“The council is expected to facilitate the implementation of the Cybercrime Act, 2015, as well as the National Cyber Security Policy and Strategy.”
The minister said the Ministry of Communications was engaging the Nigerian Army on possible technology collaboration to tackle the activities of insurgents and other security challenges in the country
Browsing: R&D Health
Briefing the press on Monday, the Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, said the set targeted goals are ambitious, but certainly doable and would keep the top management of the Federal Ministry of Health on their toes in the next 100 days of implementation
Unicef said out of 244,000 children found to be suffering from acute malnutrition in Borno State, almost one in five, or roughly 49,000, would die if they failed to get quick medical assistance
Garba said: “Our Institute of Agricultural Research has already done quite a lot of work and has actually submitted a report to the minister.
“They studied the outbreak, found the remedy and it has already been arrested
GSH is capable of preventing damage to important cellular components caused by reactive oxygen species such as free radicals, peroxides, lipid peroxides and heavy metals
Yusuf described as very “alarming” the level of malnutrition among children, adding that five out of 10 children in the state remain malnourished.
He said: “According to the SMART report of 2015, over 66 per cent of children in Plateau are totally malnourished
Quoting extracts from the Act, he said: “The Nursing and Midwifery (Registration etc) Act (hereinafter in the decree referred to as ‘the principal Act’) is hereby amended as set out in this Decree. – Amendment of Cap 332 LFN
“We are strongly committed to the task of reversing the trend of overseas medical tourism in favour of local medical tourism, through the provision of the right atmosphere for qualitative medical care
NAN reports that the High Level Policy Forum is to assess the benchmark academic standards for engineering profession, which outcome would determine whether or not Nigerian engineers will be granted international accreditation
The speaker, who was represented by the Chairman, House Committee on the Environment, Dayo Saka-Fafunmi, said the state government was committed to improving the environment
Speaking through the Secretary to the State Government, Tunji Bello, Ambode added that the State Government remains committed to the “GREEN” cause and would vigorously pursue the state green policy of total regeneration of degraded sites
He called on the youth in the state to go into mechanised farming so that the country can be self-sufficient instead of relying on importation.
Aregbesola said for the country to come out of its current economic doldrums, there must be a total shift from oil money, which has contributed to total neglect of agriculture
N Goodwill Ambassadors, brothers Joan, Josep and Jordi Roca of restaurant El Celler can Roca, ranked among the best chefs of the world, UN Agencies, the Sahara Group and Nigerian government authorities will partner on the Food Africa project
The study was released by the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 and published in the Lancet, the world’s leading general medical journal.
Based on data collected in 183 countries, the study found that deaths from infection, liver disease and cancer caused by viral hepatitis increased by nearly two thirds, from 890,000 in 1990 to 1.45 million in 2013
The Co-chair, Bill Gates and and Aliko Dangoate, through a tele-conference coordinated in Bauchi, assured the state government that they would continue to support the programme.
The expert said he made the discovery after conducting studies at the National Post Graduate Medical College of Nigeria, Lagos in 2015 by testing the reaction of live mosquitoes to sebum-coated paper
According to Ukoh, osteoporosis often progresses without any symptoms or pain, adding that the first sign may actually be a fractured bone.
She, however, stated that so many factors could predispose women to the condition
The Medecins Sans Frontiers trauma centre in the southern Afghan city of Lashkar Gah is one of only three referral hospitals in the country’s south, and serves approximately one million people stranded in the war zone. Here, under-resourced health workers treat malnourished babies, landmine victims and car crash injuries against a backdrop of gunfire and shelling
Udoma made this known when the Regional Director of the World Health Organisation, Dr. Matshidiso Rebecca Moeti, visited him in his office.
He said: “This administration is committed to providing adequate fund for the health sector. We hope to up scale the budget for health next year compared to what is obtained in this year’s budget
The Chairman of the Ministerial Task Team on the recovery of the N9 billion owed the AEPB, Baba Shehu Lawan, made this disclosure after executing the Court Order on Tuesday