Coronavirus will be defeated like Ebola in Nigeria, NCDC says by Akinwande Soji-Ojo February 28, 2020 0 The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control(NCDC) has deployed its Rapid Response Teams to support the Lagos State Government, as Nigeria ...
FIFA, WHO sign four year deal to use football against tobacco smoking, unhealthy lifestyle, others by Patrick Akpu October 4, 2019 0 The World Health Organization (WHO) and football’s world governing body, FIFA, have signed a four-year partnership deal to promote healthy ...
Nigeria, others, recording poor progress in tackling Hepatitis — WHO by Akinwande Soji-Ojo June 14, 2019 0 The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Friday lamented the slow progress being made by Nigeria and some other African countries ...
Snakebite: W.H.O releases new treatment, control strategies for disease called ‘snakebite envenoming’ (SEE DETAILS) by Patrick Akpu May 7, 2019 0 The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Monday released details of its strategy to reduce deaths and cases of disability due ...
420 million adults have diabetes – WHO by newspeak November 15, 2018 0 No fewer than 420 million adults have diabetes, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said, adding that the number has ...
WHO, OHCHR, UN Women, others, call for ban of virginity testing by Esther Olowoyeye October 18, 2018 0 A group of United Nations agencies has issued a joint statement calling for a ban on tests meant to assess ...
WHO: What you need to know about suicide, depression by Patrick Akpu June 8, 2018 2 Following two celebrity suicides in one week, many fear more may happen in the comng weeks. Fashion icon, Kate Spade ...
Tuberculosis: Aisha Buhari receives Global TB partnership feom Geneva by Patrick Akpu March 22, 2018 0 First Lady, Aisha Buhari, on Tbursday received officials of the Global TB partnership from Geneva, Switzerland. The visit comes ahead ...
Saraki’s wife named WHO special advisor by Patrick Akpu March 19, 2018 0 Mrs Toyin Ojora Saraki, wife of Senate President Bukola Saraki, has been named as special advisor to the Independent Advisory ...
WHO classifies video game addiction as mental health disorder by Patrick Akpu December 28, 2017 0 The effects of obsessive video gaming will be recognised as a mental health disorder in 2018, the Workd Health Organisation ...
W.H.O sacks Mugabe as goodwill ambassador after outrage by Patrick Akpu October 23, 2017 0 Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has been removed as a goodwill ambassador, the World Health Organisation (WHO), said on Sunday following ...
WARNING! Gonorrhoea becoming untreatable – WHO by Patrick Akpu July 7, 2017 0 Gonorrhoea infections are increasing, but doctors are running out of antibiotics that can fight the increasingly resistant bacteria causing the ...
Ethiopia’s Tedros Adhanom becomes first African to head WHO by Patrick Akpu May 24, 2017 0 Former Ethiopian Health Minister, Tedros Adhanom was elected as the new Director-General (DG) of the World Health Organization (WHO) on ...
Very hot beverages can cause cancer, WHO says by Patrick Akpu December 24, 2016 0 The long list of cancer-causing agents is getting longer. Smoking, exposure to UV radiation from the sun; air pollution are ...
#AntibioticResistance: Why pneumonia, tuberculosis, gonorrhoea, are becoming harder to treat by Patrick Akpu November 17, 2016 0 Bacterial infections like pneumonia, tuberculosis and gonorrhoea, are becoming harder to treat and the World Health Organisation (WHO) says Antibiotic Resistance ...