Disability Group, Sightsavers, Calls for Inclusive Education for Children with Disabilities as Buhari Jets to London for Education Summit

A disability group, Sightsavers, has called on the government of Nigeria to ensure that children with disabilities are not left out in the coming global education summit. Sightsavers made the call as Nigeria President, Muhammadu Buhari travel to the United Kingdom on Monday to participate in the Global Education Summit on Financing Global Partnership for Education (GPE) 2021-2025. According to the disability group, “Nigeria has the greatest number of children out of school in the...

Buhari Travels to London for Medical Check-Up, Education Summit

ABUJA — President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday will travel to the United Kingdom. This was disclosed in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina. The President’s aide explained that his employer would embark on the trip to participate in the Global Education Summit on Financing Global Partnership for Education (GPE) 2021-2025. After the event, Adesina said that the President would spend few days in the United Kingdom for an earlier...

President Buhari To Spend Three Weeks Outside Nigeria

ABUJA — Presidential spokesman Femi Adesina had announced on Monday in a statement that President Muhammadu Buhari will be in London till the second week of August. Adesina said the president will first attend a summit in the United Kingdom before seeing his doctors. Buhari was due in London for medical checkup last week but the trip was postponed for an undisclosed reason. “President Muhammadu Buhari will today Monday, July 26, 2021, travel to the...

Over 300 Persons Admitted of Cholera

Over 300 persons have been admitted of cholera following an outbreak of the disease in the Dass Local Government Area of Bauchi State. Director of Programmes, Bauchi State Primary Health Care Development Agency (BASPHCDA) Hajia Suwaiba Yakubu Jibrin was in Dass Local Government Area of the state on Thursday where she assessed the situation of the outbreak in the area. The ActionAid Nigeria has urged the state government and Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC)...

Cholera Cases On the Rise in Nigeria

ABUJA — Concerns about the sudden spread of Cholera is beginning to grow among the authorities as the numbers of suspected cases and death continue to rise. 604 suspected cases alongside 54 deaths caused by the infection have been recorded within six area councils in Abuja. Cholera is an acute diarrheal infection caused by the ingestion of food or water contaminated with bacterium. Ramatu Aliyu, the minister of state for the federal capital territory, who...

Seven Persons Dead In New Artisan Market Enugu, Cholera Outbreak Suspected

ENUGU –-Nineteen critically ill persons and seven dead bodies were discovered at the early hours of Friday at the livestock market popularly known as New Artisan market situated along Enugu-Port Harcourt Expressway, near NNPC Mega Filling station. The Chairman of the Livestock Market, Alhaji Danladi Abubarkar, disclosed that all the affected persons were stooling and vomiting. “Residents of the market woke up to discover seven dead bodies, four men and three women,” Abubarkar revealed. He...

Adamawa State Commissioner Health, Human Services Expresses Concern Over Services Of Some Private Diagnosis

YOLA — Prof Isa Abdullahi, Adamawa State Commissioner Health and Human Services has expressed concern with the services of some private diagnosis centres in Adamawa. He made the remark while cutting the tape to commissioned Apical Healthcare Limited Diagnostic Centre, Yola, a newly established diagnosis centre led by professionals. Abdullahi noted that the hallmark of medical practice is diagnosis, noted that if you did not arrive at diagnosis you retreating a patient blindly, maintained that...

Pope to Read Sunday Prayer from Hospital

VATICAN CITY — The Vatican on Friday said Pope Francis recovery from intestinal surgery is continuing normally but Sunday’s prayer would be led from Rome’s Gemelli hospital. The Vatican said the pontiff is walking and working but he is not well enough to return to the Vatican in time for his Sunday noon blessing there. The situation is indicating that the pope’s recuperation could last longer than the seven days originally anticipated. There had been...

Gombe State Government Employs 22 Fresh Medical Doctors

Twenty-two indigenes of Gombe State who read medical science from the state university as medical doctors have been employed and integrated into the state civil service. Dr. Habu Dahiru state commissioner for Health explained that the 22 fresh graduates of medicine and other related courses from Gombe University were immediately employed to ensure that there is no gap in the health sector. “The development is aimed at bridging the dearth of health workers, especially medical...

Outbreak Of Circulating Vaccine Drive Polio Varius Type 2 Reported In 14 States

An outbreak of Circulating Vaccine Drive Polio Varius Type 2, (CVDPVT 2) has been confirmed in 14 states of the federation. The states are Abia, Bayelsa, Borno, Delta, FCT, Jigawa, Kano, Kebbi, Lagos, Niger, Rivers, Sokoto, Yobe, and Zamfara. Dr. Faisal Shuiab, Executive Director of the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency, disclosed this at the 2nd meeting between the Northern Traditional leaders on PHC and the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency. Shuaib advised that Nigeria must...

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