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Doctors at Cedarcrest Hospital, in Abuja, have successfully operated on a 13-month-old baby, who was viciously attacked by a pit bull at Mambilla Barracks, Abuja, on Tuesday, October 8. It was reported that the black dog, believed to be a pit bull, reportedly broke free from its cage and wanderedContinue Reading

Access Bank Plc. has hit one billion naira daily in loan value through its expanded digital lending portfolio. Mr Victor Etuokwu, the bank’s Executive Director, Retail Banking, stated this in Lagos on Tuesday. Etuokwu said its expanded digital lending portfolio, which gives Nigerians quick and 24/7 access to funds forContinue Reading

A man on Monday drove a body to a police station in northern California and claimed he killed four people, authorities said. The man was arrested by Mt Shasta Police, near California’s northern border with Oregon, who in turn alerted Roseville Police, some 300 kilometres south of Mt Shasta, policeContinue Reading

The Coalition of Civil Society Network on HIV/AIDS in Nigeria (COCSHAN) says there is no local Anti Retroviral (ARV) brand in the country at the moment. Mr Ikenna Nwakamma, the first Co-chairman of the society, said this in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday while reactingContinue Reading

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has been informed that Swissmedic, the National Medicines Regulatory Authority of Switzerland has detected low levels of N-Nitrosodimethylamine (N-NDMA), a genotoxic impurity in Zantac injection 50mg/5ml batch number 669. Genotoxic substances such as N-NDMA are known to be potentiallyContinue Reading

The Managing Director of the Bank of Industry, Mr Olukayode Pitan, has urged State and Federal Governments to establish more universities of technology to drive development. Pitan gave the advice during the ancillary meeting at the 25th Nigerian Economic Summit in Abuja on Tuesday. The 2019 summit has as itsContinue Reading