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Covid-19 Reaches Six Continents

By Online Editor February 26, 2020 8 0

The death toll from coronavirus is over 2,700 worldwide, with the vast majority in mainland China. There have been more than 80,000 global cases in every continent, except Antarctica. In Europe: Europe’s biggest outbreak is in Italy, and European nations are racing to control the contagion. In the Americas: A patient who tested positive in Brazil marks Latin Read More...

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Decomposing Corpse in Ibadan City Centre

By Online Editor February 21, 2020 10 0

There is a decomposing body in front of a popular hospital (Group Medical) around Mokola roundabout, Ibadan.  Relevant authorities are hereby informed to evacuate the body to prevent environmental and health hazards.  Adedayo AdelowoRead More...

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Osun Govt. Approves Salary Increment for Health Workers

By Online Editor February 19, 2020 28 0

Osun State Government has approved the implementation of 100 percent payment of the Consolidated Medical Salary Structure (CONMESS) and Consolidated Health Salary Structure (CONHESS) for all categories of health workers in the state. The approval puts an end to eight years of agitation for salary increment by medical practitioners in the state. The CONMESS is […]Read More...

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Ibadan Residents Call for Prosecution of Paracetamol Food Vendors

By Online Editor February 10, 2020 61 0

Years back, people used different strategies in processing food such as dropping nails in meat while cooking to soften it, adding potash to beans and fermenting cassava over a period of three to four days for fufu. The story has changed nowadays, and the latest trend whereby paracetamol, bleach and detergents are being used in food […]Read More...

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Examining Using Paracetamol, Bleach to Cook

By Online Editor February 10, 2020 39 0

In times past, people use different strategies in processing food such as dropping a nail or two while cooking meat to soften it, adding potash to beans and fermenting cassava over a period of three to four days for fufu. The story has changed and the latest trend where paracetamol, bleach, and detergents are being […]Read More...

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NAFDAC, Delta Government Collaborate on the Fight against Fake Drugs

By Online Editor February 7, 2020 31 0

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, says over one trillion naira worth of counterfeit products were destroyed by the agency in the past two years, including the destruction of goods worth one point two billion naira in December 2019. The Director-General of NAFDAC, Professor Mojisola Adeyeye, stated this at the […]Read More...

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UNICEF Consultant Calls for Making FGM a Taboo

By Online Editor February 6, 2020 27 0

As Nigerians join other people across the globe to mark this year’s International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), a UNICEF consultant on FGM, Mrs. Aderonke Olutayo wants the people to adopt non-circumcision of female children as a binding tradition. Mrs. Olutayo particularly called on the Yorubas to regard the practice as […]Read More...

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Medical Experts Wants More Sensitisation on FGM

By Online Editor February 5, 2020 35 0

Medical practitioners have called for more sensitisation campaign especially in rural areas about the dangers involved in female genital mutilation on the occasion of the day against Female Genital Mutilation, FGM. They stated this while speaking with Radio Nigeria correspondent, Tosin Aderibigbe. Tosin AderibigbeRead More...

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Stakeholders Want Conducive Environment for Medical Sector

By Online Editor February 5, 2020 37 0

Medical experts say brain-drain in the nation’s health sector will continue if the government at all levels fails to provide a conducive environment for the workers. They stated this while speaking with Radio Nigeria correspondent, Temitope Mosadomi on the causes and solutions to the menace in the sector. Her report. Temitope MosadomiRead More...

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FGM: Checking the Trend, Reducing the Threat

By Online Editor February 5, 2020 23 0

World Health Organisation, W.H.O. put the figure of female genital mutilation or cutting at one hundred and forty million girls and women worldwide, with three million girls at risk of undergoing the practice every year. How then can female genital cutting be reduced? Our health correspondent, Titilayo Kupoliyi sheds more light on this.Read More...