Health

A man is fighting for his life after being bitten by one of the world’s most poisonous spiders in a toilet. Orlando Jimenez Jimenez, 31, is suffering from kidney and…

An ancient African genome has been sequenced for the first time. Researchers extracted DNA from a 4,500-year-old skull that was discovered in the highlands of Ethiopia. A comparison with genetic…

The Ministry of Health has discredited reports of another case of Ebola in Calabar Cross Rivers, affirming that Nigeria is Ebola free. There was an Ebola scare in Nigeria yesterday…

10 persons have been quarantined in Calabar, Cross River state after a patient at the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, UCTH died of symptoms of the deadly disease on October…

This baby was born with one eye in the middle of his forehead at a private hospital in the north-eastern town of El Senbellawein, in Egypt recently and doctors don’t…

12-year-old Elijah Zachary Lamaiyan Sime, a student at Lamaiyan Academy in Nairobi received a standing ovation from hundreds of delegates after delivering the opening remarks at a United Nations conference…

Born with most of his brain and skull missing, baby Jaxon Emmett Buell was not expected to live. In fact his parents had been told to abort him when doctors…

Ms Shonibare is right after all. This report below by Reuters confirms that U.S. and European Union diplomats were disappointed Nigeria Government didn’t send anyone to the event.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced that polio is no longer endemic in Nigeria. WHO announced this via its twitter handle. More tweets below.