Pascal Arogorn Ibe
- Health
- September 30, 2020
- 348 views
PTF Excited Over Discovery Of 30-Minute Rapid Test Tools
THE Presidential Task Force (PTF) on the Novel Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic has expressed excitement at the impending rollout of 120 million rapid test tools. Chairman of the PTF and Secretary…
- Health
- September 25, 2020
- 389 views
FG Shuts Down Chinese Company Over Water Pollution In Abuja
The federal government has shut down a Chinese company polluting water supply in Karshi area council of the federal capital territory (FCT). The National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency…
- Health
- September 24, 2020
- 352 views
NAFDAC confiscates N350,000 worth of fake hand sanitisers in Bauchi
The National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Bauchi State Office, says it has seized cartons of fake hand sanitizers worth N350,000 in some super markets and…
- Health
- September 22, 2020
- 345 views
COVID-19 protocols: NCAA threatens to revoke license of erring airlines
The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has threatened to revoke the license of domestic airline operators over non-compliance with the COVID-19 protocols of the Federal Government. The NCAA Director General,…
- Health , News
- September 21, 2020
- 426 views
PHOTOS: Schools resume in Lagos, Oyo after long COVID-19 break
Students of Public and Private Secondary Schools resumed back to their various Schools on Monday after the covid 19 pandemic lockdown. Pic shows Students observing various protocols as stipulated by…
- Health
- September 21, 2020
- 376 views
Health workers suspend 7-day nationwide warning strike
Members of the Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU), have suspended their seven-day nationwide warning strike. Mr Josiah Biobelemoye, JOHESU National Chairman, made this known in a statement at the end…
- Health
- September 15, 2020
- 405 views
Enugu: Patients lament as health workers’ strike enters day 2
Some patients at the National Orthopedic Hospital, Enugu are lamenting over the industrial action by the Joint Health Workers’ Union as the strike entered the second day. Some of the…
- EMERGENCY , Health
- September 15, 2020
- 377 views
438 COVID-19 active cases yet to turn up for treatment
The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, says 438 active cases of COVID-19 in Lagos communities were yet to turn up for treatment in the state’s COVID-19 care…
- Health , Homicide
- September 15, 2020
- 455 views
Boy, 11, dies after drinking 5 bottles of beer in a contest
An 11-year-old boy, identified as Humphreys Chipeta, has died after drinking five bottles of Kachasu at a drinking contest in Mzimba. The boy who, according to his peers, was an…
- Health
- September 14, 2020
- 372 views
You Attended To Doctors, Attend To Us Too, JOHESU Tells FG
……JOHESU strike unnecessary, illegal ,FG Says The Joint Health Workers Union (JOHESU) on Monday said the federal government should attend to its demands with the same seriousness it attached to…
- Health
- September 13, 2020
- 489 views
FG bans alcohol in satchets, polythene
The Federal Government has indicated plans to completely phase out high concentration of alcohol in sachet and small Polyethylene Terephthalate and glass bottles in the country . The moves are…
- Health
- September 13, 2020
- 428 views
Health Workers to embark nationwide strike Sunday midnight
Health workers under the auspices of Joint Health Sector Unions, JOHESU has declared a nationwide strike over hazard allowance and non-payment of withheld salaries of their members among others. JOHESU,…
- Health
- September 10, 2020
- 377 views
Israel to begin trials on COVID-19 vaccine
Israel will hold first trials of a COVID-19 vaccine with 100 volunteers, Sheba Medical Centre in central Israel said on Thursday. The trials are scheduled to begin in October at…
- Health
- September 10, 2020
- 395 views
WHO says over 30 COVID-19 vaccines undergoing clinical trials
More than 30 vaccines against COVID-19 are currently undergoing clinical trials in different countries, including in Russia, and this is very encouraging, the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) spokeswoman in Russia,…
- Health
- September 10, 2020
- 395 views
Doctors’ strike: FG approves additional N8.9bn for June COVID-19 hazard allowance
The Federal Government has approved additional N8.9 billion to pay up the large chunk of the June 2020 COVID-19 allowance to all Medical Health Workers in the country. Sen Chris…
