At least 161 students have been hit by food poisoning at Cairo’s prestigious Al-Azhar University, in the second such incident this month, prompting President Mohamed Morsi to call on Tuesday for an investigation. AFP reports that the health ministry said the students had been hospitalised after eating tuna salad served on Monday at the university’s [...]
The Lagos State Government has shut down 30 illegal patent medicine outlets in Lekki area of Lagos, southwest Nigeria. Officials of the Lagos State Task Force on Counterfeit, Fake Drugs and Unwholesome Processed Foods stormed the area at the weekend and sealed the patent medicine stores for operating without license while it alerted members of [...]
The Lagos State Government says it will demolish the three-storey floating school built on Makoko waterfront the school is illegal. The government also said it needs N16 billion to remove the 200 wrecked ships on its coastline. Commissioner for Waterfront and Infrastructure Development, Prince Adesegun Oniru disclosed this on Thursday at a ministerial press conference, [...]
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said Tuesday that it had begun treating children exposed to the worst-ever lead poisoning epidemic, after long-delayed government financing to clean up the area was finally delivered. The lead poisoning crisis in northwest Zamfara state that first came to light in 2010 was “the worst outbreak ever recorded,” MSF said, with [...]
All public hospitals in Lagos State, southwest Nigeria, have transfused 90,788 units of blood into patients in the last five years, says the Lagos State Blood Transfusion Committee. This was revealed on Wednesday at the opening ceremony of the Strategic Planning Workshop organised by the Lagos State Blood Transfusion Committee, LSBTC, held at the Lagos [...]
A decrease in levels of the sleep hormone melatonin has been linked to an increased risk of adult onset diabetes, according to a study published Tuesday in the United States. Research in the Journal of the American Medical Association reported that 370 women with diabetes were compared with 370 women of the same race and [...]
Nigerians are opting for laser surgery as an alternative to open surgery in the treatment of glaucoma. Dr. Magdalene Ajani, the Treasurer of the Ophthalmological Society of Nigeria, Abuja Chapter, disclosed this in an interview in Abuja on Monday. Glaucoma is a group of eye diseases, which cause progressive damage of the optic nerve at [...]
