Lauretta Adogu
18 Mar
The Federal Government has charged the new executives of the National Industrial Safety Council of Nigeria (NISCN) to identify and coordinate the various advocacy platforms for effective management of occupational safety and health (OSH) awareness creation in both public and private sectors.
Latest
9 mins ago
Intelligence reports have it that three bandit leaders, Kachalla Dan Baba, Kachalla Abu Guddi, and Kachalla Bello Kurma, who operate in Zamfara State have lost their sanity after excessive use of hard drugs. The bandit leaders, according to Zagazola, a counter-security expert, were said to have had sudden mental instability that made their gangs disarm…
31 mins ago
The Kaduna Governor, Senator Uba Sani, has approved the recruitment of 1,800 staff to boost service delivery at the Primary Healthcare (PHC) facilities in the state. Commissioner of Health, Hajiya Umma Ahmad, in a statement, said that the recruitment will strengthen the state's leading role in primary healthcare. According to Ahmad, the recruitment will directly…
38 mins ago
A TikTok user, simply identified as @nurse_chioma, has debunked claims suggesting that Nigeria’s First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, visited Agbor, Delta State, where nursing students were seen rejecting her as “our mother” in a now-viral video. In a video posted on Thursday, the young lady, who identified herself as a student of Delta State College…
59 mins ago
Gunmen suspected to be bandits operating in the rural communities have abducted six members of the Ayetoro-Kiri community of Kaba-Bunu local government of Kogi state. The Guardian gathered that one Enoch Johnson, a timber contractor, Elder Maiye, who works as a security guard at the community secondary school, a young girl, Dupe Oshe, Kehinde Lot,…
1 hour ago
About 807 suspected cases of Cerebrospinal Meningitis (CSM) and 74 deaths have been reported across 22 states in the country, with a Case Fatality Rate (CFR) of 9.2 percent as of 26th March 2025. According to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC), the affected states include Kebbi, Katsina, Jigawa, Yobe, Gombe, Adamawa,…
1 hour ago
About 807 suspected cases of Cerebrospinal Meningitis (CSM) and 74 deaths have been reported across 22 states in the country, with a Case Fatality Rate (CFR) of 9.2 percent as of 26th March 2025. According to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC), the affected states include Kebbi, Katsina, Jigawa, Yobe, Gombe, Adamawa,…
3 hours ago
The Think Yoruba First Organisation has urged the National Assembly (NASS) to reject the proposed federal bill that seeks to grant indigenous rights to Nigerians based on residency or marriage. According to the organisation, the bill, which was proposed by a member of the House of Representatives (HoR), Kalu Okezie, would erode the cultural and…
3 hours ago
Justice Adebayo Yusuf of a High Court in Kwara on Thursday sentenced three artisans to death by hanging over the death of Saheed Lawal, a fellow Artisan in Offa, Offa local government area of the state. The artisans: Isiaka Jimoh, Lekan Ahmed, and Adebayo Saheed are auto mechanics at Amuyo in Offa and were found…
3 hours ago
Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, has revealed that Lagos State currently faces a deficit of 30,000 doctors and a significant shortage of nurses, pharmacists, dentists, laboratory scientists, and other allied health professionals. Speaking, on Tuesday, at the official handover of key medical infrastructure to contractors for conversion into modern academic facilities, Abayomi…
3 hours ago
Thousands of persons were rendered homeless, with businesses and worship centres demolished in Agric Bus Stop, Owusu 1 Community Development Area (CDA), Ikorodu, Lagos. When The Guardian visited the area, officials of the Lagos State Building Control Agency (LASBCA) were seen demolishing the buildings with the support of officials from the Lagos State Ministry of…