What should have been a joyful day on April 14, 2026, has turned into one troubling misery for 28-year-old Blessing Ijeoma David. Instead of celebration, the young mother has been left in tears, while she accuses the doctor who delivered her of turning her expected twin pregnancy to a single baby after a surgical delivery, […]
•Late Dr Ere Ogbachi A medical doctor, Dr Ere Ogbachi, has died following complications after delivering triplets in Bayelsa State. The death was confirmed in a Facebook statement today by the deceased’s brother, Meshack Sintei, who said she was later rushed to the Intensive Care Unit of the Federal Medical Centre, Yenagoa, where she died [&he...
A Federal Capital Territory High Court in Jabi, Abuja, yesterday granted bail in the sum of N5 million to an Abuja-based fertility specialist, John Abebe, following his arraignment on a three-count charge of fraud, criminal conspiracy, and unlawful disclosure of confidential medical records. Abebe was arraigned alongside his medical facility, ...
•Lassa fever Plateau State has confirmed an outbreak of Lassa fever affecting seven local government areas, with 11 positive cases and four deaths recorded since December 2025. The Commissioner for Health, Dr Nicholas Baamlong, disclosed this during a press briefing today at the Ministry of Health in Jos, where he provided an update on the [&h...
•Lasser fever A medical doctor at the Bingham University Teaching Hospital (BHUTH) has been killed after contracting Lassa fever while attending to a patient diagnosed with the disease. The deceased, Dr. Salome Oboyi, a senior resident doctor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, died after battling the viral infection, reports Dail...
•Social welfare activist, Just Adetoun The Ogun State government has claimed that social welfare activist, Adetoun Onajobi, popularly known as Just Adetoun, has gone into hiding, and a medical doctor who allegedly issued a fake medical report to help her evade police arrest has been remanded in prison. The state government also confirmed that ...
The Ekiti State Government has sacked a surgeon, who was accused of removing the kidney of a patient without their prior consent at the Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital (EKSUTH). This was contained in a statement signed and made available to journalists by the Commissioner for Health, Oyebanji Filani. It also recommended that all membe...
•Jailed Dr Frederic Pechier A French court today sentenced a doctor to life in jail for poisoning 30 child and adult patients, 12 of whom died, in an alleged attempt to discredit co-workers. Frederic Pechier, 53, worked as an anaesthetist in two clinics in the eastern city of Besancon, when patients went into cardiac arrest […]
•DSS operatives The Department of State Service has reportedly arrested a medical doctor said to be supplying drugs to kidnapping gangs operating in parts of Kwara State. The suspect, whose name could not be ascertained at press time, was intercepted in the Jebba area after intelligence reports revealed that some couriers had been moving medic...
•Tinubu and Nnamdi Kanu The Lead Personal Physician to the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has warned that the sudden transfer of his patient to the Sokoto Correctional Facility, less than 24 hours after his conviction, poses grave and potentially life-threatening medical risks. Kanu, who was convicted and s...
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