Doctor Who Gave Birth To Twins In Coma Battling COVID-19 Returns Home [Photos, Video]
An NHS consultant whose premature twins were delivered by caesarean while she lay in a coma battling Covid-19 is finally back home safely with her family. Perpetual Uke gave birth while on a ventilator in an induced coma and did not see her newborn babies until she came round sixteen days later. The twins, Palmer, a girl, and Pascal, a boy, stayed in a...
Over 850 Out Of 100,000 Women Die During Childbirth In Abia — TCI, Says Low Budget Responsible
The Challenge Initiative (TCI) a non-governmental organisation platform has said that about 850 out of 100,000 women die during delivery annually in public facilities in Abia state. TCI also said about 177 women die from 100,000 births from private facilities. The organization while speaking with ABN TV through its Demand Generation Technical Lead, Priscilla Omang Acholonu, in Umuahia during a seminar...
6 NYSC Members Test Positive For COVID-19 In Abia
No fewer than six members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) have tested positive for COVID-19 in Abia State. The six positive cases were recorded from the ongoing testing of the potential corps members prior to camping. Commissioner for Information in the state, Chief John Okiyi Kalu says State Government is fully supporting the Corps with full epidemiology, surveillance, and...
6 Side Effects Of Not Drinking Enough Water
Drinking water often helps to maintain a healthy balance. Mild dehydration can decrease one’s energy level and mental functioning and increase stress on the body while severe dehydration can have far more damaging effects. To avoid dehydration drink at least eight glasses of water every day as an adult. The importance of water to the mechanics of the human body cannot...
Grandmother, 90 First To Receive Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine In Britain
A 90-year-old British grandmother became the first person in a Western country to receive an approved coronavirus vaccine, as Britain rolled out Pfizer-BioNTech’s drug in the biggest inoculation drive in its history. Margaret Keenan, who turns 91 next week, said it was “the best early birthday present” and added: “My advice to anyone offered the vaccine is to take it....
FG Imposes New COVID-19 Restrictions, Shuts Down Nightclubs, Recreational Centres
The Federal Government has imposed new restrictions amid the rising cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) in various parts of the country. Mr Boss Mustapha, who is the Chairman of the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19, announced this on Monday at the briefing of the task force in Abuja, the nation’s capital. He explained that the directives were advisories issued to state...
Buhari, Osinbajo, Others To Take COVID-19 Vaccine On Live Telecast
The Executive Director, National Primary Health Care Development Agency, Faisal Shuaib, has said the President Muhammadu Buhari; Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo; the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha; and other prominent Nigerians will be among the first set to receive the COVID-19 vaccine on live television to help drive awareness. He said at the weekly press briefing by...
Ex-FIFA President Sepp Blatter Hospitalised
Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter has been taken to hospital, a Swiss newspaper said Thursday, but media insisted the disgraced official’s life was not in danger. “My father is in hospital. He’s getting better every day. But he needs time and rest,” his daughter Corinne Blatter Andenmatten was quoted as saying by Blick, which said the 84-year-old was in a serious...
Pope Francis’ Doctor Dies From COVID Complications
The personal doctor of Pope Francis has died from COVID-19 complications. According to the Catholic News Agency, Fabrizio Soccorsi, 78, died at Rome’s Gemelli Hospital after he was admitted in late December. While he also was dealing with an “oncological pathology,” COVID was the cause of death, the Vatican’s newspaper L’Osservatore Romano reported. Soccorsi was named Francis’ personal physician in August 2015. It...
Buba Marwa Appointed New Chairman NDLEA
President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed former military administrator of Lagos and Borno states, Gen. Mohammed Buba Marwa (retd) as the new Chairman/CEO of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA. General Marwa, who is a close ally of President Buhari, worked as Chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee for the Elimination of Drug Abuse, PACEDA, between 2018 and December, 2020. The committee was...
