Category: HEALTH ALERT
Measles death toll in Samoa rises to 15 —UNICEF
The death toll from a measles outbreak raging in the Pacific nation of Samoa has risen to 15, with most of the victim’s young children, UNICEF saidRead More…
Child upbringing: Mrs Akeredolu decries rate of abandonment by men
The wife of Ondo State Governor, Arabinrin Betty Anyanwu- Akeredolu has decried the rate at which many Nigerian men abandon the responsibility of traRead More…
Indian man guards Lagos house with lion
Operatives of the Lagos State Environmental Sanitation and Special Offences (Enforcement) Unit have surrounded a house being guarded by a lion on MurRead More…
NDLEA destroys 40 hectares of hemp plantation in Oyo state
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, Command in Oyo State, on Thursday destroyed over 40 hectares of hemp plantation in Abatade in Oluyole LocalRead More…
Nigeria tops global pneumonia mortality with 162,000 deaths yearly
DJ Cuppy pledges N5.1b to fight scourge With an estimated 162,000 children that reportedly died of pneumonia in Nigeria in 2018, the country has bRead More…
Australia bushfires: Sydney area faces ‘catastrophic’ threat
The fires have also destroyed homes and property Australia is warning of a “catastrophic” bushfire threat to its largest city Sydney and surroundiRead More…
How faeces chased teachers, pupils out of school in Ibadan
Teachers and pupils in one of the primary schools in Ibadan, the Oyo state capital, Ibadan Municipal Primary School, Mokola, have abandoned six out oRead More…
Mobile camel clinic providing healthcare to Kenyan nomads
Nomadic communities in Kenya, including the Samburu, Maasai and Turkana peoples, traverse large areas of arid and semi-arid countryside in search of Read More…
Stepmother, herbalist burn Nasarawa teenager’s hands over witchcraft
A 13-year-old boy, Ovey Friday, whose hands were allegedly burnt by an herbalist on the prompting of his stepmother in Nasarawa State, has narrated hRead More…
Zimbabwe fires striking doctors
Doctors in Zimbabwe have been on strike since September to demand for higher pay The government of Zimbabwe has fired 77 doctors who have been tRead More…