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Buhari to launch campaign against open defecation aimed at providing toilets everywhere by 2025
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari is to launch a campaign against open defecation known as Clean Nigeria Use Toilet in a bid to bring about an end to the practice of Nigerians relieving themselves in public by 2025. At the moment, about 47m...
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Peter Obi dismisses rumours he had a heart attack saying he only visited hospital because he was feeling feverish
FORMER Anambra State governor and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) vice presidential candidate Peter Obi has denied that he is suffering from a heart attack pointing out that he is only felt feverish yesterday and decided to visit the hospital for...
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British NHS plans to embark on ambitious international recruitment drive in search of nurses
BRITAIN'S National Health Service (NHS) plans to embark on an ambitious international recruitment drive in a desperate bid to get foreign nurses over the next five years as manpower shortages are straining the system. Founded after...
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Nigeria accounts for 25% of all cases of malaria worldwide according to latest health report
NIGERIA currently accounts for about 25% of all malaria cases worldwide according a recent report published by the Bauchi State Agency for the Control of HIV/Aids Tuberculosis Leprosy and Malaria (Bacatma). In its latest report, Bacatma...
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Lagos State Government warns that contaminated ponmo is now on sale across local markets
LAGOS State Government officials have warned members of the public that contaminated cowhide popularly known as ponmo is being sold in markets urging them to be careful about purchasing the dangerous meat. Globally, cowhide is a major...
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Contrary to Dr Ngige’s views Nigeria is sitting on a manpower time bomb and needs a Reichsautobahn programme to employ our youth
By Ayo Akinfe (1) Over the last 48 hours, Nigerians have been reacting to the comments of labour and employment minister Chris Ngige about how the country can afford to keep losing doctors to overseas countries because we have an abundant supply...
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Labour minister Dr Ngige unperturbed by trained doctors leaving Nigeria as over 6,000 sit UK medical exam this year
NIGERIA'S labour and employment minister Dr Chris Ngige has said he remains unperturbed with the practice of locally-trained medical doctors rushing abroad to seek employment because they can be replaced with the surplus available. In...
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Nigeria had highest number of hungry people in 2018 due to Boko Haram insurgency according to Global Report on Food Crisis
NIGERIA had the highest number of the world's hungriest people in 2018 according to the findings of a recent report published by the Global Report on Food Crisis which said that the Boko Haram crisis created a major human...
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