Poor quality, bane of maternal health globally, says new Lancet study
In what has been described as the first-of-its-kind, a study by The Lancet Series, reports a widening gap in maternal health care globally for women across rich and poor countries, including the United States of America, that can lead to poor health and even death.
Konduga, former Boko Haram spokesman, still in psychiatric hospital – Police
The Borno Police Command said on Monday that it had placed the former spokesman of the Boko Haram sect, Ali Konduga, under psychiatric investigation.
‘I woke to feel my cousin’s hand under my nightie’
From time to time, I spend the holidays with my mum’s elder sister and I used to get on well with my cousins. But early last year, I woke to feel the hand, of my eldest cousin under my nightie.
Doctor mistakes, removes herdsman’s kidney as tumour
Gov. Muhammadu Bindow of Adamawa state has personally intervened in situation involving a doctor in a private clinic in Yola who conducted a surgery on Hamman, a 23-year-old herdsman from Fufore Local Government Area of the state where he removed his kidney after mistaken it for tumour.
PDP Crisis: We will come out stronger – Makarfi
The chairman of the caretaker committee of the Peoples Democratic Party, Senator Ahmed Makarfi has stated that despite the problem being faced by the party, it will come out stronger.
From attempting suicide in Nigeria to Miss Transsexual final
Miss SaHHara was born in the wrong country, and in the wrong body. Repression in her native Nigeria almost drove her to suicide, but this weekend she was cruising down the runway in a cream dress – one of several finalists at the Miss Trans Star International beauty pageant in Barcelona, Europe’s main such event.
Militants responsible for recession, says Osinbajo
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Monday blamed the current economic recession in the country on the militancy in the Niger Delta region.
Man nabbed for defiling 12-year-old boy in Kano Islamic Centre
A Kano Magistrates’ Court sitting in Audu Bako Secretariat on Monday ordered the remand of a 25-year-old man, Mansir Sani, for allegedly defiling a 12 year-old boy.
FCTA Minister summons Police Commissioner, Commandant, Brigade of Guards, others
MINISTER of the Federal Capital Territory Administration, FCTA, Malam Muhammad Musa Bello yesterday summoned the Commissioner of Police, FCT, Mohammed Mustapha to an emergency security meeting as part of moves to nip in the bud, security challenges in the Federal Capital Territory.
No barrier can stop migration – Mexican president to UN
Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto on Monday said barriers could not stop the movement of migrants and the fusion of cultures.
