National Orthopaedic Hospital, Igbobi Lagos, NOHIL has been awarded interim accreditation for its Federal College of Orthopaedic Technology, FECOT, by the National Board for Technical Education, NBTE even as the Hospital graduated 96 students from its Schools of Post Basic Nurses and Orthopaedic Health Assistant.

AS part of measures to promote malaria prevention, social moblilisation as well as checkmate the menace of malaria in Ibeju Lekki area of Lagos state and environs, Chevron Nigeria Ltd., and its senior partner, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, have deployed a Roll Back Malaria programme as a means of creating awareness and education of at risk groups.

The West Africa Commission on Drugs, WACD, has urged the Nigerian government to rethink its drug policy in the interest of Nigerians and the entire West African zone. The call was made as key findings of the Commission’s report titled “Not Just in Transit: Drugs, the State and Society in West Africa” are to be shared with the Minister of Health, the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Drugs Control, and Civil Society groups.

To mark this year’s World AIDS Day 2015, the Red Ribbon Coalition, an alliance of strategic NGOs and private sector partners in Nigeria, is embarking on 4-day nationwide community outreach in various Local Government Areas to reach over 3.5 million Nigerians with HIV key messages and 7, 500 for HIV Counselling and Testing (HCT) services.

Senate Deputy Minority Whip and ex- Deputy Governor of Ekiti State, Senator Biodun Olujimi, has described the All Progressives Congress, APC’s change mantra as empty and without substance, saying that no meaningful change has occurred in the country in the last six months of President Muhammadu Buhari’s government .

Another challenge is that for people living with HIV and Tuberculosis to be going about looking for where to make payment, is a high risk. At the bank, they will ask you what are you paying for, and when you tell them, they will not treat you very cordial. In an idle situation, many of these people on TB treatment should not be moving about.

The Igba of Warri, Chief Rita Lori-Ogbebor, has said that the late Olu of Warri, HRM Ogiame Atuwatse II did no wrong to warrant his children asking for forgiveness from his subjects, as final funeral rites continue in his honour in Warri Kingdom.

By Uche Onyebadi Chicago is an alluring, windy city. But it was a violent wind of sadness, fury and protests that virtually paralyzed the city last week. Protesters, most of whom were African Americans filled the city, angry at what they considered to be another layer in the constantly mushrooming evidence of police brutality against […]

NATIONAL leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has described former Senate President, Senator David Mark, as an asset to Nigeria as a country.

Indications emerged, yesterday, that more heads may roll over the disappearance of $2 billion meant for the procurement of arms and ammunition for the country’s armed forces in the office of the National Security Adviser under the last administration.