TheHILL | NEWS | November 26. Member representing Etinan/ Nsit Ibom /Nsit Ubium Federal Constituency, Mr Onofiok Luke, has decried the drop in the number of medical personnel in the country. Delivering a keynote address on the theme: “STEMMING THE TIDE OF BRAIN DRAIN IN NIGERIA: THE WAY FORWARD” at the National Executive Council meeting […]
TheHILL | Agency Report | NOVEMBER 26. The World Health Organization on Friday declared the recently-discovered B.1.1.529 strain of Covid-19 to be a variant of concern, renaming it Omicron. “Based on the evidence presented indicative of a detrimental change in Covid-19 epidemiology… the WHO has designated B.1.1.529 as a variant of concern, named Omicron,” […]
TheHILL | HEALTH | OCTOBER 27. Member representing Etinan/ Nsit Ibom/ Nsit Ubium Federal Constituency, Mr Onofiok Luke has warned about the increasing indulgence of the populace in hard drugs consumption in Nigeria. Delivering his remarks as Chairman at the 5th National Symposium on Drugs and Drug Policy in Nigeria to mark the 30th Anniversary […]
TheHILL | HEALTH | OCTOBER 18. Civil servants, who fail to get vaccinated, will have no choice but to pay N79,000 per week for COVID-19 tests in private testing laboratories, TheHILL reports. The rate for the test was obtained from the payment portal of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control on Sunday. The Federal Government, […]
TheHILL | LEGISLATURE | OCTOBER 11 The member representing Etinan/Nsit Ibom/Nsit Ubium Federal Constituency Rt. Hon.(Barr.) Onofiok Luke has commended Governor Udom Emmanuel for turning around healthcare delivery in the state through massive revamping and equipping of hospitals. He has equally stressed on the need to extend same gesture to the Primary Healthcare level. This, […]
TheHILL | HEALTH | OCTOBER 11. The member representing Etinan/Nsit Ibom/Nsit Ubium Federal Constituency Rt. Hon.(Barr.) Onofiok Luke has commended Governor Udom Emmanuel for turning around healthcare delivery in the state through massive revamping and equipping of hospitals. He has equally stressed on the need to extend same gesture to the Primary Healthcare level. This, […]
TheHILL | HEALTH | September 17. Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, has approved over N5Billion to revive failed Prof Kersley Harrison Hospital and the Dental and Maxillofacial Hospital, both located in Port Harcourt. The State Commissioner for Health, Prof Princewill Chike disclosed this as a fallout of Wednesday’s Rivers SEC meeting presided over by […]
TheHILL | HEALTH | AUG. 23, 2021 Amid COVID-19 third wave, Lagos State Government has disclosed that over 500 death cases have been recorded so far at various isolation centres across the state. It added that the COVID-19 third wave and other parts of Nigeria are experiencing was as a direct result of […]
… Drums support for MAINTAIN PEACE MOVEMENT TheHILL| HEALTH | AUGUST 6. Senator Effiong Bob has observed that most people in the state do not observe the simple safety protocol of hand washing, use of nose mask, social distancing and the use of hand sanitizer hence the upsurge in the number of people contacting […]
TheHILL | HEALTH | JULY 12, 2021 Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Sunday said the state is experiencing a steep increase in the number of daily confirmed COVID-19 cases. Sanwo-Olu made this known on the Update of the Coronavirus pandemic situation in the state. He said that the test positivity rate went up […]