14 September 2026
States

Nigeria’s Drug Market Spins Out of Control

Doctors in Lagos say Nigeria is facing a new health crisis as cases of kidney, liver and heart disease are increasingly being recorded in people under 40, conditions once associated mainly with older patients. Prof. Faduyile, a consultant pathologist at Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, said that widespread abuse of drugs such as tramadol, coupled

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Universities

UNIZIK says the man who died after the jump is not their student

Nnamdi Azikiwe University (UNIZIK) in Awka, Anambra State, has said the man who died after jumping from a three-storey building in Ifite-Awka is not one of their students. Reports say the man, Kenneth Oyeaka Rapuchukwu, jumped from the Seat of Wisdom Lodge on June 5, 2025, after taking an illegal substance. However, the university, through

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