Vaccine scares have emerged as a major challenge to global efforts to eliminate preventable diseases, with rumours and conspiracy theories proliferating faster than health ... Read more »

Nigerian and South African scientists have joined hundreds of other experts from more than 80 other countries to launch the Scientific Declaration on Polio Eradication – a ... Read more »

The country's politicians are divided over calls by the Sultan of Sokoto to grant amnesty to members of the Boko Haram insurgence group. Read more »

A new report from the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Global Health Policy in the Second Obama Term, analyzes seven important dimensions of a complex, widening U.S. ... Read more »

The Committee to Protect Journalists has condemned the revocation of the broadcast license of Wazobia FM and has called on the National Broadcasting Corporation to immediately ... Read more »

Two journalists and a cleric were granted bail after being charged over a controversial radio program on polio vaccines days before deadly attacks on polio clinics. Read more »

The police have arrested three journalists over their alleged role in the killing of nine female health workers. Read more »

The state has condemned the killing of nine female health workers shot dead at community health centres during separate attacks in Kano State. Read more »

The Egyptian government has said it will carry out a polio vaccination drive in Cairo for children under five after the virus was discovered in the city's sewers. Read more »

Nigerians travelling abroad would be compelled to take the oral polio vaccine beginning in May next year, said Ray Nihar, an official of the World Health Organisation. Read more »