National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA) screens 1,000 for HIV AIDS in Jos

No fewer than 1,000 persons benefited from a free medical check, including HIV and AIDS screening, conducted by the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA) in Jos on Tuesday.

During the exercise, conducted by Dr. Priscilla Ibekwe, Deputy Director at NACA, the beneficiaries’ blood pressure was checked while some were screened for diabetes and other ailments.

Ibekwe told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the exercise was funded by “Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

A former president of ASUU Professor Festus Iyayi, Dies in an Auto Crash

A former president of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and a renowned writer, Professor Festus Iyayi, has died in an auto crash on his way to Kano for a meeting of the union.

The accident occurred on Tuesday at about 12.30pm, local time, at Banda village near Lokoja the Kogi State capital when a security backup Hilux of the Kogi State government had a head-on collision with the car conveying the professor and other members of the union.

Man Arrested for Slayings of Wife, 5 Year-Old Daughter (Video Inside)

Man Arrested for Slayings of Wife, 5 Year-Old Daughter

Joanna Lopez, 36, and Mia Lopez, 5, were found shot to death on Saturday night, according to Annie Copado, who said the older victim was her daughter. Joanna`s husband and Mia`s father, Johnny Lopez, a 33-year-old man from Hemet, was arrested Sunday and was believed to be responsible for the double homicide and a throat slashing nearby. Kimberly Cheng reports from Hemet for the KTLA News at 10 on Monday, Nov. 11, 2013.