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Hazard allowance: FG urges doctors, health workers to shelve strike notices
The Federal Government has appealed to the National Association of Resident Doctors and the Joint Health Sector Unions to withdraw their strike notices immediately.
The...
NDLEA arraigns seven Indians, three Nigerians for smuggling 43.1 cocaine
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on Friday arraigned seven Indians and three Nigerians for allegedly smuggling 43.1 kilogrammes of cocaine into the...
Delta COVID-19 variant detected in Nigeria – NCDC
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Thursday night says it has detected a confirmed case of the SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant in the...
Lagos accounts for 66 of Nigeria’s 91 new COVID-19 infections –...
The Nigerian Centre for Disease Control on Tuesday recorded 91 new cases and no COVID-19-related death Tuesday.
The NCDC stated that the 91 additional cases...
Pope Francis hospitalised, to undergo colon surgery
Catholic pontiff, Pope Francis, has been admitted into a Rome hospital over inflammation of the large colon.
A Vatican statement disclosed that the 84-year-old pontiff...
Bandits kidnap babies, two nurses, others from Kaduna hospital
Unknown gunmen suspected to be bandits on Sunday kidnapped some babies, two nurses and three staff from the residential quarters of the National Tuberculosis...
NDLEA nabs mother of three with 100 wraps of cocaine tucked...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has arrested a Brazil-based woman, Mrs. Anita Ugochinyere Ogbonna with 100 pellets of cocaine concealed in her private...
Ogun matron dies, husband injured in road accident
An undisclosed nursing matron at Iperu General Hospital on Friday died in a road mishap while her husband who was accompanying her to a...
Patient plunges into river after fleeing FMC Owerri
A woman identified as Chidimma Ndubuisi, on Wednesday, escaped from the facility of Federal Medical Centre, Owerri and allegedly jumped into Nworie River.
Ndubuisi, whom...
COVID-19: NCDC seeks partnership with pharma sector to strengthen health security
The Director-General of Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, has called for stronger collaboration with pharmaceutical industries as part of measures...
