Health

The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has barred unvaccinated corps members from its camps nationwide.NYSC director-general Shuaibu Ibrahim made the announcement while addressing 2021 Batch “C” Stream Two Corps Members and Camp Officials. Ibrahim said the measure will take effect ...

The Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN) says all medical graduates who schooled abroad and seek to take the council’s assessment examination will undergo a six-month mandatory attachment programme.Applicants who are Nigerian citizens are required to pay a non-refundable ...

Leke Baiyewu 25 November 2021 The House of Representatives has resolved to seek how Nigeria can develop traditional and alternative medicine towards improving health care service delivery in the country. At the plenary on Thursday, the House especially mandated its ...

Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun state has joined the growing list of eminent Nigerians who visited the National Leader, All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu in London. Scores of eminent Nigerians, including President Muhammadu Buhari had visited the former ...

Straight to the point, I’m a chronic addict of alcohol and cigarettes. I use them heavily and that has caused me a lot of health issues. I’m struggling but couldn’t quit. I smoke and drink at the detriment of my ...

Please let us discuss briefly the underlying cause of type II diabetes.The fats that are built up in our cells clogged our cells which prevent Insulin from taking the blood sugar or glucose to our cellsWhen the cells that are ...

The National Industrial Court, Abuja division, has ordered the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) to suspend its nationwide strike. The doctors had commenced the strike on August 1 over “irregular payment of salaries”, among other issues. Efforts by the ...

Dayo Ojerinde5 August 2021 A 39-year-old man, Ibietan Oluwafijimi, is in need of N7m for a kidney transplant. The National Secretary of the Aquinas College Akure Old Students’ Association, Mr Lanre Abiodun, in a letter, appealed to members of the ...

It is neither scientifically, religiously or physical possible to separate human emotions from thoughts and reaction to events. Practically, we are made of hormones and enzymes which are capable of triggering not just physical responses, but also psychological reactions. As ...

By Samuel Oamen Few days ago, a frontline health worker at the National Hospital, Abuja Dr Cyprian Ngong, became the first Nigerian to receive a dose of the Oxford–AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine in Nigeria. Other prominent Nigerians and politicians have followed ...