Health

Danish midfielder, Christen Eriksen is alive and well after collapsing on the pitch during a match with Finland on Saturday in the ongoing EURO 2020 competition. Fans and officials were sent into a panic after Eriksen fell forwards unchallenged and became unresponsive. The team’s medical team quickly rushed to the …

All attempts are being made to resuscitate him

  NDLEA intercepts 100,000 bottles of codeine syrup at Onne Port . 146.95kg illicit drug seized at Abuja airport No fewer than 100,000 bottles of codeine syrup with a total weight of 15,325kilograms have been intercepted and seized by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, at the Onne seaport, …

8 new cases of #COVID19Nigeria Akwa Ibom-4 Rivers-4 167,059 confirmed 163,436 discharged 2,117 deaths Today’s report includes: ✅ 6 states with 0 cases reported: FCT, Kaduna, Kano, Nasarawa, Oyo, and Sokoto.  

64 new cases of #COVID19Nigeria Yobe-18 Lagos-16 Delta-10 Katsina-7 Gombe-5 Edo-2 Kano-2 Rivers-2 Kaduna-1 Kwara-1 166,982 confirmed 163,331 discharged 2,117 deaths Today’s report includes: ✅Backlog of data from Delta State are recorded from 27th May to 7th June 2021 ✅ 5 states with 0 cases reported: FCT, Plateau, Nasarawa, Sokoto …

102 new cases of #COVID19Nigeria Ondo-68 Bayelsa-17 Kaduna-5 Lagos-3 Rivers-3 Akwa Ibom-2 Gombe-2 Ebonyi-1 Oyo-1 166,918 confirmed 163,259 discharged 2,117 deaths Today’s report includes: ✅Bayelsa cases are backlog data recorded between 9th-25th February 2021 ✅8 states with 0 cases reported: FCT, Plateau, Nasarawa, Sokoto, Imo, Ekiti, Osun, and Ogun

The Governor of Ondo State, Rotimi Akeredolu, has urged the Federal Government to jettison traditional orientation and “achaic” sentiment that cannabis is a “devil’s plant” by setting up legal machineries in motion to enable its use in Nigeria. He said “cannabis is a multi-billion naira industry that can help diversify the …

11 new cases of ##COVID19Nigeria Lagos-9 FCT-1 Kano-1 166,767 confirmed 163,096 discharged 2,117 deaths Today’s report includes: *100 community recoveries from Enugu state managed in line with guidelines *10 states with 0 cases reported: Ekiti, Enugu, Kaduna, Nasarawa, Ondo, Osun, Oyo, Plateau, Rivers, and Sokoto A breakdown of cases by …

A consultant anatomic and forensic pathologist, Prof. John Obafunwa on Saturday told the Lagos state judicial panel on restitution for victims of SARS related abuses and other matters, that the coroners office conducted post mortem autopsies on 99 bodies between the October 20 and 27. Prof Obafunwa made this disclosure …

Forty years ago, on June 5, 1981, the first cases of what became known as AIDS were reported in the United States. The Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), the U.S. national public health agency, reported, “Five cases of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) among previously healthy young men in …