Surprising Health Benefits You Don’t Know About These Spices

If you want to spice up your life, add some root, bark and plant derivatives to your diet. Herbs and spices add some pep to any meal, and many come with proven heart healthy benefits and can even ease pain, including post-workout soreness.

Boy dies after taking deworming pill in Ebonyi

  A five-year-old boy and nursery 2 pupils of Immaculate Heart Conception School in Uwalakande village, Okpoitumo Autonomous Community, Jerome Nwome, has died after taking a tablet of deworming pill in Izzi LGA of Ebonyi State. Narrating the incident, the victim’s mother, Mrs.

Stroke, global leading cause of death, disability, says expert

The Chief Executive of Stroke Action Foundation, Mrs Rita Melifonwu said on Saturday that stroke was the leading cause of death and disability globally. Melifonwu told the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja, ahead of the World Stroke Day 2017, scheduled for Sunday, October 29.

Gov. Ihedioha, Madumere urge Imolites to invest at home

  The Governor of Imo State, Rt. Hon  Emeka Ihedioha and former Deputy Governor of Imo State, Prince Eze Madumere have called on Imolites at home and in Diaspora  to come home and invest, saying that edevelopment is everybody’s business. Governor Ihedioha made

Nine dead, 100 hospitalised after consuming lambanog liquor

Nine people died and more than 100 were hospitalised after drinking local liquor made from coconut sap in two separate incidents in the Philippines, police said Monday. Eight people died after drinking a local brand of the traditional liquor, known as lambanog, at

What Imo Ife Alumni Association did differently at their end of the year get-together

Month of December no doubt is the peak and end of all group activities, including governmental, non-governmental organisations and of course Alumni Associations are not left out. For Obafemi Awolowo University Alumni Association, Owerri-Imo State branch, it was not left out in the

Passenger slumps, dies at Lagos airport

A passenger, identified as Chukwuma Anthony Ezeh, on Wednesday slumped and died at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos. An official source at the MMIA arrival terminal told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the passenger slumped on arrival from China

NAFDAC gets FEC approval of N307.5 million for operational vehicles

The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved N307.5 million for the purchase of operational vehicles for the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC). Minister of State for Health, Adeleke Mamora, briefed State House correspondents after FEC meeting, presided by

‘N1.5bn hospital linked to Okorocha’s aide’, Court orders final forfeiture

A federal high court sitting in Owerri, Imo state capital, has ordered final forfeiture of Dews of Hope Hospital, Owerri, a N1.5 billion state-of-the-art 200-bed hospital, allegedly linked to an aide of Rochas Okorocha, a former governor of Imo state and serving senator.

Patient infected with monkeypox in England after visiting Nigeria

A person is being treated for monkeypox in England, a rare viral infection similar to the eradicated disease smallpox, public health authorities have confirmed. Public Health England (PHE) says monkeypox is not very transmissible and the patient is not thought to pose a