•Police recruits The Police Recruitment Board, set up by the Police Service Commission to midwife the ongoing recruitment of Nigerians into the Constable Cadre of the Nigeria Police Force, has confirmed twenty centres for medical screening for successful and shortlisted applicants from the just concluded computer-based tests conducted by the J...
•Doctors during a protest The Medical and Dental Consultants Association of Nigeria has extended the ultimatum earlier issued to the federal government to address all pending issues by six more weeks. MDCAN made this known in a communique issued at the end of its National Executive Council meeting held in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State yesterday. [&hell...
•Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has raised the alarm over the disappointing demand for locally produced medical syringes in the country following the discovery of over 1.5 billion unsold units of the product in one local factory alone. The Director General of NAFDAC, Prof. Mojis...
•Dr Dada The Chief Medical Director of Federal Medical Centre, Ebute Metta, Lagos, Dr Adedamola Dada, in this interview explains measures being taken by the hospital to retain health workers and how health insurance can reduce quackery, reports The PUNCH. Brain drain (japa) is a very big issue. How is the Japa syndrome affecting your […...
•Zulum The Borno State Government has approved the immediate release of over N55.9 million for payment of registration fees of 153 medical students in a bid to resuscitate the health sector which is the worst hit by the insurgent crisis. The Executive Secretary of the Borno State Scholarship Board, Malam Bala Isa, disclosed this while [&hellip...
•Akeredolu and Aiyedatiwa Ondo State Governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, will commence his medical leave tomorrow, as a follow-up to his medical treatment, his spokesman, Richard Olatunde, has said. In a statement today, Olatunde said during Akeredolu’s absence, the Deputy Governor, Lucky Aiyedatiwa, will assume the responsibilities of the govern...
The management of Ambrose Alli University (AAU) Ekpoma in Edo State, has reacted to a story in the media yesterday with headline “Varsity compels medical students to sign understanding”. Quoting from a 300-level medical student of the university who expressed his dissatisfation on X that the purported undertaking could extend the d...
•Ambrose Alli University A medical student at the Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, Benin State has expressed his dissatisfaction on X against an undertaking that could extend the duration of students’ time in school to over 12 years. •Ambrose Alli varsity Undertaking The 300-level medical student disclosed that they were given an undertaking t...
•Prof Adeyemo The last is yet to be heard about the widespread criticism which has trailed the alleged flawed nomination process leading to the appointment of the current Chief Medical Director of Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Prof. Wasiu Lanre Adeyemo. Following the rash of protests and petitions against the appointment, the pres...
Benue State University, BSU, Makurdi, yesterday, placed one month’s suspension of 200 to 600 level Medical Students of its College of Health Sciences. Recall that the affected category of students had, on October 25, 2023, protested against what they claimed was lack of water and adequate hostel accommodation in the institution that the manage...