The federal government said it is working in collaboration with stakeholders and partners to bring into the treatment window 270,000 people living with HIV. The Coordinator, National AIDS/STIs and Viral Hepatitis Control Programme, (NASCP), Dr. Adebola Bashorun stated this in Lagos on at the opening of the two-day National HIV/AIDS Differentiated Service Delivery Performance […]
Eleven inmates of the Enugu Correctional Centre have been released under the federal government prison decongestion programme. The eleven inmates were drawn from the Enugu, Nsukka as well as Oji River and Ibite-Olo custodial centres. The inmates were handed over to the Minister of Interior, Dr. Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo who was in Enugu on Saturday […]
The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Enugu State chapter, has threatened to down tool if the state government and security agencies fail to address the rising trend of kidnapping of health workers in the state. According to NMA, no fewer than 10 health workers had fallen victim to kidnap, particularly from their work places in […]
Surgeons in New York, United States, have performed the first-ever whole eye transplant on a human. Before now, doctors have only been able to transplant the cornea, the transparent layer forming the front of the eye. The recipient of the eye, Aaron James, is a 46-year-old who survived a work-related high-voltage electrical accident that […]
. The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has issued a stern warning to the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) in Abuja against its plan to embark on industrial action. It would be recalled that the resident doctors have engaged in intermittent industrial actions in response to the Federal Government’s inability […]
The Lagos government has sealed a private hospital at Ago-Okota in Oshodi-Isolo local government area of the state for collecting and transfusing unscreened and unlabelled blood to unsuspecting patients. Dr Bodunrin Osikomaiya, the Executive Secretary, Lagos State Blood Transfusion Service (LSBTS), said this in a statement signed by Tunbosun Ogunbanwo, Director, Public Affairs, state […]
Nigerian Association of Resident Doctor (NARD) has tackled the Federal Government for tagging its five-day warning strike as illegal. The strike commenced at 8am on Wednesday, May 17, and would end Monday, May 22. NARD National President, Emeka Orji, who was a guest on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily on Wednesday, asked the Federal […]
There is a relief for Imo residents on Monday night after power supply was restored in the State. Recall that rhe national leadership of the Nigerian Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) agreed to suspend their industrial action in Imo State to enable peaceful resolution of all outstanding issues in an atmosphere […]
Daniel Bwala, spokesperson of Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has come under criticism after he posted a video showing a fellow lawyer opening the vehicle door for him. Attending the first day of the presidential election tribunal in Abuja on Monday, Bwala turned up at the court premise in […]
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