Friday, 27 December, 2024

Category: Health


The Chief Medical Director of Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital Nnewi NAUTH Prof Joe Ugboaja was honoured with a chieftancy title of ‘Ife Chukwunyere’ by the Monarch of the Ancient Kingdom of Omogho, HRH Igwe Sir Raphael Offor, Ide II Read more…


Plateau State governor, Caleb Mutfwang, has said that the latest series of attacks in the state were cases of terrorism and not farmer-herder clashes. In his New Year message, Governor Mutfwang described the recent attacks on communities in Bokkos and Read more…


South Korea’s opposition Democratic Party leader Lee Jae-myung was stabbed in the neck during a visit to the southern port city of Busan on Tuesday, the Yonhap news agency reported. Lee was attacked by an unidentified man while touring the Read more…


Around a dozen Russian cities have canceled public New Year’s celebrations in the wake of a massive Ukrainian attack on the border city of Belgorod, their mayors announced on Sunday. Kiev launched a barrage of rockets targeting the city center Read more…


Still reeling from the gruesome killings of over 160 people in Bokkos and Barakin-Ladi local government areas of Plateau State, gunmen struck again in Kwahaslalek community in Mangu local government area of the state and killed three people. Another three Read more…


Burundian President Evariste Ndayishimiye called for same-sex couples to be publicly stoned during a press conference on Friday, suggesting the general population could help carry out the punishment.  “Personally, I think if we see these kinds of individuals in Burundi, Read more…


From Ifeoma Ejiofor Barely twenty four hours after he was honoured with a chieftaincy title by Igwe Nnewi, HRH, Dr KON Orizu 111(JP), the Chief Medical Director (CMD) of Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital (NAUTH) Nnewi, Prof Joseph Odirichukwu Ugboaja Read more…


A 23-year-old girl, Amanda Uchechi Ugo of Umumbiri in Ahaizu Mbaise Local Government Area of Imo State, confessed killing her police boyfriend last Tuesday. Amanda said during police interrogation that she shot the Police Corporal, Cosmas Ugwu, who was her Read more…


For the umpteenth time, violence was visited in over 30 communities across the Bokkos, Mangu, and Barkin Ladi local government areas in Plateau State. By the time the dust settled, almost 200 persons were killed, over 1,000 houses burnt and Read more…


As part of the celebration marking the Diamond Jubilee and 98th birthday of HRH Igwe Orizu III, the Igwe Orizu ICT Centre was commissioned and donated to NAUTH as part of the ongoing radical infrastructural transformation of the institution by Read more…


The Management Committee Chairman of Bokkos Local Government Area of Plateau State, yesterday, said 148 people were killed in the Christmas Eve attack in the council. This came as the death toll in the massacre in three local government areas Read more…


IN the words of the Ondo State Government, it was indeed a sad day in Ondo, yesterday, as Governor Rotimi Akeredolu, SAN, died exactly 190 days after he was first flown out of the state to Germany for medication. He Read more…