Health

‘FG budgets N1,000 daily feeding allowance for prisoners, corpers get N650’ The National Youth Service Corps has lamented that inmates in the facilities of the Nigerian Correctional Service feed better than corps members. The Director-General of the NYSC, Brigadier General Shuaibu Ibrahim, who stated this when he appeared before the …

116 new cases of #COVID19Nigeria; Imo-53 Plateau-30 FCT-10 Kano-9 Kaduna-8 Lagos-3 Rivers-3 212,627 confirmed 204,249 discharged 2,905 deaths Today’s report includes: ➖30 cases reported for Plateau state are from November 5th (13) and 6th (17) ➖ 0 cases reported from Bayelsa, Delta, Edo and Sokoto A breakdown of cases by …

LIPOSUCTION: A British woman who travelled to Turkey to have liposuction surgery has died two days after the operation took place. Diarra Akua Eunice Brown, 28, had travelled to Istanbul to have the surgery at a clinic in the suburb of Bahcelievler on October 22. The operation was initially a …

87 new cases of #COVID19Nigeria; Zamfara-29 FCT-25 Rivers-11 Kano-8 Bauchi-5 Gombe-4 Lagos-3 Jigawa-2 212,446 confirmed 204,047 discharged 2,902 deaths Today’s report includes 0 cases reported from Delta, Edo, Sokoto, and Taraba States A breakdown of cases by state can be found via http://covid19.ncdc.gov.ng #TakeResponsibility

Lagos State governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu visited survivors of the Ikoyi building collapse at the Lagos General hospital today, Newsextra24 reports. He shared the photos of his visit via his Facebook page and wrote; “Ealier this morning, I visited the survivors of the Ikoyi collapsed building at General Hospital where they …

209 new cases of #COVID19Nigeria; Gombe-109 FCT-21 Rivers-21 Lagos-13 Bauchi-9 Ondo-9 Plateau-9 Enugu-7 Benue-5 Oyo-4 Ekiti-1 Ogun-1 212,359 confirmed 204,010 discharged 2,900 deaths Today’s report includes: ▪️109 cases reported from Gombe state which includes backlog from Oct 16th (17), 17th (6), 19th (10), 20th ( 8 ), 21st(13), 22nd (19), …

President Muhammadu Buhari has left Glasgow, Scotland for London, England to see his doctors, Newsextra24 has gathered. Buhari had on Sunday travelled to Glasgow to participate in the 26th Conference of Parties (COP26) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). According to UN, the event which started …

N270,000 Bill: Family abandons 17-yr-old mother of twins at Delta hospital A 17-year-old girl, Wehinmi Samson, has been abandoned at a private hospital in Sapele, Delta State over N270,000 unpaid bills, one month after she gave birth to twins at the hospital. Wehinmi told newsextra24, yesterday, in Sapele that the …

The Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, Professor Ibrahim Gambari has laid the foundation for the construction of the Presidential wing of the State House Clinic, Abuja. President Buhari recently approved a site for the construction of a VIP wing of the State House clinic to be cited within …

Accountant-General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris, Tuesday, said that his office proposed N36 million in the 2022 budget to combat antelopes, snakes and other reptiles that trouble them. He also said that his office would incur extra charges in the payment of personnel attached to Nigeria’s foreign missions and embassies …