Category: Health

  • Biden Diagnosed With Aggressive Prostate Cancer

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    FORMER President Joe Biden has been diagnosed with prostate cancer, his office said Sunday. Biden was seen by doctors last week after urinary symptoms and a prostate nodule were found. He was diagnosed with prostate cancer on Friday, with the cancer cells having spread to the bone. “While this represents a more aggressive form of…

  • UBTH Mortuary Scandal: Corruption Rocks Hospital As processing, “storage” fees, diverted

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    Eben Enasco Reporting A shocking scandal has rocked the University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH), under the leadership of Professor Darlington Ewaen Obaseki, with allegations of N40,000 racketeering involving mortuary staff for processing” and “storage” fees of corpse. The official fees for processing” and “storage” are between N60, 000 and N70,000 payable through the accounting…

  • Over 16,000 Nigerian Doctors Travel Overseas To Seek Greener Pasture – Health Minister Reveals

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    THE coordinating minister for health and social welfare, Ali Pate, has asserted that more than 16,000 Nigerian doctors have emigrated over the past five to seven years in pursuit of better opportunities overseas. The Minister made these remarks in Abuja on Tuesday during the seventh annual capacity-building workshop organized by the Association of Medical Councils…

  • Multiple Murder At Seraphic Hospital: A Disturbing Pattern Of Neglect And Governments Annoying Silence, By Erasmus Ikhide

    Multiple Murder At Seraphic Hospital: A Disturbing Pattern Of Neglect And Governments Annoying Silence, By Erasmus Ikhide

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      SERAPHIC Hospital owned by a miracle-faking pastor, Mr. Ebuka Obi in Lagos has exposed the inherit quackery, banal hypnotism and the incompetent government health regulatory agency in Nigeria for what it is: absurdity! A series of tragic events has unfolded at Seraphic Hospital and Maternity Home in Lagos, exposing a disturbing pattern of neglect…

  • Nigeria Seeks Death Penalty For Fake Drug Trade

    Nigeria Seeks Death Penalty For Fake Drug Trade

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    NIGERIA’S drug enforcement agency is calling for life imprisonment or the death penalty for those involved in the trade of counterfeit medicines and illegal pharmaceutical drugs, as the country undertakes its largest-ever crackdown on fake medications, Reuters reported on Wednesday. According to Mojisola Adeyeye, Director-General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), the latest operation…

  • Kogi Assembly Approves N582.4bn Budget Proposal

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    KOGI House of Assembly on Tuesday approved  N582,404,119.489 budget proposal for 2025. The lawmakers passed the bill in Lokoja after a presentation by the House Standing Committee on Appropriation, Budget Monitoring, and Economic Planning. At the clause-by-clause consideration by the sub-Committee of Supply, the Speaker, Mr Aliyu Yusuf, said the bill had authorised recurrent expenditure…

  • Besigye ‘kidnapped’ and Held in Military Jail, Wife Claims

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    KIZZA Besigye, the prominent Ugandan opposition leader, has allegedly been kidnapped and is now being held in a military prison in Kampala, according to his wife, Winnie Byanyima. Byanyima took to X (formerly Twitter) on Tuesday, revealing that Besigye had been seized during a book launch in Nairobi, Kenya, last Saturday. The 68-year-old former doctor…

  • Namibia to Hold General Elections on November 27

    Namibia to Hold General Elections on November 27

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    NAMIBIA will hold its presidential and parliamentary elections on Wednesday, November 27, declared a public holiday to facilitate high voter turnout. The announcement was made by President Nangolo Mbumba, who assumed office in February following the passing of Hage Geingob, Namibia’s former president. In a statement released by the Namibian Presidency late on Friday, Mbumba encouraged…

  • Court Acquits Six #EndSARS Protesters

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    THE Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court has acquitted six individuals who faced charges related to public peace disturbances during the 2020 #Endsars protests. TRUTHNG reports that the individuals acquitted on Thursday are Daniel Joyinbo, Adigun Sodiq, Kehinde Shola, Salaudeen Kamilu, Sodiq Usseni, and Azeez Isiaka. In a plea bargain arrangement, the defendants admitted guilt to a…

  • “I am alive”, Senator Ned Nwoko Dismisses Death Rumour

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      SENATOR Ned Nwoko (PDP-Delta) has dismissed reports that did the rounds in the social media about his death in Switzerland. The representative of Delta North Senatorial District dismissed what he described as the malicious report in a statement he signed and issued on Friday in Abuja. Nwoko said that the reports were entirely false…