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$21.8bn Unremitted Funds: Nigeria Lost the Size of 2017 Budget to NNPC

On April 4, 2017, the Nigerian Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) dropped a bom…

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Revealed: The Nasty Infections You Can Pick Up At The Gym – And How To Avoid Deadly Bacteria Lingering On Your Workout Gear

Because of the communal styles of gyms, it is easy to come into contact with harmful strands of ba…

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Reconstitute MDCN Board Now, Postgraduate Medical College President Urges FG

The president, National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria, Ijanikin, Lagos, Prof. Ademola Ol…

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WHO Launches New NCDs Progress Monitor

Governments must step up efforts to control noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) to meet globally agree…

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International Council of Nurses Congratulates First Cohort of Graduates from Global Nursing Policy Leadership Institute

The first International Council of Nurses’ (ICN) Global Nursing Policy Leadership Institute …

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WHO Urges Yemen To Accept Vaccines As Cholera Crisis Deepens

The World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday urged Yemen to approve cholera vaccinations it has o…

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Canadian Nurses to be Included in the Regulated Health Professions Act

I am pleased to announce that regulations are now in place to bring the registered nursing profess…

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Kenya: Nyeri Governor Says Striking Nurses Won’t be Sacked

Nyeri Governor Wahome Gakuru has said he will not fire nurses who have been on strike for three mo…

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Flood: Malaria, Hypertension Cases High in Benue IDP Camps

It was 2:56 pm on Tuesday, a young woman lay on a bed apparently asleep in one of the rooms conver…

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Our Labs at Par with International Labs— NAFDAC DG

The Acting Director General of the National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control (…

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NMCN Desk Officers Training North East Central Zone Kicked Off Today

The Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria today kicked off its first two-day training program o…

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FG Confirms New Case of Yellow Fever in Kwara

The Federal Ministry of Health has confirmed a new case of Yellow Fever in a young girl in Oke Owa…

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UN Seeks $10 Million as Nigeria Cholera Outbreak Worsens

At least 44 people have now died in a cholera outbreak in northeast Nigeria, the United Nations sa…

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NMA Declares 7-day Warning Strike In Osun

The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) in Osun State has ordered its members to proceed on an imme…

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Kenya Counties Begin Firing of Striking Nurses, Advertise their positions

County governments have begun advertising positions for the nurses who are on strike even as the c…

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Pregnant Woman Tied up, Blindfolded, Suffocated to Dead

A man was arrested in France on Sunday over the gruesome murder of a heavily pregnant woman who wa…

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Cure for Cancer: Understanding Herbal Claims Versus Chemotherapy

• Herbal Therapy Needs Further Examination, Clinical Trials-Durosinmi-Etti • Chemother…

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HIV Vaccine Breakthrough as Experts Generate Immune Cells to Stop Spread

*Chronic pain common in people living with virus   An effective Human Immuno-deficiency V…

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Men Above 50 Should go for Prostate Screening

As today marks awareness week for prostrate cancer, men above 50 have been advised to go for scree…

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Borno Begins Immunisation as Cholera Death Toll Hits 44

The death toll in the cholera outbreak in Borno State has hit 44.The stateís Commissioner f…

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