They were alleged to have incited the violence following their airing of a programme, Sandar Girma, which content was anti-immunisation
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Ki-Moon offered his “sincere condolences” to the families of all the victims a statement by his spokesperson said on Tuesday
The doctors, whose nationalities could not be authoritatively confirmed as at press time, were beheaded in Potiskum, where they work in the state’s General Hospital and then travel around to other state-owned hospitals
The proposal of a pharmaceutical plant is one of several initiatives aimed at giving the UNESCO Category 2 centre for biotechnology a strong footing, as disclosed by Prof. Maciej Nalecz, the Director of Basic Sciences and Engineering of UNESCO, while speaking on “Biotechnology: Prospects and Challenges in Africa.”
Mark said that a public hearing on the new NHIS would be held on next Monday in the National Assembly
Akpabio, who bared his mind during a meeting with chairmen of the 31 local government areas in the state, directed the Executive Chairman of Ikot Ekpene Local Government Area to stop motorcycle mechanics and block moulders from working on the covered drains as dirts from repairs or moulding could deface their aesthetic value
The Governor of Osun State, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, who lamented the rising cases of accidents on roads in Nigerian, which has claimed numerous promising lives, vowed that government would procure more ambulances to cover all accident flash points in the state
Aregbesola disclosed that there is no cause for worry as Osun is polio free despite that there are 119 cases of polio in the country, spread across 13 high-risk states
Sambo, who stated that the health sector was a critical priority of the UN MDGs, added that its importance was also reflected in the country’s national development objectives, particularly in the Vision 20:2020 and the Transformation Agenda
Uduaghan, who made the call at the ongoing NMA 1st National Health summit in Asaba, the Delta State capital, said unless there was adequate advocacy there was no way the Nigerian worker would be effectively mobilized to contribute towards the NHIS
The governor, who made the call for partnership at the Day 3 of the 1st National Health Summit in Asaba, the Delta State capital, said that government was taking this step as there was a huge gap between the needs of the people and services provided in the health sector
Nurses, midwives, pharmacists, medical technologists and other categories of health workers, who staged a protest at the Federal Medical Centre, Idi-Aba, Abeokuta, Ogun State, criticised Chukwu for what they described as unnecessary discrimination in tertiary health institutions
The University of Benin has disowned claims its researchers have found a cure for HIV/AIDS, a day after one of…
The teething powder, allegedly adulterated, was said to have killed about 80 children in 2009
The latest breakthrough owes its success to a pioneering research carried out in the United States by a team of scientists including Nigeria’s Professor Maurice Iwu, an acclaimed pharmacologist and tropical medicine expert
Having a body mass index (BMI) of between 30 and 35 (medically termed ‘obese’) causes more deaths, but people whose BMI was higher than 35 were 29% more likely to die by the end of the study than their normal-weight counterparts
The NMA said Wada’s decision shows he believes in the Nigerian medical care system
Dr. Crandall cannot find scientific explanations for these recoveries, and the fact that they occurred has convinced him that faith-based medical miracles do happen
The medical experts made their position known at the 2012 Executive Conference of the African Organisation For Research and Training in Cancer
She died on Thursday evening after delivering a baby in Nasara Hospital,Marafa Estate in Kaduna