Fewer Nigerians defecating in public – UNICEF
Here’s some good news for Nigeria: fewer people are defecating in public, opting to use a toilet instead. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that UNICEF Communication Specialist Geoffery Njoku ...
Category Archives: HEALTH
Doctors without Borders shuts clinic in Borno
Aid organization Doctors Without Borders has said it is suspending its emergency health care operations in Borno state, where troops have intensified their raids on Boko Haram insurgents in their big...
A soda a day increases risk of kidney stones
Drinking a can of soda or other sugary drink a day could increase the risk of kidney stones by nearly a quarter, a new study finds. The study, published Wednesday in the Clinical Journal of the Ameri...
UNICEF says over 180,000 teenagers living with HIV in Nigeria
More than 180,000 teenagers are living with HIV in Nigeria, the United Nation Children Education Fund (UNICEF) said here on Tuesday. The figure was released during a national dialogue on adolescents ...
Doctors shut Maiduguri hospital over police assault
Doctors in the flashpoint city of Maiduguri have shut down main hospital in the Borno state capital, citing abuse at the hands of police as a major reason. The physicians told the BBC that policemen ...
“Virgin cleansing” – HIV positive father rapes 2-yea...
Here is some truly disturbing news. Police in Guateng are investigating a HIV positive father who allegedly raped his two-year-old daughter because he believed “sex with a virgin would cure him...
Nigeria to build hospital exclusively for snakebite patients
A local NGO are set to build a hospital in northern Nigeria that will exclusively treat snakebites, the cause of death for hundreds in the region. Voice of America reports that health officials have ...
Over 500 students suffer food poisoning in Cairo
More than 500 students from Cairo’s Al-Azhar University suffered food poisoning after eating at a student hostel, Egyptian Health Ministry reported on Tuesday. Media reports put the number of a...
Busted! Secondary school dropout played doctor at hospital for two mon...
Police in Akwa Ibom state have arrested Usen Effiong, who they say has been playing doctor, consulting at the University of Uyo Teaching Hospital without the right qualifications. Effiong, a 25-year-...
Generator fumes kill two men in Bauchi
Two men living in the Bauchi suburb of Yelwa Makaranta were killed over the weekend by generator fumes they inhaled while working on a water well. The men, Ibrahim Jibrin, 37, and Usman Ali, 35, were...