HYPERTENSION: Add less salt to food, NHF tells Nigerians

HYPERTENSION: Add less salt to food, NHF tells Nigerians

AS Nigeria joined the rest of the World to mark Salt Awareness Week for the first time, the Nigerian Heart Foundation, NHF, has called on food manufacturing companies including restaurants to add less salt in foods as high intake of salt can lead to high blood pressure, a major contributor to cardiovascular diseases and stroke.
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Uber supplements existing transportation networks

Uber supplements existing transportation networks

The Uber App is a software application service, Uber is also a technology company that connects riders with drivers, and through a smartphone app. Uber’s mission is to help people get a ride at the push of a button – everywhere and for everyone.

‘Cases of HIV, STIs  rising among youths in Lagos’

‘Cases of HIV, STIs rising among youths in Lagos’

Leadership Initiative for Youth Empowerment (LIFE) has raised alarm over the high rates of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and other sexually Transmitted Infections, STI, among youths in Lagos state, even as it called on youths to access primary healthcare centres rather than resorting to traditional methods of treatment

Nominations open for 4th Nigerian Healthcare Awards

Nominations open for 4th Nigerian Healthcare Awards

NOMINATION for the 4th edition of the Nigerian Healthcare Excellence Awards (NHEA 2017) has opened even as stakeholders in the health sector have been advised to visit www.nigeriahealthawards.com.ng to either make their nominations online or download the nomination form.

Police foil robbery attempt on commuters by herdsmen in Delta

Police foil robbery attempt on commuters by herdsmen in Delta

LESS than two months after a gang of armed herdsmen waylaid commuters on the Agadama-Bomadi Road in Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State and robbed them of their valuables, security operatives in the area, yesterday, dispersed a gang of herdsmen who attempted to rob travelers on the same road.

330KVA project: A’Ibom clan leaders allegedly threaten c’ttee members for rejecting bribe

330KVA project: A’Ibom clan leaders allegedly threaten c’ttee members for rejecting bribe

MEMBERS of the Ad Hoc Committee drawn from the 12 Ukpum Ete villages in Ikot Abasi Local Government Area, Akwa Ibom State, inaugurated to oversee the controversial 330KVA Ikot Ekpene-Ikot Abasi Transmission Line Project, being executed by National Integrated Power Project, NIPP and Niger Delta Power Holding Company Limited, have raised the alarm that some fraudulent community leaders were hoodwinking youths to terrorise them for refusing to accept bribes.

Skye Bank rewards customers today

Skye Bank rewards customers today

Skye Bank Plc, will today reward its customers with brand new car, N1 million as well as cash and consolation prizes to close its 90-days “Receive and Win” promotion in Lagos.

Mortuary attendant remanded  in prison for beheading corpse

Mortuary attendant remanded in prison for beheading corpse

An Iyaganku magistrate’s court, sitting in Ibadan, has remanded a 57-year-old mortuary attendant, Muritala Raimi, who works at the University College Hospital, Ibadan, in Agodi Prison, for allegedly stealing a human skull from his workplace.

Anambra 2017: NARD President condemns attacks on Nwoye

Anambra 2017: NARD President condemns attacks on Nwoye

The President of the National Association of Resident Doctors, NARD, Dr. John Onyebueze, has tasked politicians in Anambra State to move away from mounting campaigns of calumny against doctors and other rivals in the Anambra governorship contest.

Excitement, as ex-envoy builds new city for Bakassi refugees

Excitement, as ex-envoy builds new city for Bakassi refugees

SINCE the expulsion of the people of Bakassi by Cameroon from their ancestral home in 2010, following the transfer of the Peninsula to the nation’s neighbour, a development that automatically turned them into internally displaced persons, the unfortunate locals have been living pathetically in makeshift houses at the camp allocated to them at Ekpri Ikang, Akpabuyo Local Government Area.

Banks lend 0.1% of total credit to MSMEs

Banks lend 0.1% of total credit to MSMEs

TOTAL loans granted by banks to Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in Nigeria amounted to just over 0.1 percent of total banks’ credits to the private sector over the past five years.