•Health workers protest The ongoing strike by the Joint Health Sector Unions has entered the third month, crippling activities in government-owned hospitals across Nigeria, leaving patients stranded and forcing many to seek essential services outside public health facilities. Now in its third month, the industrial action has grounded critical ...
•Al Sodiq Hospital demolished Mile 12, a town in Nigeria’s commercial centre, Lagos State, has always been a beehive — bustling with activities. It houses one of the biggest food markets in the country and, some may say, peoples from every tribe, state in Nigeria. This week, residents in the area were united in tears […]
•Health workers protest Patients across public hospitals in the Federal Capital Territory and other parts of the country have decried the severe hardship caused by the ongoing strike by the Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU) and the Assembly of Health Care Professional Associations, which began amid ongoing industrial action by resident docto...
•Hospital services grounded in Abuja The Association of Resident Doctors (ARD), Federal Capital Territory (FCT) chapter, commenced an indefinite strike yesterday, grounding services in district hospitals and primary healthcare centres, and it’s ongoing. The strike was announced in a communique by ARD-FCT, signed by its president, George ...
•Nurses protest Hospitals and health centres across the states were gripped by silence as a nationwide strike emptied wards and emergency units as a result of nurses strike. The nationwide strike by the National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives (NANNM) crippled healthcare services across multiple states. Hospitals discharged patients...
•House of Representatives The House of Representatives today passed for first reading a bill seeking to prohibit public and civil servants, including their immediate families, from patronising private schools and healthcare facilities in Nigeria. The bill was sponsored by Hon. Amobi Godwin Ogah, lawmaker representing Isuikwuato/Umunneochi Fede...
•Diphtheria The Edo State Government today said it has placed hospitals across the state on “high alert” over the recent outbreak of diphtheria, a bacterial infection that affects the upper respiratory tract. The government, in a statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Fred Itua, said that Governor Monday Okpebholo had activate...
•Governor Umo Eno NKENEKE EFO, Uyo reporting This year’s birthday celebration of Governor Umo Eno turned out an unforgettable experience for orphans, widows, the physically challenged and several vulnerable citizens and residents of Akwa Ibom State. A cross section of Akwa Ibom people ranging from politicians, public office holders, to o...
•Enugu tanker explosion Relations of the 18 victims of last Saturday’s petrol tanker fire in Enugu yesterday besieged hospitals where the injured were taken. Family members of the dead also besieged the scene of the accident at the Ugwu Onyeama section of the Enugu-Onitsha Expressway, reports NAN. They wept uncontrollably at seeing the vehicle...
•FCT Minister Nyesom Wike (L) and Senate President Godswill Akpabio Striking resident doctors in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) have challenged FCT Minister Nyesom Wike and Senate President Godswill Akpabio to use government hospitals in the nation’s capital to feel the plight of public health workers and patients. “If we are ready to fix...
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