Agency The Nigerian Air Force has completed the airlift of the relief materials donated by the First Lady, Senator Remi Tinubu, to victims of the flood disaster in Maiduguri, Borno State. This was contained in a statement by the Director, Public Relations and Information, NAF, Air Commodore ...

Agency No fewr than 893,000 people have been affected by flooding in South Sudan and more than 241,000 displaced, the UN’s humanitarian agency OCHA said Thursday in a grim update on the disaster. Aid agencies have warned that the world’s youngest country, highly vulnerable to climate change, is ...

Agency The United Nations Children’s Fund has donated cholera response kits worth N113 million to curb the spread of the infection in Borno State. UNICEF’s Deputy Representative in Nigeria, Dr Rownak Khan, stated this while presenting the items to the Borno State Ministry of Health, on Tuesday ...

Agency The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, on Thursday, destroyed fake, adulterated and unregistered food, drug and cosmetic products worth about N2.7 billion seized in the South-East. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the products were burnt at the Enugu ...

Agency Some residents of Abuja living with diabetes are having a tough time staying on treatment as they lament over the persistent hike in the cost of medications, which they said increased from N70,000 to N180,000 per month. The patients expressed their worries in an interview with the News ...

Agency A fertilizer company has donated a clinic to the Federal Road Safety Corps and pledged to provide free medical services to victims of road crashes towards strengthening post- crash support services. The clinic was inaugurated by Hajiya Nafisa Shehu, National President, Road Safety ...

Agency The Programme Manager, State Tuberculosis, Leprosy and Buruli Ulcer Control, Dr Ibrahim Umar, has revealed that no fewer than 67,603 tuberculosis patients are currently on treatment in nine states, including Lagos, as of March 31, 2024. He disclosed this in an interview with the News ...

Agency The Ogun State Commissioner of Health, Dr. Tomi Coker has appealed to nursing graduates of the Ogun College of Nursing Sciences, Abeokuta not to forget their roots and the country that nurtured them despite the attraction that greener pastures hold. Speaking at the first combined ...

Agency A Child Rights Advocate, Ambassador Tolu Taiwo, has urged teenage pregnant girls not to see abortion and suicide as options, stressing that they can still fulfil their purpose in life. She gave the advice in Ibadan, Oyo State, at the inauguration of her foundation called ‘Twenty-One Five ...

Agency Curbing gender-based violence can be achieved through good parenting, the Mandate Secretary, Women Affairs Secretariat, FCT Administration, Dr Adedayo Benjamins-Laniyi, has asserted. She stated this at a sensitisation campaign and training, organised to commemorate the 2024 World Family ...

Agency A biopharmaceutical company, AstraZeneca, and partners have inaugurated the Cancer Care Africa programme in Kenya to bridge critical gaps in cancer care from diagnosis to treatment. Head of Communications – African Cluster, AstraZeneca, Asa Skiti, in a statement on Wednesday in Lagos, ...

Agency Over 200 vulnerable persons have received free malaria treatment in Bode-Saadu, in the Moro Local Government Area of Kwara State during a medical outreach organized by the Association of Community Pharmacists of Nigeria, Kwara branch. The association’s Chairperson in Kwara, Mrs Munirat ...