AIDS researchers announced on Wednesday that a fourth person has been “cured” of HIV, but the dangerous procedure for patients also battling cancer may be little comfort for the tens of millions living with the virus worldwide. The 66-year-old man, named the “City of Hope” patient after the Californian centre …
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Atiku Says Tinubu Has Dementia, He Could Not Remember His Party Name
The last of the verbal war between the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu and his opponent in the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has not been heard. In response to a statement credited to the Tinubu Campaign Organisation; in which it accused Atiku of lying …
Read More »WHO: Monkeypox Outbreak Concentrated Among Men Who Have Sex With Men
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has disclosed that the Monkeypox outbreak is more prevalent among men who have sex with men. This was made known on Saturday by Tedros Ghebreyesus, WHO director-general at a media briefing where he declared the multi-country Monkeypox outbreak a public health emergency of global concern. “So, in …
Read More »Ekiti Records 74 New Cases Of COVID-19 – Health Commissioner After The Eld- EL- Kabir Celebration
At least seventy-four new cases of COVID-19 have recently been recorded in Ekiti state, after the Eld- EL- Kabir celebration. The State Commissioner for Health and Human Services, Dr Oyebanji Filani who made this known via a statement in Ado Ekiti, noted that there was a significant decline in the …
Read More »Astronauts Warned Not To Masturbate In Space As One Session Can ‘Impregnate 3 Females’
The act of masturbating by astronauts while in space has been kicked against due to the risk it poses on females. According to a Nasa engineer who made the revelation on US chat show king Conan O’Brien’s Needs A Friend podcast, self-pleasuring is banned in zero gravity amid fears any …
Read More »US President Joe Biden Tests Positive For Covid-19
President Joe Biden tested positive for COVID-19 Thursday, something the White House had taken extra steps to avoid as highly transmissible strains struck top aides, Cabinet members and the vice president. Biden is experiencing “very mild” symptoms and is taking the antiviral drug Paxlovid, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre …
Read More »Cholera Kills Five In Kano
Government of Kano State has confirmed that it had recorded five Cholera-related deaths in the state. It also added that very strong preventive measures had been put in place to tackle the outbreak. This was disclosed on Tuesday by the state commissioner for health, Dr Aminu Tsanyawa at a news …
Read More »Ghana Confirms First Cases Of Deadly Marburg Virus
Ghana has confirmed its first two cases of the deadly Marburg virus, a highly infectious disease in the same family as the virus that causes Ebola. It says both patients died recently in hospital in the southern Ashanti region. Their samples came back positive earlier this month and have now …
Read More »Buhari: We Will Soon Curb Medical Tourism
Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari has stated that the medical manpower needed to curb medical tourism in the country will soon be realised. This was stated on Monday by Buhari who was represented by the Minister of Education, Prof. Adam Adamu at the groundbreaking for the construction of the Administrative/Senate Building, …
Read More »NMA Hails Osinbajo For Having Surgery In Nigeria, Asks Politicians To Emulate Him
The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has implored political office holders in the country to stop embarking medical tourism. This is as the association hailed Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo by seeking medical treatment in the country. NMA told the politicians in Nigeria to emulate Osinbajo by patronising Nigeria’s hospitals and medical practitioners. …
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