Category: Health
Police arrest doctor over murder and organ harvesting
22 Feb 2023
Kwara State Police command has paraded the chief medical director of Kaiama General Hospital, Dr. Abass Adio Adeyemi, 36, over alleged murder of four persons and organ harvesting. The state police commissioner, Mr Paul Odama, who paraded Adeyemi said that the command was closing in on other members of the syndicate involved in the crime. […]
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80 years old woman burnt to death as apartment caught fire
22 Feb 2023
The Kwara State Fire Service has recovered the body of an 80-year-old woman who died in a building gutted by fire in Ilorin, the state capital Head of Media and Publicity department of the service, Hassan Adekunle, in a statement disclosed that the fire incident occurred at number 43 Adegboye Street behind the Federal Secretariat, […]
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17 people survive a boat capsize in Lagos
21 Feb 2023
A boat capsized near the Third Mainland Bridge near the Bariga ferry terminal in Lagos State on Monday, killing 17 people. The passengers were on their way to Ebute Ero from the state’s Ikorodu area when the incident occurred. While confirming the incident, the Lagos State Waterways Authority stated that its officers and some first […]
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Nigeria records 2445 preventable death daily
21 Feb 2023
At least 2,445 women and children die every day from preventable causes in Nigeria, according to data from the Federal Ministry of Health on the National Maternal and Child Health. The data obtained by our correspondent revealed that 70 per cent of the deaths are preventable. According to the data, “145 women die every day […]
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NDLEA recovers 2.6 million opioids in three states; Chadian and others are arrested
20 Feb 2023
During interdiction operations in three states over the last week, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) agents intercepted 2,684,900 tramadol pills and seized other pharmaceutical opioids. The NDLEA’s spokesman, Mr Femi Babafemi, stated this in a statement issued on Sunday in Abuja. Babafemi stated that 250,000 tramadol and exol-5 pills, as well as 1800ml of […]
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NDLEA intercepts drugs heading to UK, Saudi Arabia and other places
20 Feb 2023
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have intercepted consignments of illicit drugs including cocaine, methamphetamine and its precursor chemical, ephedrine going to the United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, New Zealand and Cyprus at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Lagos; Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja and some courier companies. At least three traders […]
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Pregnant woman dies in hospital after doctor refuses to attend to her over transfer alert delay
20 Feb 2023
A pregnant woman in Kano, Shema’u Sani Labaran, has died in the Abdullahi Wase Specialist Hospital over alleged negligence from doctors as a result of the new naira policy crisis. The late woman’s husband, Malam Bello Fancy, said her death was as a result of delay in transfer made to the bank and that the […]
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Car accident claims the life of a family of five in Lagos-Badagry expressway
15 Feb 2023
An accident which occurred on Sunday night, February 12, 2023, along Lagos-Badagry expressway has claimed the lives of a father, mother and their three children when their Toyota Sienna rammed into a truck parked on the roadside The Unit Commander, Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC), Suleiman Taiwo, Badagry, said the accident occurred around Agemowo, Buhari […]
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Police in india arrest Nigerian student for supplying heroin
15 Feb 2023
The anti-narcotics cell of Panchkula in Haryana, India have arrested a Nigerian student for allegedly supplying heroin to drug peddlers. The 29-year-old Nigerian national identified as Nwosu Echezoma, alias Amaica, was arrested on Sunday, February 12, 2023. Heroin weighing 15.56 gm was also recovered from the accused, who is pursuing BPharma from a college in […]
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