The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) in its recently published public health advisory disclosed that at least 30 people have been confirmed dead across 30 states of the federation, with over 1000 suspected cases recorded in 2024.
Activists and community leaders have called on oil company, Shell; to clean up communities it had allegedly polluted in the cause of its oil extraction before leaving Nigeria.
Medical doctors under the auspices of Association of Resident Doctors, ARD, at the University College Hospital, UCH, Ibadan in Oyo State have commenced a three-day strike over alleged assault on one of their members by relatives of a patient in the hospital.
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has shut down the Eziukwu Market, popularly known as Cemetery Market, in Aba, Abia State, following production and selling of dangerous fake beverages.
The acting Head, Media and Publicity, Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission (ICRC), Manji Yarling, has disclosed the collaboration of the Austrian and the Federal Government of Nigeria on Transport Infrastructure and other Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs).
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has revealed in its safety audit report, incidences of sexual violence against children living in some Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps in Benue State.
