Arab Emirates. El Aty had travelled to India earlier this year for bariatric weight lo...
The 6 year old Boko Haram victimA six-year old Boko Haram victim, Ali Ahmadu, has survived a corrective surgery in his spinal cord.He can now walk, after 14 days in the hospital.While being ferried to Dubai on September 10, all he could mutter r...
To Render Free Legal Services In Commemoration Of Int’l Day Of PeaceThe Lagos State Government has completed the construction of the first ever high-powered DNA Forensic Laboratory in Nigeria, the State’s Attorney General and Commissioner for Ju...
Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole By Olabisi Akinbode The Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU) of the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, has issued a 14-day ultimatum to the Federal Government to meet its demands or face an indefin...
Doctors suspends strike The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has suspended of its 10-day-old strike for two weeks to monitor the level of federal government’s compliance with the agreement reached. The two weeks period is to affor...
Cholera The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Tuesday said more than 500 people have so far died in cholera epidemic sweeping the Democratic Republic of Congo. The world body said in a statement that outbreaks of the water-borne disease occur r...
Dogs in a Bauchi market By Huseyn Mbar Dr Haruna Zakari, Director, Veterinary Services, Bauchi State Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources says the state government would vaccinate every dog in Damdam Local Government Area against rabie...
Nigerian nurses By Jessica Onyegbula The National Association of Nigerian Nurses and Midwives, Federal Health Institution Sector (NANNM-FHI), have called on the Federal Government to declare a state of emergency in the health sector. The associ...
U.S. Senator John McCain: speaks on his brain cancer U.S. Senator John McCain, battling brain cancer, said on Sunday the disease is vicious but that the treatment is going well and he has more energy than before. “This is a very vicious form of...
llustration: Skeletons in a mass grave The bodies of about four hundreds children are believed to be buried in a mass grave in Lanarkshire, southern Scotland, following a discovery made by BBC. The children were all residents of a care home run ...
A young Nigerian guy who survived a ghastly accident but not scot-free as he sustained 2nd degree burns, has shared his horrifying story.Nigerian student Jerry Chikezie, has recapped his horrific yet amazing survival story following a ghastly mot...
Minister of Labour and productivity Dr Chris Ngige By Joan Nwagwu The Federal Government said that the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) violated section 18 of the Trade Dispute Act of the Federation of 2004 by embarking on strike....
NARD strike: UBTH reduces number of patients By Joy Odigie The University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH) on Wednesday reduced the number of patients it attended to on daily basis due to the ongoing nationwide strike embarked upon by the Natio...
Doctors and nurses in a hospital assisting sick patients By Omowunmi Alake/Esenvosa Izah Some patients affected by the ongoing industrial action embarked upon by the resident doctors across the country have appealed to the Federal Government to ...
Doctors at work not on strike The FCT and Bauchi state chapters of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) have said that they were yet to join the industrial action embarked upon by resident doctors. Dr Roland Aigbovo, the General Secretary, Fed...
