Foundation Advocates For Establishment of Mental Health Desk In Police Stations

HealthNewsNigeriaFoundation Advocates For Establishment of Mental Health Desk In Police Stations

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)November 8, 2023

In a bid to improve the medical condition of members of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF), the Mind Management Foundation has urged the Federal Government to set up a mental health desk in police stations across the country. Foundation’s Country Director, Barr. Arinze Emmanuel made the plea during a mental health awareness training organized for selected members of the police force in Lagos as part of activities marking World Mental Health Day. It was observed...

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Over 4,000 Unsafe Abortions Averted In Nasarawa State

HealthNewsNigeriaOver 4,000 Unsafe Abortions Averted In Nasarawa State

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)November 8, 2023

The Society for Family Health (SFH) says no fewer than 4,213 unsafe abortions were averted between 2021 and 2023 through the use of modern contraceptives across the 13 local government areas of Nasarawa State. Dr Ibitoye Segun, the Senior Learning Advisor of the Society for Family Health (SFH), disclosed this at a one-day Adolescents 360 mid-project dissemination training in Lafia, the Nasarawa State capital. Segun explained that 54 maternal deaths and 228 child deaths were...

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Irish chef Alan Fisher breaks Hilda Baci’s record, becomes GWR title holder

FoodLifestyleNewsNigeriaIrish chef Alan Fisher breaks Hilda Baci’s record, becomes GWR title holder

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)November 8, 2023

Irish chef Alan Fisher has unseated Nigeria’s Hilda Effiong Bassey as the world record holder for the longest cooking marathon, the Guinness World Records, GWR, said Tuesday. Fisher cooked for 119 hours 57 minutes to break the 93 hours 11 minutes record set in May by Bassey, who is known on social media as Hilda Baci. Nigerian cooking queen Hilda Baci has been dethroned 😳 Alan Fisher from Ireland cooked for an incredible 119 hours...

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Reps set to declare state of emergency on malaria

HealthNewsNigeriaPoliticsReps set to declare state of emergency on malaria

By Uzoamaka Ikezue (Staff Reporter)November 2, 2023

The House of Representatives is set to declare a state of emergency on malaria which it noted will be a step in the right direction given the spate of the disease across the country. The House called on the Federal Government to subsidise malaria drugs if it cannot make them free at all Government-owned health centres for the benefit of Nigerians. Speaking at the inaugural meeting of the Committee on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Control...

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Brain Drain: Over 7,000 Pharmacists Left Nigeria – PSN

HealthNewsNigeriaBrain Drain: Over 7,000 Pharmacists Left Nigeria – PSN

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)November 1, 2023

Prof. Cyril Usifoh, President of Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN) has says more than 7,000 pharmacists emigrated from Nigeria in search of better practice environment abroad in the last two years. Usifoh told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) said on Tuesday in Gombe that the issue of brain drain which remained one of the major challenges in the health sector needed serious attention in the interest of the well-being of Nigerians. Usifoh said government...

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Tony-Oneweek Set to Take Awka by a Storm

EntertainmentNewsNigeriaTony-Oneweek Set to Take Awka by a Storm

Ebuka Onyekwelu (Staff Writer)October 31, 2023

The gyration sensation, Tony-Oneweek, who 25 years ago took the then emerging ‘new Nigerian music industry’ by surprise with his set of gyration tunes that went on to dominate the market for years, is set for a comeback. Tony’s “Onwa December,” became the symbol of Christmas season festivities, for so many years. The release of his “You go bow” album in 1998, almost immediately conferred on Tony the status of an icon of a unique...

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Life and Times of Chief Dr. Mrs. Uju Uchendu Ozoka

LifestyleNewsNigeriaLife and Times of Chief Dr. Mrs. Uju Uchendu Ozoka

Ebuka Onyekwelu (Staff Writer)October 28, 20231

Easily one of the most outstanding women in Nnewi and indeed Anambra State, both in learning and industry, Dr. Uju Ozoka left no stone unturned in pursuit of learning, career and business ventures. Born in the city of Portharcourt, Rivers State, to the family of Chief Isaac and Mrs. Agnes Uchendu of Umudim Nnewi in 1961, the Nigeria-Biafra civil war which erupted a few years down the line, forced her family back to Nnewi where...

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Davido, Rema win two awards at the 2023 Trace Awards

EntertainmentLifestyleNewsNigeriaDavido, Rema win two awards at the 2023 Trace Awards

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)October 23, 2023

Nigerian musicians Davido and Rema won two awards each at the 2023 Trace Awards which was held in Kigali, Rwanda last Saturday, October 21. The Trace Awards is a new awards franchise created by Trace, a global TV and multimedia platform. The purpose of the awards is to recognise African and Afro-influenced musicians from Africa and other parts of the world. Divine Ikubor, known professionally as Rema, won the “Song of the Year” award for...

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Cervical Cancer: About 6 Million Girls To Receive HPV Vaccines

HealthNewsNigeriaCervical Cancer: About 6 Million Girls To Receive HPV Vaccines

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)October 18, 2023

About 6 million girls aged 9-14 years will receive vaccination with over 6 million doses of Gardasil HPV vaccine and essential supplies under the first phase of HPV vaccination in the country. According to experts, Nigeria alone contributes an estimated 12,000 new cases of global cervical cancer and 8 thousand deaths annually. Faisal Shuaib, Executive Director of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) who stated this in Abuja, at a joint briefing with...

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Rema’s “Calm Down” departs Billboard Hot 100 after a 57-week run

EntertainmentNewsRema’s “Calm Down” departs Billboard Hot 100 after a 57-week run

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)October 18, 2023

Nigerian singer Rema’s remixed single “Calm Down” featuring American singer Selena Gomez has fallen off the Billboard Hot 100 after spending a record-breaking 57 weeks on the chart. “It made history, becoming the longest charting and most successful African song of all-time,” the music monitoring platform Chart Data said Tuesday on X. REMA and Selena Gomez's "Calm Down" departs the Hot 100 this week. It made history, becoming the longest charting and most successful African...

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