FG converts University of Medical Sciences Teaching Hospital to Federal University Teaching Hospital Akure

FG converts University of Medical Sciences Teaching Hospital to Federal University Teaching Hospital Akure

By Joe Udo AKURE (CONVERSEER) – The University of Medical Sciences Teaching Hospital has been converted to Federal University Teaching Hospital, Akure, Ondo State. The Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Prof. Muhammad Ali Pate, who represented the President witnessed the unveiling, handover, and signing of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the transfer….

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PadBank Mobile Outreach Empowers Women, Girls in Cross River

PadBank Mobile Outreach Empowers Women, Girls in Cross River

Coordinator of PadBank, Archibong Bassey, during the outreach programme on Tuesday. By Asuquo Cletus PadBank, a humanitarian initiative committed to ending period poverty and promoting menstrual hygiene, has extended its monthly mobile outreach to Ekot Etonko community in Calabar South Local Government Area of Cross River State, distributing sanitary pads and educating women and schoolgirls…

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Cross River RUWATSSA marks 2025 Global Handwashing Day with theme ‘Be a Handwashing Hero’

Cross River RUWATSSA marks 2025 Global Handwashing Day with theme ‘Be a Handwashing Hero’

By Emmanuel Ita CALABAR (CONVERSEER) – The Cross River State Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Agency (RUWATSSA) has commemorated the 2025 Global Handwashing Day, issuing a call for students to become advocates of hygiene in their schools and communities. The event, held on Wednesday, October 22, 2025, at Government Science Secondary School, Ikot Effanga Mkpa,…

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German official seeks stricter rules on medical cannabis

German official seeks stricter rules on medical cannabis

BERLIN (DPA, CONVERSEER) – The consumption of cannabis should be controlled more strictly in Germany, while remaining legal, the government representative on the issue said in media remarks published on Tuesday. “We are currently seeing evidently undesirable trends,” Narcotic Drugs Commissioner Hendrick Streeck told the Berlin daily Tagesspiegel. The permitted 25 grams of medical cannabis…

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