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WARDC, Others Launch Pink Movement, Protest Women’s Deaths From Unsafe Abortions

WARDC, Others Launch Pink Movement, Protest Women’s Deaths From Unsafe Abortions

Thousands of women from 150 women’s rights and Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) led by Women Advocates Research and Documentation Centre (WARDC), have launched the ‘Pink Movement’ in Lagos, during which they engaged in a walk…

Nigeria Becomes First Country To Get Meningitis Vaccine

Nigeria Becomes First Country To Get Meningitis Vaccine

Nigeria has made history as the first country to receive the new MenFive vaccine from the Gavi-funded global stockpile, New Telegraph reports. A statement from Gavi, on Thursday, disclosed that it facilitated the procurement and…

Assault On Member: UCH Resident Doctors Commence 3-Day Protest

Assault On Member: UCH Resident Doctors Commence 3-Day Protest

Resident doctors at the University College Hospital, (UCH), Ibadan, under the aegis of the Association of Resident Doctors (ARD) have commenced a 3-day protest following an alleged violent assault by some relatives of a patient…

Kano Govt Debunks Measles Outbreak

Kano Govt Debunks Measles Outbreak

The Kano State Government through the Ministry of Health on Wednesday debunked the news report that there is a measles outbreak in the Kano Municipal Local Government Area. Refuting what it described as false news,…

NAFDAC Ban: Danger in Excessive Alcohol Comsumption, Safe Limit

NAFDAC Ban: Danger in Excessive Alcohol Comsumption, Safe Limit

Since the House of Representatives Committee on National Agency for Food Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) ordered the suspension of the ban imposed by NAFDAC on the sale of spirits and alcoholic drinks in sachets…

Boiling Tap Water Can Remove Nearly 90% of Microplastics

Boiling Tap Water Can Remove Nearly 90% of Microplastics

A new study has shown that boiling tap water before drinking it can remove at least 90 per cent of potentially harmful micro- plastics. Results of the new study were published February 28 in the…

NPMCN President Seeks Upward Salary Review, Others to Curb Brain Drain

NPMCN President Seeks Upward Salary Review, Others to Curb Brain Drain

In order to ensure effective op- erations of the healthcare system, the 23rd President of the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria (NPMCN), Dr. Peter Ebeigbe, has urged the Federal Government to urgently intervene so…

IPPFAR Kicks Against Ghana’s New Anti-lgbtiq Rights Bill

IPPFAR Kicks Against Ghana’s New Anti-lgbtiq Rights Bill

The International Planned Parenthood Federation Africa Region (IPPFAR) has kicked against Ghana’s par- liament passing of the new anti- LGBTIQ+ rights bill of Wednesday February 28, which severely infringes on LGBTIQ+ rights. This is contained…

World Obesity Day: UI Launches Campus Obesity Network

World Obesity Day: UI Launches Campus Obesity Network

The University of Ibadan through the University Health Service commemorated World Obesity Day 2024, using the occasion to disseminate the findings of a study on: “Temporal Trends in Overweight, Obesity and Chronic Disease Risks among…

Brain Drain: Shed Consumption Mentality, Fund Health Sector, Neurologist Tells FG

Brain Drain: Shed Consumption Mentality, Fund Health Sector, Neurologist Tells FG

Worried by the alarming rate of brain drain in the health sector, in spite of the undeniable fact that Nigerian scientists are highly rated, a professor of Medicine at the University of Ibadan (UI), Ibadan,…