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The Director, Public Health and Disease Control, Ebonyi Ministry of Health, Dr Chris Achi, said that regular hand washing reduces risk of contracting infectious diseases by more than 30 per cent.   Achi made this known to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Abakaliki on the occasion of 2014 World Hand Washing Day.   He said the ...

Gov. Babangida Aliyu of Niger on Wednesday picked an expression of intent form for the Niger East Senatoria District on the PDP platform.   The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Aliyu’s form was bought by an organisation, Talba Support Movement (TSM), at the party’s state secretariat in Minna.   TSM Coordinator, Alhaji Hamisu Jankaro, said Aliyu’s candidacy would ...

Regular washing hand and use of sanitisers would eradicate polio, prevent pneumonia, typhoid fever, Hepatitis B and water born diseases, says Dr Rilwanu Mohammed. Mohammed, who is the Executive Secretary, FCT Primary Health Care Board, made this known to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Friday. He said that the awareness created on Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) ...

Mr Oliver Wolugbom, Rivers State Director of the National Orientation Agency ( NOA), has stressed the need to  maintain  high sanitary standard in order to check the spread of  Ebola Virus Disease (EVD). Wolugbom who spoke on Friday in Port Harcourt at a sensitisation programme organised by the Agency for youths, said high sanitary standard was essential in the fight ...

A 42-year-old man, Adebisi Oluranti, was sentenced to  12 months imprisonment by an Ibadan Magistrates’ Court on Friday for stealing musical instrument from a church. The Magistrate, Mrs Munirat Giwa Babalola, said that Oluranti should serve the term with hard labour. The convict pleaded guilty to the offence before the court. Oluranti was arraigned on a two-count charge of unlawful ...

It has been two months the Nigerian government and the World Health Organisation shut down First Consultant Hospital to decontaminate it from Ebola Virus after the first imported case by a Liberian /American died in the hospital on July 25.   The Lagos State Governor Babatunde Fashola visited the hospital on Friday and promised the state will replace equipment the ...