LAGOS MARCH 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The hope to migrate by health and care workers with their dependents from Nigeria and other countries to the United Kingdom have been dashed with the ban to that effect on Monday. The ban by the UK Government is coming over two months after similar stoppage of dependents migrating to the UK…
LAGOS MAY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Junior doctors are being lured to Australia with job adverts promising A$240,000 (£127,600) salaries and 20 days off a month to “travel, swim and surf in the sun”. In a reference to the popular autobiography and TV series This is Going to Hurt, which was written by Dr Adam Kay, a former…
LAGOS APRIL 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The United Kingdom has placed Nigeria and 53 other countries on the red list of countries that should not be actively targeted for recruitment by health and social care employers. The announcement was contained in the revised code of practice for the international recruitment of health and social care personnel in England….
LAGOS JANUARY 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Africa’s largest economy, Nigeria, is in the process of introducing new banknotes for the first time in more than 20 years. The move is an attempt to reignite confidence in the currency, the naira, which is under severe pressure. With inflation at more than 20%, people are struggling to cope with the…
LAGOS DECEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Dr Titus Oyedele, head of clinical services and training at Babcock University Teaching Hospital (BUTH) in Ilishan-Remo, Ogun State, has expressed worry over the issue of brain drain in Nigeria. He mentioned that approximately 50 doctors and 90 nurses had departed the institution in search of better chances abroad. Oyedele revealed the…
LAGOS AUGUST 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A pregnant lady, identified only as Chinaza, has approached doctors at the National Hospital in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, to seek buyer for her unborn baby. PUNCH Metro gathered that when the 23-year-old lady got pregnant, she left her parents house in Imo State to live with her friend in Lagos…
LAGOS MAY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Seven people, including a neurosurgeon and a psychiatrist, are facing charges in Argentina related to the death of soccer star Diego Maradona. The two doctors, along with two nurses, a nurse coordinator, another doctor and a psychologist, are accused of being negligent with Maradona and conducting themselves in an “inappropriate, deficient and…
LAGOS JULY 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Doctors under the aegis of the Medical Guild in Lagos State are set to begin three days warning strike from Monday, over issues that affect their safety and welfare. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Medical Guild is the Association of Medical Doctors under the employment of the Lagos State…