Category Archives: Health
Kidnapped Sokoto businessman dies 11 days after release
Alhaji Abu Dankure, the Sokoto-based businessman who was kidnapped and released 11 days ago, is dead.
Dankure, aged 68, died at the Uthmanu Danfodiyo University Teaching Hospital, Sokoto at about 3 a.m. on Friday.
His elder brother, Alhaji Mamman Dangaladima told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the deceased was taken to the hospital at about 2 a.m after complaining of a heartache and died about an hour later.
OJB Discharged From Hospital, Expected Back In Nigeria Soon
After a successful heart surgery in India, popular music producer and musician Babatunde David Okungbowa popularly known as OJB Jezreel has been discharged from hospital.
OJB who left Nigeria some months back for a kidney transplant is well and currently recovering.
He sent out a message to thank Nigerians and to say he’ll be back in the country soon.
Read below:
Dear fellow Nigerians,
Greetings from far away India! I am sure this note from me will catch you with a little surprise.
I have been reading a lot of news about ME being published on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and different Blogs by my good friends.
I thought I must take out a quick moment and let you know that I am officially discharged today from the hospital, after a successful Kidney Transplantation Surgery, by God’s Grace.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank all Nigerians for your prayers and good wishes, without which all this would not have been possible.
I also take this opportunity to thank my friends, fans and family for all the love, prayers and good wishes for a Speedy Recovery!!
Be home with you soon…….
Thank you once again sincerely,
Your very own OJB Jezreel.
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Calabar Boat Mishap: Only Two Survivors from 128 on Board
Only two survivors have been found so far after a boat capsized off Nigeria with an estimated 128 people on board, emergency officials said on Wednesday.
“One hundred twenty-eight people were suspected to be aboard the boat, but only nine bodies have been recovered, while there were two survivors so far,” Yushau Shuaib, spokesman for the National Emergency Management Agency, told AFP.
He said the sinking occurred about two or three days ago some 40 miles (60 kilometres) off the coast of the southern city of Calabar, but that there was still some confusion about the origin of the boat.
Tears as Goldie is buried
Emotion ran high as friends, colleagues and family members paid their last respect to the late pop singer and former Big Brother Africa star, Goldie Harvey, when she was buried yesterday.
Goldie died penultimate Thursday night after a brief illness at Reddington Hospital, Victoria Island, Lagos. She was buried yesterday at Ikoyi Vaults and Garden, Lagos.
DELAY IN HEALTH BILL PASSAGE BREEDS QUACKERY – NMA
The Nigeria Medical Association (NMA), Edo State council has appealed to the National Assembly to as a matter of urgency ensure the speedy passage of the National Health Bill just as it noted that the delay has contributed to quackery in the medical profession.
The appeal was made yesterday in Benin City, the Edo State capital during an inspection and monitoring of several private health facilities in the state by a team of health practitioners drawn from the state ministry of health led by the state chairman of NMA, Dr. Emmanuel Ighodaro and the director of medical services of the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria, Edo State branch, Dr. Helen Eboreime.
WE REMAIN RESOLUTE ON POLIO ERADICATION – GOVS’ FORUM
The Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) yesterday condemned the recent killing of health workers administering the polio vaccines in Kano, vowing that such killings would not deter the resolve to eradicate the polio virus from the country.
Nine female polio vaccinators were last week killed in two shootings in Kano State. Nigeria is one of only three countries in the world where polio is still endemic.
Condemnation has since trailed the killings, underscoring the huge setback it poses to the resolve, especially by the NGF, to eradicate the virus.
