•Dr Priscilia Imade Parents should watch out for the following signs that may indicate a vision problem in their child: – Frequent eye rubbing or blinking – Squinting or tilting the head to see better – Covering one eye – Complaints of headaches or eye pain – Difficulty reading or avoiding close-up activities R...
•Food poisoning Seven persons from the same family in Runjin Barmo village of Kajiji District in the Shagari Local Government Area of Sokoto State have died after the consumption of contaminated cassava delicacy. This was confirmed by a statement signed by Nura Bello, the Information Officer of the state Ministry of Health yesterday. The state...
A housewife, Jibike Sanusi, has approached a Kubwa Upper Area Court in Abuja, Federal Capital Territory (FCT), seeking the dissolution of her three-year-old marriage to her husband, Alabi Oludare, on grounds of lack of love and affection. The housewife told the court that she got married to her husband in April 2021, in accordance with [&helli...
•Queen Obukoko Heartbroken after two failed relationships with men, 30-year-old Queen Obukoko, born with male and female sex organs, tells Saturday PUNCH how she impregnated two women with her dominant male organ, the stigma associated with being intersex, and the dream to one day get married to a man she loves after undergoing a gender [&hell...
•Bandits Derrick and Caleb, the two children abducted when their father, Dr. Tiri Gyang, a lecturer at the Federal University Dutsinma, Katsina State, was killed by bandits at their residence, have been freed by the criminals. A source revealed that the bandits initially demanded a N20 million ransom to release the children though the exact [&...
•UK police Two children have died and nine have been injured, six critically, after a series of stabbings at a children’s dance class in Southport yesterday. Two adults are also in critical condition after what police described as a “ferocious attack”, reports AFP. The stabbings took place at a Taylor Swift-themed yoga and dance class [&hellip...
An Area Court sitting in Ilorin, Kwara State, has dissolved the Islamic marriage between one Rashida Bashir and her estranged husband, Bashir Adegboye, over the latter’s womanising attitude. The presiding judge, Hammed Ajumonbi, in his ruling, said that the letter sent by the husband revealed that he agreed to divorce, reports NAN. Ajumonbi, t...
The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) says that approximately one million Nigerian children die annually before their fifth birthday due to various sicknesses. Dr Adedolapo Fasawe, the Mandate Secretary, Health Services and Environment Secretariat (HSES), said this on Friday at a news conference to kickstart the 2024 FCT Maternal...
•House of Representatives House of Representatives at the plenary today passed for first reading two bills on the establishment of ‘National Hospital for Women’ and ‘National Children’s Hospital’, Ideato, Imo. The two private member legislations were sponsored by Hon. Ikenga Ugochinyere, member representing Ideato North, South federal constitu...
•Vaccine syringe Global childhood immunisation coverage stalled in 2023, leaving 2.7 million additional children under-vaccinated compared to pre-pandemic levels in 2019, according to data published today by the World Health Organisation and the United Nations Children’s Fund. The latest WHO and UNICEF estimates of national immunisation covera...
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