Nigerian agro exports to Europe worth over $700 million have been reported to be rejected due to its low quality. Nigerian Agro produce This was revealed by the President and Chairman, the Board of Trustees, African Export–Import Bank, Afrixembank, Prof. Benedict Oramah when he spoke at the official commissioning of the Africa Quality Assurance Centre (AQAC) in Sagamu, Ogun…
Some offices of black market currency dealers in Abuja was on Tuesday, November 1, 2022, raided by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, who arrested some Bureaux De Change operators. The areas raided included Zone 4 and Zone 3 of the FCT where numerous currency dealers thrive in large number and sell local…
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has alerted Nigerians of a falsified Augmentin 625mg tablets in circulation within the country. Augumentin is an antibiotic medication used for the treatment of different types of bacterial infections. In a statement on Monday, the agency said the falsified antibiotic has the batch number 562626,…
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has said Nigeria cannot imitate other countries legalising cannabis cultivation and usage due to the evil it would bring to the country. The chairman/chief executive of the NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (retd), said this yesterday when he hosted a delegation of Media Trust management, led…
Some important things about beans that you probably didn’t know. [The Guardian Nigeria] Alongside rice and garri, beans is a well-established item in the average Nigerian’s diet. You can’t list three Nigerian staple foods without mentioning beans. Obviously it is popular, well consumed and possesses quite a number of advantages. But that’s not all there…
A Nigerian man diagnosed with Monkeypox disease has shared his experience. In a video shared on social media, the man who resides in Aba, Abia state recounted how he was misdiagnosed by some doctors until he went to the Federal Medical Center in Aba where a doctor made the right diagnosis of Monkeypox disease….
While Nigerian hospitals continue to suffer from insufficient doctors and other health personnel, over 13,000 healthcare workers left the country for the UK in the past year. A new report by the UK government showed that the 13,609 Nigerian healthcare workers granted working visas within the period are second only to the 42,966 from India….
The Chief Medical Director (CMD) of the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Prof. Adetokunbo Fabamwo, has cried out over the mass resignation of Nurses from Nigeria to developed countries. Truetells Nigeria reports that Fabamwo made this known while speaking at the opening of the fifth Anniversary and Scientific Conference of the Retired Nurse Administrators…
A group of terrorists on Tuesday night attacked the Kuje Medium Custodial Centre in Abuja, the nation’s capital with bombs in an apparent move to gain entry into the facility and free some of its members. A high calibre bomb had first gone off at about 10:25pm followed by a second and third blasts as well as…
The management of the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, has introduced a new rule compelling patients to pay N1,000 daily each as electricity bill. In an internal memo, the hospital management claimed the new charge on patients was introduced because of the hikes in electricity tariff and cost of diesel. The…
