Health: NMA Says 5,000 Nigerians seek overseas treatment monthly

                                   

OVER 5,000 Nigerians travel to India and other countries monthly for medical treatment, the Nigeria Medical Association said on Monday.

As a result, Nigeria loses over $500m annually, with $260m going to India.

The President of NMA, Dr. Osahon Enabulele, WHO said this at a press briefing to herald the Physicians’ Week with the theme: ‘Prescription Rights—its Abuse and implications for the Health of Nigerians’, regretted the situation.

 

Ritual Killing: Okada Man Sells A Nurse For N10,000.

 

A commercial motorcyclist, identified simply as Ifeanyi, has been arrested for allegedly handing over a nurse, Mrs. Helen Ilonge, to ritual killers after collecting N10, 000.

On Tuesday last week took Ifeanyi’s motorcycle on her way to Igoli along the Ogoja-Ikom Highway in Ogoja LGA.

Ilonge, the coordinator of Primary Health Care in Bekwarra Local Government Area of Cross River State, was coming from a programme at the Assemblies of God Church, Abakaliki in Ebonyi State, and had alighted from a vehicle at Okpongrinya junction before taking the bike.

 

NJC Disolved Tribunal Sitting Over Oshiomole's Re-election On Allegation of Corruption

The Justice Suleman Ambrusa-led three-man Edo State Election Petitions panel hearing the petition of the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the July 14, 2012 governorship election, Major General Charles Airhiavbere (retd), against the declaration of Governor Adams Oshiomhole as winner, has been reportedly dissolved.

Other members of the panel, which news of its dissolution came on Sunday, two days to the commencement of hearing on the remaining aspect of the petition scheduled for tomorrow, following the end of pre-hearing proceedings two weeks ago, were Justices Esor Teetito and Danlami Senchi.

It was gathered that the dissolution came on the heels a petition by some lawyers, acting for Airhiavbere, to the National Judicial Commission (NJC), alleging that the panel had been compromised and had, therefore, lost confidence in it.

Court Jails Baale of Igbo-Owe

Baale of Igbo-Owe, Akinyele Local Government Area of Oyo State, Chief Olaniyi Gbadamosi, was on Friday sentenced to three months imprisonment on an allegation of fraud which borders on sale of land.

At the Magistrates’ Court 13, on charge number MI/798C2012, Chief Gbadamosi was sentenced to three months imprisonment with hard labour or an option of fine of N20,000.

SSS Summons Senator Almed Zanna Over Boko Haram Commander

The State Security Service has summoned a serving Senator, Ahmed Zanna, over his alleged involvement with the violent Islamic sect, Boko Haram.

The summons is in connection with the arrest last week of a suspected member of the group, Shuaibu Bama, in a house believed to be the senator’s.

4 Nigeria youth bag awards

The Nigerian flag systematically went up to the rooftop of the Birchwood Hotel and Conference centre in Boksburg, Johannesburg, South Africa, last week, when some Nigerian secondary school students drawn from Rivers, Benue and Akwa Ibom held their own and won four awards at the Eskom Expo for Young scientists.

Jake Finkbonner's miracle cure makes 'Lily of the Mohawks' first Native American saint

VATICAN CITY — Jake Finkbonner was so close to death after flesh-eating bacteria infected him through a cut on his lip that his parents had last rites performed and were discussing donating the 5-year-old's tiny organs.

  

Jake's 2006 cure from the infection was deemed medically inexplicable by the Vatican, the "miracle" needed to propel a 17th century Native American, Kateri Tekakwitha, on to sainthood. Kateri will be canonized on Sunday along with six other people, the first Native American to receive the honor.

Jake is fully convinced, as is the church, that the prayers his family and community offered to Kateri, including the placement of a relic of the soon-to-be saint on Jake's leg, were responsible for his survival.