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The Ilorin Royal Lions Club today stormed the Government Day Secondary School, Gaa-Akanbi, Ilorin for her September service activity tagged Pad Up Girls with the theme: “Empowering Girls, Enriching Communities, in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital. The programme which covered both the senior and junior sections of the secondary school, featured a range of activities…
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has warned that there are substandard and falsified antimalarials, antibiotics, antihypertensives, anti-diabetic agents and life style drugs in circulation. The agency stated this during a community sensitization workshop for stakeholders on standard and falsified medicines in Nigeria, held in Kaduna yesterday. Speaking during the…
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Like slow poison, Mpox has crept unto us spreading across our societies. Mpox spreads primarily through close skin-to-skin contact with infected people or their soiled clothes or bedsheets. It often causes visible skin lesions that could make people less likely to be in close contact with others. What to do to stay safe To stay…
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Very many people eat breakfasts comprising of poultry eggs and a hot cup of coffee IOr tea, but diet experts have warned that eating eggs and coffee or tea at the same time can be bad for you because it may create several health problems. The experts recommend leaving at least an hour between the…
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Healthy lungs are necessities for a smooth enjoyable life. When one or both lungs are diseased, human health and quality of life is greatly hampered. Therefore, paying attention to the state of the lungs’ health is important. Yearly, several deaths are recorded being fatalities arising from lungs ailments such as pneumonia, lung cancer, Bronchitis,Bronchiectasis, Cystic…
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The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has issued a warning about the increasing number of yellow fever cases in the country, coinciding with the ongoing cholera outbreak that has affected nearly all the states. Dr Jide Idris, the Director-General of the NCDC, issued the warning at a press conference on Tuesday in…
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Not less than 10 children have lost their lives from a suspected measles outbreak in Damangaza community, Lokogoma District, Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja. The local Head of the Damangaza community, Mr James Budebo, disclosed this during a one-day outreach programme on Friday in Abuja. The programme was organized by Primary Health Care, Damangaza and…
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[NAN] Dr Temitope Ilori, the Director-General of the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA), said 75,000 new infected HIV cases and 45,000 HIV-related deaths were recorded in 2023. She made this known at a two-day National Prevention Technical Working Group (NPTWG) meeting organised by NACA in Abuja on Wednesday. She said although there…
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The cholera outbreak has claimed 53 lives, the Director-General (DG), Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC), Jide Idris, has said. Idris, at a news conference yesterday, said the deaths were from 1,528 suspected cases across 107 local government areas in 31 states. The deaths are in nine states, out of 16 with the…
The confirmed cases of cholera in Ogun State have risen to 19, Commissioner of Health Dr Tomi Coker has disclosed. This is coming less than a week after a 62-year-old woman died in Ijebu-Igbo, Ijebu-North Local Government Area of cholera. The woman died while caring for her infected child, who is among those hospitalised. Coker…