May 31, 2022
Nigeria: Triggering the Next Global Health Crisis - Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
In two weeks, the World Trade Organization's 164 member nations-from Nigeria to Nicaragua and Angola to Argentina-will vote on an unprecedented petition to waive intellectual… Read more »
Nigeria: Monkeypox - No U.S.-Controlled Laboratories in Nigeria, Says Embassy
United States government has denied allegations regarding the use of US-assisted Nigerian laboratories in the spread of monkeypox in Nigeria Read more »
May 25, 2022
Nigeria: Nigeria Receives 4.4 Million Doses of Covid-19 Vaccines
The federal government yesterday received 4,400,000 doses of Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccines donated by the Government and people of Spain to Nigeria. Read more »
May 24, 2022
Nigeria: New Health Insurance Act Doesn't Impose Telecoms Tax, Says NHIA
The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) has said the new National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) Act recently signed into law by President Muhammadu Buhari does not make… Read more »
May 20, 2022
Africa: Experts Move to Adopt New Strategies to Boost Post-Covid-19 Air Transport in Africa
For one week, aviation experts from Africa and Indian Ocean (AFI) region met in Abuja to brainstorm on how to revive air transport system in Africa, which has been devastated by… Read more »
May 19, 2022
Nigeria: Ensuring Universal Health Coverage in Gombe
During his inauguration as the fourth executive Governor of Gombe State on May 29, 2019, Alhaji Muhammad Inuwa Yahaya vowed to provide an enabling and conducive environment aimed… Read more »
May 18, 2022
Nigeria: Inside Ojukwu University Teaching Hospital - Tales of Mismanagement, Malfeasance
The staff of Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University Teaching Hospital, Amaku, Awka, Anambra, are worried about the financial malfeasance that has gripped the institution since… Read more »
May 12, 2022
Nigeria: Buhari Commends Okwuosa On Inauguration of Dialysis Centre in Anambra
President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Oilserv, Engineer Emeka Okwuosa, on the inauguration of a world-class hospital built by his… Read more »
May 03, 2022
Nigeria: Edo Flags Off Neonatal Mortality Initiative, Trains Medical Personnel
The Wife of Edo State Governor, Mrs. Betsy Obaseki, has flagged off the 'Helping Babies Survive' training aimed at reducing the incidence of neonatal mortality in the state. Read more »
May 02, 2022
Nigeria: 29 Imo Communities Abandon Female Genital Mutilation Practice
As the world goes against the practice of female genital mutilation (FGM), 29 communities in Oguta Local Government of Imo State have reiterated their firm decision to abandon the… Read more »
December 07, 2021
Nigeria: Tackling Sanitation and Hygiene Challenges Beyond Policies
Omolabake Fasogbon in this report, writes about individual's quota to the quest to hygiene and sanitation challenge and expedite the attainment of Sustainable Development Goal six… Read more »
April 07, 2020
Nigeria: Averting Drug Scarcity in Nigeria
For now, government should remove bottlenecks on drug importation Read more »
March 12, 2009
Nigeria: Test Tube Baby Clocks 13
Over a decade ago, Mr. and Mrs. Hosea Kupchi were very sad couple as they could not have a baby of their own. Due to the societal pressure, many ideas ran through their minds… Read more »
July 12, 2007
Libya: Supreme Court Upholds HIV Death Sentences
If the Libyan Government fails to grant prerogative of mercy to the five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor accused of injecting more than 400 Libyan children with HIV in… Read more »