To prevent Sickle Cell Disease, know your genotype before marriage- Professor Michael Kehinde
Who has Sickle Cell Disease, SCD, and why are some people born with this disease? In the view of Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Lagos, CMUL, Professor Michael Kehinde, not less than 300,000 children are born with one form of SCD every year mostly, in sub-Saharan Africa, where malaria is common. Kehinde, a Specialist Physician and Clinical Haematologist who for more than two decades, headed the Clinical Haematology Unit at the Lagos University teaching Hospital, LUTH, says parents who fail to verify their genotype before they get married, are to be blamed when they produce children with SCD.
Bus drivers barricade road over alleged killing by policewoman
Commercial bus drivers, yesterday, barricaded the Isheri/Liasu Road in Lagos, protesting the alleged killing of one of their own, weekend, by a police woman attached to the Igando division.
82-yr-old man commits suicide in Ondo
AN 82 year old great grand–father, Adegoke Oriola, has reportedly committed suicide by hanging himself in Ondo City, Ondo State.
Police arrest 5 pregnant women with plans to sell babies on delivery
Five pregnant young women, allegedly arrested by the Rivers State Police command at a baby factory in Umuikpe community , Isiala Ngwa South, Abia State, were paraded, yesterday, for planning to sell their babies to the owner of the place after delivery.
PDP groups unite against Modu Sherriff
The Ahmed Makarfi-led caretaker Committee and the Ibrahim Mantu-led faction of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, are to meet, tomorrow, to present a common front against Senator Ali Modu Sheriff.
Poor economy: Govs should think out of the box — Amosun
Governor Ibikunke Amosun of Ogun State has advised his colleagues and indeed, the Nigerian government to be more creative, saying it was the only way out the current economic and financial challenges be-devilling the country.
