The need for quality in healthcare services in the country was last week re-echoed at the just concluded fifth West African Health Exhibition (WAH) as over 500 experts who brain-stormed identified poor hospital services and management as a major factor that has plagued the development of the health sector in Nigeria.

At least 30,000 Lagos residents have benefited from the on going free health mission being organised by Lagosians in diaspora, in four traditional rulers’ palaces in Lagos State.

EXPERTS in mental health have called on the Federal government to immediately put in place an integrated approach for management of mental and physical health ailments in the country. The call was made on the basis of an established link between psychiatric conditions and chronic health conditions.

MANAGEMENT and massive awareness campaigns of heart related diseases will next week take the center stage in Lagos following an international health summit aimed at educating Nigerians on the rising incidences of cardiovascular diseases in the country.

EXPERTS in mental health have called on the Federal government to immediately put in place an integrated approach for management of mental and physical health ailments in the country. The call was made on the basis of an established link between psychiatric conditions and chronic health conditions.

United Nation Education Fund (UNICEF) has drawn attention of Nigerians to the life-saving importance of hand washing with soap, ash and water saying, “simple hand washing can halve incidences of diarrhoea among children under five.”

As Nigeria joins the world to celebrate World Sight Day, Lagos State government says it has adopted three core strategies to ensure attainment of the objective of vision 2020.

A slice of what to expect is playing out at the crowded race for nomination tickets for elections into the legislature at the national and state levels where the two camps are relentless in their quest for dominance. A semblance of what to expect came in via a text message circulated in August to attack Senator Patrick Enebeli Osakwe’s 12 years in the Senate.

As part of its Corporate Social responsibility (CSR) as well as empower the Nigerian youths, one of the country’s logistics service provider, the United Parcel Service (UPS) has donated VolunteerCorp with $20,000 to enable them train and redirect more youths on positive thinking.

In what appears a renewed clampdown on perpetrators of examination malpractices in Benue State, no fewer than 17 school principals in the state have been sacked by the state government for aiding and abating malpractice in examinations in parts of the state.