Health

A pharmacist has taken to social media to alert the public over the circulation of a counterfeit drug in the market. She advised that people looking to buy drugs patronise the proper sources. See her post below.

A Nigerian Soldier, Emmanuel, has who is down with kidney failure has cried out for help!!! The young soldier who joined the Nigerian Army in 2013 was deployed to Adamawa in since 2014 to fight Boko Haram Terrorists. He was diagnosed with kidney failure in September 2018. He said he was the one taking care of his parents while he was active, now that he needs help as his parents can’t afford anything. Emmanuel is from Isu LGA in Imo State.

The Anambra State House of Assembly has passed a bill banning marriages involving people living with sickle cell anemia or incompatible genotypes. The bill, sponsored by the member representing Anaocha II state constituency, Charles Ezeani and 15 others, seeks to eradicate sickle cell disease in the state by checkmating marriages among people with incompatible genotypes. The law to be cited as Sickle Cell Disease Control and Eradication Repeal law, barred parents, guardians, traditional rulers or group of persons from giving out their children/wards in marriages without presentation of a certificate of verification by a qualified sickle cell expert of their …

A woman from the United Arab Emirates, UAE, who went into a coma after she was injured in an accident in 1991 has woken up from the 27-year-long coma.   Munira Abdulla was 32 when she was involved in an accident. She was in a car driven by her brother-in-law after she picked up her son from school.   During the short journey, the car she was travelling in collided with a bus. Omar Webair, who was then just four years old, was sitting in the back of the vehicle with his mother but he was unscathed because his mother cradled him in …

A 26-year-old cocaine addict simply identified as Lizzy, has recounted how her boyfriend got her into drug addiction. Lizzy’s story was shared by Lagos pastor, Tony Rapu, whose foundation is working to get her off drug addiction. In two videos shared online, Lizzy who went to A-list schools like Vivian Fowler, Caleb Nursery and Primary  School, recounted how her boyfriend introduced her to crack. She also narrated how she resorted to begging and prostitution just to feed her addiction. ”I am lizzy. I have been here now for seven years. I have been seeing different rehabs and I have refused to go …

A man and his wife have cried out for help after the charm he used to enlarge his penis size gave him a size that is way bigger than what was anticipated.   The man reportedly went in search of a penis enlargement charm after his wife complained about his less than satisfactory performance in the bedroom.   The couple, from Mahwelereng in Mokopane, Limpopo, South Africa, has been married for 11 years. But the wife said her husband became sexually weak three years ago.   The wife began to complain about his weak sexual game and he secretly sought out a native …

It may probably sound like a fairy tale to hear there exists a woman who has more than one vagina and one womb, but Elizabeth Amoah has lived with this condition for quite some time and has now decided to let the world know about it. Elizabeth also known as ‘Special Lady’, disclosed she has had to undergo seven medical surgeries after she was diagnosed of having sexual complications. “I discovered I had a double womb and a double vagina canal in 2015 after an MRI scan, so I had to undergo about 7 surgeries,” she told Giovani Caleb. The …

A Vietnamese nurse who caused 117 children to be infected with genital warts has been sentenced to 10 years in jail for negligence. The Hung Yen Province People’s Court in northern Vietnam on Wednesday, found Hoang Thi Hien, 50, guilty of violating medical regulations and prohibited her from practicing for three years after her release. She also has to pay compensation of more than VND2.2 billion ($94,850) to 111 out of the 117 victims. The parents of the remaining six children could not prove that her service was the only source of their infection. The court said Hien ran an …

A woman has been arrested on suspicion of raping an elderly dementia patient at a care home in Florida, USA. Guettie Belizaire, 39, was reportedly found naked in the man’s room at around 5am. The man later told police: “She jumped on me and raped me.” Investigators say DNA evidence also links her with the alleged crime, at the Brookshire Assisted Living Facility in Melbourne. Belizaire’s co-workers said the man – who has not been identified – was “distraught and confused”. They were suspicious because she had been missing for around 90 minutes before she was found getting dressed in …

A senior officer of the Nigeria Customs Service has died after he was attacked by a swarm of bees while on patrol duty. Abba Abubakar, an officer operating at the Seme customs command, along Ashipa axis of Badagry, Lagos, met his untimely death Tuesday after he was stung by the bees, the agency said in a statement. “With sadness and deep sorrow, the Seme Area Command announces the death of our colleague CSC Abba, A.,” Saidu Abdullahi, the spokesperson of the Seme customs command, said in the statement on Wednesday. “The sad event occurred yesterday due to an attack by …