Category: Health
Drug abuse: The dangers ahead
Tramadol and Codeine used to be the main demons. They walked the streets and ravaged the youths and the elders looked away. Long haul drivers went on their journeys with...
Cheaper medicines on the way, as Buhari set up Inter-ministerial committee
President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the setting up of an inter-ministerial committee to fashion out how medicines and livestock drugs can be made available to the...
Pneumonia accounts for 16% of deaths of children under 5-Study
As the world marks 2018 World Pneumonia Day, research has revealed that the ailment though preventable and treatable accounts for 16% of deaths of infants under age...
Lagos/Canadian Govt opens blood bank to manage outbreak of diseases
In a move to stem the outbreak and spread of virus induced diseases in the state, the government of Lagos State and Canada has unveiled a Biobank Laboratory in Lagos...
Ambode, Canadian Governor General, Payette to open new biosecurity lab in Lagos
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode will on Tuesday join the Governor General of Canada, Rt Hon Julie Payette to inaugurate a new biosecurity laboratory in Lagos....
World Polio Day: Polio recurs two years before eradication year
Civil Society Organizations have issued a stern warning on the diminishing impact of global efforts to eradicate Polio, in developing countries including Nigeria. In...
The amazing health benefits of Pawpaw leaves
If you don’t know the medicinal capacities of Papaya (Pawpaw leave) beyond being the leaf of a yellow fruit, then you are missing in action. It is strange that till...
