P&G Donates Pampers to Promote Maternal, Infant Health

Headaches can sometimes be so painful that it can make you wonder if something more serious is wrong. Most headaches are due to tension, migraines, or sinus issues, but a sudden, severe headache can be a symptom of a more urgent problem, such as a stroke. It’s important to note that most headaches are unrelated to a stroke, says Dr. Helen Okoye a medical expert and spokesperson for the World Thrombosis Day (WTD) campaign. “However, if you or someone you know experiences a sudden, severe headache along with other neurological symptoms, seek immediate medical attention,” she says. Time is critical

By Modupe Gbadeyanka The Lagos State House of Assembly has called for the immediate arrest of a doctor who performed surgery on a boy, Adebola Akin-Bright, whose intestines went missing in the process of going under the knife. At the plenary on Tuesday, the parliament urged the Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, to provide funds for the treatment of the boy outside the country. It was alleged that the 12-year-old Adebola underwent surgery at a private hospital, Obitoks Medical Centre, in the Alimosho area of the state. He is currently at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) receiving

By Ifthakaar Shaik The African healthcare industry faces an immediate challenge: a dire shortage of skilled professionals, leading to alarmingly low doctor and nurse-to-population ratios in many countries. Training medical professionals, especially specialists like pathologists or oncologists, is a multi-year-long process. Moreover, foundational education at the primary and secondary levels is crucial to supply tertiary institutions with a stream of candidates equipped with the necessary aptitude, literacy, and numeracy skills to pursue medicine. Recent technological leaps catalysed by the COVID-19 pandemic and expanding telecommunications infrastructure, including ventures like Starlink, have bridged some of the distance between communities in need of

By Adedapo Adesanya The Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Dr Muhammad Pate, has said Nigeria could become a hub for vaccine production and distribution in Africa, banking on his experience at GAVI. According to him, this can be achieved with the country’s large population, skilled workforce, and existing pharmaceutical industry. “On local vaccine manufacturing, as you are all aware, until I came back as a Minister, I was going to work with GAVI, an international organisation created in 2000 to improve access to new and underused vaccines for children living in the world’s poorest countries. And GAVI also

In order to support economic growth in Africa and India, Stanford University, through its Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB), will offer training to entrepreneurs from the two regions. The higher institution is offering its a one-year certificate program called Stanford Seed, which is designed exclusively for busy business owners and CEOs, providing management training, one-on-one support, and networking opportunities to growth-minded business leaders. The Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) operates in East Africa, Southern Africa, West Africa, and India. One of the past participants, Mr Frank Omondi, who is a wildlife biologist turned entrepreneur, said his desire to

By Dipo Olowookere In a swift move to prevent the crippling of the operations at the grassroots level and to avoid hardship for the local government workers in the State, the Oyo State Government has secured a variation order which allows all monies and allocations meant for the 33 local governments in the state to be paid directly to them. Commissioner for Information, Culture and Tourism, Mr Toye Arulogun said in a statement on Sunday that Justice John Tsoho of an Abuja High Court gave the variation order in a ruling on February 7, 2017 in suit FHC/ABJ/CS/16/2017 between 15

For more than two decades, Kaspersky Lab has been offering the best security solutions to customers in pursuit of its mission to save the world. As the world has become more digitised and globalised, it has moved beyond the anti-virus laboratory to become a technology leader with an advanced and comprehensive portfolio of security solutions and services, including innovative products and technologies, cloud services and world-leading threat intelligence. In order to serve its customers better, the company has rebranded to be simply known as ‘Kaspersky’, and its new mission now ‘building a safer world’, emphasising its commitment to a trusted

By Dipo Olowookere Monday, December 12, 2016 has been declared as public holiday by the Federal Government. The day is to mark the Eid-El Maulud celebration. Declaring the holiday on behalf of FG, Minister of Interior, Mr Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau, enjoined all Muslim faithful and Nigerians in general to cooperate and join hands with President Muhammadu Buhari as he works tirelessly to build a strong, united and peaceful nation. In a statement issued by the acting Permanent Secretary in the Interior Ministry, Mr Muhammadu Maccido, the Minister urged all Nigerians to use the occasion to pray for peace across the

By Adedapo Adesanya Nigeria’s hope for oil to sell above $60 per barrel was looking good on Friday, August 16 as Brent Crude rebounded to trade at $58.64, gaining 41 cents or 0.7 percent on the global market. For the West Texas Intermediate (WTI) Crude, it gained 40 cents or 0.73 percent yesterday to exchange for $54.87 per barrel on the international market. In the past few days, prices of the highly demanded commodity had been facing south as a result of rising tensions caused by the trade war between Washington and Beijing. Oil gains were capped after the Organization

By Adedapo Adesanya  Shareholders of the African Development Bank (AfDB) have approved the raising of the bank’s capital by additional $115 billion in a bid to stimulate growth and development on the continent. The approval was done at the lender’s shareholders’ meeting held in the Ivorian capital, Abidjan, last Thursday. In a statement released after the meeting, it was disclosed that the capital increase was the largest in the history of the bank following its establishment in 1964. “With the approved increase, the capital of the bank would more than double from 93 billion dollars to 208 billion dollars. “This

By Modupe Gbadeyanka Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State will on Tuesday, May 16, 2017 (today) commission the newly constructed pedestrian bridge. Also to be commissioned today with the bridge is a segregated bus park built at Berger also along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. It was gathered that the newly built pedestrian bridge was constructed of lay-bys and slip road. After his inauguration, the Governor embarked on the project in an effort to reduce the rate of deaths caused by hit and run drivers when people cross the expressway.

By Dipo Olowookere The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on Monday offered for sale N30 billion worth of treasury bills via the Open Market Operations (OMO). At the exercise, market players showed huge interests in the one-year paper, but the apex bank, decided not to sell any of the tenor to them. The central bank, at the end of the auction, declared a no sale. According to Zedcrest Research, this action by the central bank was in a bid to avoid heightening the liquidity pressures in the system. Business Post reports that N5 billion worth of the 101-day notes were