The National Obstetric Fistula Centre (NOFIC) in Ebonyi has said that early girl child marriage and exposure to sexual intercourse before age 16, is a predisposing factor to cervical cancer. The Medical Director of NOFIC, Prof. Johnson Obuna, made the remark on Friday, during the flag-off of a Free Cervical …
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26 New COVID-19 Cases, 410 Discharged And 0 Deaths On June 5
26 new cases of COVID19Nigeria; Akwa Ibom-8 Cross River-8 Lagos-8 Bayelsa-1 Kaduna-1 Today’s report includes: *Seven states with 0 cases reported: FCT, Nasarawa, Plateau, Rivers, Sokoto and Taraba. *400 community recoveries from Lagos State managed in line with guidelines.
Read More »48 New COVID-19 Cases, 63 Discharged And 0 Deaths On June 4
48 new cases of COVID19Nigeria; Lagos-16 Yobe-16 Kano-8 Gombe-3 Akwa Ibom-1 Delta-1 FCT-1 Kaduna-1 Rivers-1
Read More »Hunger, Diseases Dominate North-west, Zamfara In Crisis, MSF Raises The Alarm
An international medical organisation, Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders), on Thursday painted a gloomy picture of the humanitarian crisis in the North-West, saying the area was dominated by hunger and diseases. The MSF stated this in a statement issued from a hospital it supported in Anka, Zamfara State. The …
Read More »122 New COVID-19 Cases, 2575 Discharged And 18 Deaths On June 3
122 new cases of #COVID19Nigeria; Lagos-105 Imo-4 Kaduna-4 Akwa Ibom-3 FCT-2 Delta-1 Rivers-1 Oyo-1 Ekiti-1 Today’s report includes: *Six states with 0 cases reported: Plateau, Nasarawa, Sokoto, Ogun, Osun and Ondo. *Backlogs of data due to ongoing data harmonization from Lagos, Delta and Benue States.
Read More »25 New COVID-19 Cases, 11 Discharged And 0 Deaths On June 2
25 new cases of #COVID19Nigeria; Lagos-10 Taraba-9 Kaduna-3 Rivers-2 Kwara-1
Read More »WHO Approves China’s Sinovac COVID-19 Vaccine
“Today, I’m happy to announce that the Sinovac-CoronaVac vaccine has been given WHO Emergency Use Listing after being found to be safe, effective and quality assured following two doses of the inactivated vaccine”-@DrTedros #COVID19 “Furthermore, the easy storage requirements of CoronaVac make it very suitable for low-resource settings. It is …
Read More »17 New COVID-19 Cases, 1154 Discharged And 0 Deaths On June 1
17 new cases of #COVID19Nigeria; Lagos-8 Rivers-5 Kano-2 Kaduna-1 Plateau-1
Read More »NECO Registrar, Godswill Obioma Died Of Natural Causes – Family
NECO registrar, Godswill Obioma has died of Natural causes, Newsextra24 can authoritatively confirm. Contrary to widespread reports of an assassination, Family Sources revealed to this newspaper that Obioma died after a brief illness. The first son of the deceased, Godswill Obioma II, in a statement to Mustapha K. Abdul, the …
Read More »203 New COVID-19 Cases, 2223 Discharged And 28 Deaths On May 31
203 new cases of #COVID19Nigeria; Benue-178 Lagos-10 Ondo-6 FCT-4 Kaduna-4 Plateau-1
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