•Femi Falana and Sylvester Oromoni (Jnr) Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, has questioned the ruling of Magistrate Mikhail Kadiri, the Coroner who investigated the death of Master Sylvester Oromoni, a 12-year-old student of Dowen College, Lekki, Lagos State. In the ruling delivered today, the Coroner Lagos exonerated Dowen College and blamed t...
•Late Sylvester Oromoni Jnr The Coroner Inquest sitting in Ogba Magistrate Court examining the death of a 12-year-old student of Dowen College, Lekki, Sylvester Junior Oromoni, has attributed his death to his parents’ and doctor’s negligence. The Coroner Magistrate, Mikhail Kadiri, held that Oromoni died as a result of failed treatment for his...
•Babcock University Teaching Hospital The management of Babcock University Teaching Hospital, Ilisan Remo, has launched a search party for the children of one of its patients, 81-year-old Mr Maurice Okpenyong, who has been abandoned at its medical facility. This was according to a statement issued by the Director of Communication of the univer...
•Henry Ogbonna Researcher unveils, If there is one man who is harnessing nature’s bounty for the relentless pursuit of effective solutions against diabetes and obesity, it is Mr Henry Ogbonna. His innovative research on the therapeutic potential of medicinal plants offers great insights into the fight against these prevalent health issues, rep...
•Nigerian naval officers The Nigerian Navy (NN) has confirmed the arrest of three commissioned officers and a civilian woman over their alleged involvement in the assault of a Microbiologist, Iheanyi Onumegbu, 33, at the NN Reference Hospital (NNRH) in Ojo, Lagos. •Late Iheanyi Onumegbu Onumegbu, a civilian staff of the Ministry of Defence att...
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration Control has banned the sale of Dex Luxury bar soap due to the presence of Butyphenyl Methylpropional. According to a statement posted on NAFDAC’s official channels today, the product, Dex Luxury Bar Soap (No 6 Mystic Flower), manufactured in Turkey, contains BMHCA, a substance prohibited in ...
The National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has recalled the popular cough syrup, Benylin Paediatrics, manufactured by Johnson & Johnson following recent toxicity findings in the labouratory on the product. In a statement published on its website yesterday, the agency said labouratory analysis conducted on th...
The authorities of the Imo Specialist Hospital, Umuguma, Owerri, have given owners of abandoned corpses in its morgue three weeks to claim them or risk a mass burial. This, they said, was due to a large number of abandoned bodies in the hospital’s mortuary. The Chief Medical Director, Dr. Kaunda Ibebuike, in a statement, urged […]
The management of Nigerian Railway Corporation, NRC, has expressed its condolences to the family of the deceased officer attached to Abuja-Kaduna train, assuring the public that they have medics available on all trains to provide immediate medical assistance in case of emergency. Recall that an incident occurred last week when a police officer...
The Association of HospiÂtal and Administrative Pharmacists of Nigeria (AHAPN) has urged the federal government to impleÂment the approved Consultant Pharmacist Cadre and HarmonÂisation of Call Duty Allowance and Other Related Allowances for Pharmacists with Doctor of Pharmacy Degree. Pharm. Olabode Ogunjemiyo (FPSN), the National Chairman of ...