By DIANA CHUKWUKA EFFORTS to improve mental healthcare access in Nigeria received a boost on Monday as the Cope and Live Mental Health Awareness Foundation and the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital Foundation signed a Memorandum of Understanding in Enugu. The agreement, anchored on the “Total Care Mind and Body Initiative,” seeks to deliver integrated […]
By MELVIN KOFFA THE Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has dissolved the state executive committees in Enugu, Delta and Rivers states and replaced them with caretaker committees following the defection of the states’ governors to the All Progressives Congress (APC). The decision was taken by the party’s National Working Committee (NWC), led by Tanimu Turaki, on […]
The System Killed Her Too NIGERIA has witnessed yet another preventable tragedy—one that exposes, yet again, the lethal consequences of police negligence, cultural complacency, and a justice system that routinely sacrifices victims of gender-based violence at the altar of “family settlement.” Nineteen-year-old Uloma Nwangwu walked into the Umabor Divisional Police Headquarters on 28 November seeking […]
By OBI DAVIES PANIC has erupted across Ezimo and neighbouring Obollo-Eke in Udenu Local Government Area of Enugu State after armed kidnappers launched a series of violent assaults over the weekend, shooting several women and abducting multiple residents. The attacks, which occurred on Saturday and Sunday, targeted travellers and residents moving between the two communities. […]
By DIANA CHUKWUKA THE National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has trained patent and proprietary medicine dealers on spotting, avoiding, and reporting suspicious, substandard, and unregistered medicines. Dr. Festus Ukadike, NAFDAC’s South-East Zone Director, said the Enugu workshop on Wednesday was part of the agency’s Stakeholders’ Sensitisation programme for members of the […]