Kano state Ministry of Health, in it’s determination to ameliorate financial constraint, hypertension patients were facing ,the board has resolved to offered free enrollment of vulnerable hypertension patients at Kano State Contributory Healthcare Management Agency, (KSCHMA). This was just as the ministry said that The prevalence of hypertension in Nigeria is 27.6 and it has found that in Kano the most prevalent Cardiovascular risk factor was hypertension which is 28.5% out of which nearly two-thirds (60.7%) of these hypertensives were newly discovered. The State Commissioner of Health, Dr. Abubakar Labaran Yusuf, made this known on Friday at a press conference…
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The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMET) has disclosed likely 14 local government areas of the state may witnessed possibility of high-risk flooding of the 44 local government areas (LGAs) of the state.This was just as the NIMET ,that the likely these LGAs,are include Rimin Gado, Tofa, Kabo, Madobi, Garum Malam, Bebeji, Rano, Dawakin Kudu, Warawa, Wudil, Sumaila, Ajingi, Kura, and Dala.However,the NIMET Kano/Jigawa Territorial ,Dr. Nuradeen Abdullahi, stated this at a Disaster Risk Management Stakeholders Coordination Meeting on Seasonal Climate Prediction and Annual Flood Outlook in Kano.Dr.Abdullahi further added that five other LGAs—Karaye, Takai, Bunkure, Dawakin Tofa, and Makoda—were moderately prone…
Representatives of the diverse host communities and ethnic groups at the Dangote Cement Plc, Obajana; and that of Dangote Coal Mines Limited, Ankpa, Kogi State, expressed their excitement over the Food Intervention Programme of the Aliko Dangote Foundation (ADF). In an outpouring of appreciation, a Monarch, the Bajana of Obajana, Engr Idowu Isenibi, described the Food Intervention Programme of the Aliko Dangote Foundation (ADF) as timely. Obajana is home to West African largest cement factory, the Dangote Cement Plc, Obajana.“It is coming at the time Nigerians are in need. We are humbled by this generosity, but like Oliver Twist, we…