Health

At least 50 lives have been lost, following a measles outbreak in the Pacific Island of Samoa last month.

Nigerian Government will not partner with the popular surgeon, Dr Jeremiah Abalaka, who claimed to have discovered a cure to HIV/AIDS.

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, Oyo State Command, on Thursday said it has destroyed about 40 hectares of hemp plantation at Aba Tade, in the Oluyole Local Government Area of Oyo State.

In almost two decades, a new strain (sub-type) of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), has been discovered by a team of scientists from Abbott, a global healthcare company.

It is not yet over in Bauchi State as a disease suspected to be Yellow fever was reported to have killed 10 persons in different villages of Ningi Local Government Area of Bauchi State.

Following an appeal by one Ms Isioma Adeyemi who had requested to change her legal status from female to male due to the length of her clitoris, Nigeria's Supreme Court had declared that women in Nigeria who have clitorises longer than 7,5 centimetres (3 inches) can now be legally considered as men.