UNILORIN don discovers use of eggshell to tackle pollution
Prof. Omodele Eletta of the Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Ilorin, has discovered the use of eggshell, coconut shell, sawdust and croaker fish scales for the prevention of environmental pollution. Eletta disclosed this in her Inaugural Lecture entitled: “Bad yet good: Rummaging and Combatting for Future Water and Land Security”. The don, who lectures at the Faculty of Engineering, also listed...
Nigeria’s Ihekweazu heads WHO’s pandemic hub in Germany
Director-General, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu, will head the World Health Organization (WHO)’s newly-inaugurated Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence based in Berlin, Germany. Outgoing German Chancellor, Dr. Angela Merkel, and the WHO Director-General, Dr. Tedros Ghebreyesus, inaugurated the hub on Wednesday to better prepare and protect the world from global disease threats. The hub aims at...
Buhari to Rotary Club: Thanks for spending $268m to fight Polio
President Muhammadu Buhari has thanked Rotary Club for its various interventions in the health sector, particularly putting in $268 million in the fight against Polio. The president gave the commendation when he received Rotary International President, Mr. Shekhar Mehta and some officials, at the State House, Abuja on Monday. According to the Nigerian leader, the Federal Government will continue drawing from...
30 stranded patients get Okowa’s wife succour, N7.8m bills paid
Thirty stranded patients at the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Asaba and the Asaba Specialist Hospital (ASH) have heaved a sigh of relief. The relief came as Wife of Delta Governor, Dame Edith Okowa, paid their medical bills worth N7.8 million. Speaking at a brief ceremony to hand over the cheques to representatives of both hospitals on Tuesday in Asaba, Okowa said the...
Obi donates N100m to Catholic Nursing, Midwifery school
Former Governor of Anambra, Mr. Peter Obi, has donated N100 million to Bishop Shanahan Specialist Hospital Nsukka (BSSHN) to upgrade its School of Nursing and Midwifery to a College. BSSHN is a missionary hospital owned and managed by Nsukka Catholic Diocese. Obi made the donation in Nsukka, Nsukka Local Government Area of Enugu State on Tuesday when he paid a visit to...
Strike: FG denies owing doctor monthly salary
The Federal Government says no doctor or health worker in Nigeria is owed monthly salary. The Minster of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, said this at the opening of the meeting of the Presidential Committee on Salaries with the leadership of the Joint Health Sector Union (JOHESU) on Tuesday in Abuja. Ngige said the clarification becomes necessary to counter the...
Osinbajo heads Health Reform C’ttee
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the setting up of a Health Sector Reform Committee for development and implementation of a Health Sector Reform programme for Nigeria. The committee, to be chaired by Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, would also work in collaboration with State Governments and the FCT administration. Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, confirmed this development in a...
Adetifa replaces Ihekweazu as NCDC DG
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Dr. Ifedayo Morayo Adetifa, as the new Director General of Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). Adetifa replaces Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu, who has been appointed to head the World Health Organization (WHO)’s newly-inaugurated Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence based in Berlin, Germany. Until his appointment Adetifa was an Associate Professor of Infectious...
NHIS, NYSC sign MoU for corps members’ health insurance cover
The National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) and the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to give corps members health insurance cover during service. The MoU was signed by the Executive Secretary of NHIS, Prof. Mohammed Sambo and the Director-General of NYSC, Brig.-Gen. Shuaibu Ibrahim, in Abuja on Tuesday. Sambo said that the insurance cover would...
Outbreak of vaccine-derived polio reported in Nigeria
A massive outbreak of vaccine-derived polio has been reported in Nigeria. The Representative of the United Nation’s Children Fund (UNICEF) in Nigeria, Dr. Peter Hawkins, disclosed this in his remarks at the third Quarter Northern Traditional Leaders Committee on Primary Health Cares (PHC) review meeting on Monday in Abuja. The Vaccine-derived cases are rare, and they differ from wild cases. There are...
