Health

576 New COVID-19 Cases, 416 Discharged And 8 Deaths On January 2 576 new cases of #COVID19Nigeria; Lagos-277 FCT-90 Oyo-51 Nasarawa-49 Sokoto-23 Anambra-14 Bauchi-11 Imo-11 Kano-11 Edo-10 Plateau-10 Ogun-9 Osun-5 Jigawa-3 Rivers-2 Highlights On the 2nd of January 2021, 576 new confirmed cases and 8 deaths were recorded in Nigeria …

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged President Muhammadu Buhari “to direct the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice Mr Abubakar Malami, SAN, and appropriate anti-corruption agencies to probe allegations that N3,836,685,213.13 of public funds meant for the Federal Ministry of Health, teaching hospitals, medical centres, …

Average treatment per patient costs over N3m annually I spent N4.5m for kidney transplant – Patient Only kidney care policy can save their lives—experts An estimated 20 million Nigerians are living with kidney disease. A good number of these patients are languishing under the huge cost of treatment and medication …

1074 New COVID-19 Cases, 660 Discharged And 5 Deaths On January 1 1074 new cases of #COVID19Nigeria; Lagos-642 Kaduna-92 Rivers-78 FCT-66 Gombe-66 Kano-35 Ogun-31 Katsina-22 Plateau-20 Abia-7 Niger-4 Oyo-4 Akwa Ibom-3 Delta-2 Osun-2 Highlights On the 1st of January 2021, 1074 new confirmed cases and 5 deaths were recorded in …

The frantic bid to save Femi Odekunle from COVID-19 complications yielded donations and pledges of over 170 cylinders of oxygen from his family, friends and close associates, Newsextra24 has learnt. Mr Odekunle, a professor of criminology and member of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC), battled the highly infectious …

Actress Etinosa Idemudia, who made a surprise announcement days ago that she welcomed a child, has revealed that she battled PCOS and defeated it before welcoming her child, Newsextra24 reports. She shared a photo of her rocking her baby bump and revealed that she ended 2020 on a “high note”. …

President-Elect of the United States, Joe Biden, has named a Nigerian-American, Osaremen Okolo as his COVID-19 policy advisor. Okolo was among 100 names announced as additional members of the White House staff by the Biden transition team on Wednesday. Biden is expected to be sworn-in on January 20. Okolo, born …

When the year 2020 popped out of the womb of time, nobody knew that it was going to be what Yoruba people call Ogbologbo. Rough and tough. Unpredictable. Hungry and angry, consuming anything and everything it could lay its jaws on. Across America, Europe, Asia, Africa, indeed, all continents, time, …

Nollywood actress Ini Dima-Okojie has opened up about her harrowing battle with Fibroid, Newsextra24 reports. The 30-year-old shared a video sharing her experience in an Instagram post on Wednesday. She said she found out she had fibroid in 2017. “I found out I had fibroids in 2017, I remember freaking …

Lagos State Government has denied reports that it would fine violators of the 12 am to 4 am curfew on December 31, 2020 between N20,000 and N500,000, Newsextra24 reports. A statement by the government posted on Wednesday to Twitter said the Commissioner for Information and Strategy Gbenga Omotoso did not …