Tag: health
1,702 Pregnant Women Test Positive To HIV In Lagos
Kazeem Ugbodaga Statistics from the Lagos State AIDS Control Agency has revealed that in the last one year 1,702 pregnant…
Lagos Shuts 28 Illegal Hospitals
Kazeem Ugbodaga The Lagos State Government says it has shut down 28 substandard hospitals and 319 illegal pharmacies across the…
Malaria Kills A Child Every Minute, Says WHO
Eromosele Ebhomele As the world prepares for the annual World Malaria Day Friday, the World Health Organisation, WHO, says malaria…
Fashola Vows To Tackle Goitre Epidemic
Lagos State Government has vowed to control the incidence of Goitre attack by taking on the disease frontally through surgical…
Refresh, Revitalise
By Sharon Jane Akinyemi How important is your health? What amount of money would you be willing to pay to…
How Rebasing Can Translate To Development
Dr Ayo Teriba, Managing Director of Economic Associates and one of the experts who knew how the figures came about,…
Polio: Nigeria 2nd Largest Country With Unimmunised Kids
Eromosele Ebhomele Nigeria accounts for 3.8 million of the estimated 22.6 million unimmunised children against polio living in different countries…
Lagos Begins Surgery On 48 Goitre Patients
Kazeem Ugbodaga The Lagos State Government will as from Monday begin free surgery on 48 residents of Badagry area of…
Accessing Safe Water In Nigeria
By Musbau Rasak British politician and novelist, Edwina Currie, once said that, instead of drinking Coca Colas, turn on the…
LUTH Doctors End Strike
The Association of Resident Doctors, Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi-Araba, on Tuesday said its members would resume work on…
‘Go For Regular Medical Check Up’
Nigerians have been advised to carry out regular medical examinations in order to keep their body in a good shape.…
No Cure For Ebola Disease, Lagos Warns Residents
Kazeem Ugbodaga The Lagos State Government has alerted residents of the state on the danger inherent in contracting the deadly…
Nigeria’s MDG Score Card
By John Tosin Ajiboye The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are eight international development goals that were established after the Millennium…
Ensuring The Well-Being Of The Aged
By Bilikis Bakare Apart from death which everybody knows is inevitable and unstoppable, one other reality that comes to all…
TB Kills 192 In Adamawa
Dr. Stephen John, Project Manager of the TB Control Programme in Adamawa State has revealed that 3,382 cases of Tuberculosis…