April 30, 2023
Nigeria: Fresh Crisis Looms As Resident Doctors Issue Govt Two-Week Ultimatum Over Demands
The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has threatened to embark on strike if the federal government fails to meet its demands within two weeks. Read more »
April 25, 2023
Nigeria: Nigeria Not Among 8 African Countries Expected to Meet 2025 Global Technical Strategy Target - WHO
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said that Nigeria is not among the eight countries in Africa expected to meet the 2025 Global Technical Strategy target on malaria incidence… Read more »
April 23, 2023
Nigeria: Meningitis Kills 118 in 22 States
Cerebrospinal meningitis has killed at least 118 persons in 22 states across 79 local government areas in the country. Read more »
April 18, 2023
Nigeria: NAFDAC Approves Clinical Malaria Vaccine for Children
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has granted registration approval for R21 Malaria Vaccine (Recombinant, Adjuvanted). Read more »
April 17, 2023
Nigeria: Nigeria Approves Malaria Vaccine
National Agency For Food And Drug Administration And Control (NAFDAC) has granted registration approval for R21 Malaria Vaccine (Recombinant, Adjuvanted). Read more »
April 07, 2023
Nigeria: 66.6% Eligible Population Vaccinated With Covid-19 Vaccines - Govt
The federal government has said a total of 71,477,351 Nigeria residents have been fully vaccinated with COVID-19 vaccines as at April 1, 2023, representing 61.6 percent of the… Read more »
March 12, 2023
Nigeria: Nigeria's Annual Trade Volume Rises to Near Pre-Covid Level
The 169 per cent year-on-year increase in trade surplus recorded by the federal government for 2022 has almost put Nigeria's annual trade volume at the positive threshold of the… Read more »
March 06, 2023
Nigeria: WellaHealth Promises Affordable, Quality Healthcare in Nigeria
Nigeria-based WellaHealth, a technology-driven healthcare startup, is democratising access to quality and timely healthcare through basic health insurance coverage in Nigeria. Read more »
February 27, 2023
Nigeria: One Woman Dies Every Two Minutes Due to Pregnancy or Childbirth - UN Agencies
*70% of maternal deaths occur in Sub-Saharan Africa Read more »
February 16, 2023
Nigeria: Nigeria, U.S. Agree to Spend Alamieyeseigha's Repatriated $1m Loot On Healthcare in Bayelsa
Nigeria and the United States of America have entered into an agreement to invest nearly $1 million repatriated from the US in the healthcare sector of Bayelsa State. Read more »
February 09, 2023
Nigeria: Death From Unlatched-Containers
The regulators should be up to their responsibility Read more »
Nigeria: Engaging Boys, Men in Conversation to End Female Genital Mutilation By 2030
With just seven years left to achieve the target of ending female genital mutilation, FGM, - the total or partial removal of the external female genitalia - the United Nations… Read more »
February 07, 2023
Nigeria: Elimination of Female Genital Mutilation in 2030 At Risk - UN
The United Nations (UN) has raised the alarm that 4.3 million girls were at risk of female genital mutilation in 2023 worldwide, with Nigeria ranking third on the globe. Read more »
February 02, 2023
Nigeria: Edo Confirms 132 Cases of Lassa Fever, Records Two More Deaths
Edo State has recorded seven more confirmed cases of Lassa fever, raising the total number of confirmed cases in the state to 132. Read more »
January 16, 2023
Nigeria: Nigeria Records 29 Fresh Cases of Covid-19 in One Week
*WHO urges retention of facemasks Read more »
January 13, 2023
Nigeria: '80 Percent of Nigerian Women, Girl Child Are Victims of Genital Cut'
An expert has revealed that no fewer than 80 per cent of Nigerian girls and women are victims of female genital mutilation (FGM) in the country. Read more »
January 05, 2023
Nigeria: 'If the Patient Dies, Kill the Doctor'
Monday's statement by the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) that one of its members, Uyi Iluobe, was murdered by relatives of his patient at a hospital in Oghara, Delta State is a… Read more »
December 29, 2022
Nigeria: Achieving Zero Hunger in Nigeria
To gain the nutritional substances that provide energy for activities, growth and other functions of the body, food is essential for a human being. The United Nations global facts… Read more »
December 28, 2022
Nigeria: Mass Exodus of Workers Hit Niger State Health Sector
A mass exodus of personnel has been reported in the Niger State health sector. Read more »
December 22, 2022
Nigeria: For LUTH, Its Six Decades of Healthcare Delivery, Viable Partnerships
Rebecca Ejifoma reports that amongst other monumental feats in providing Lagosians and Nigerians excellent and quality healthcare services, to commemorate its six decades of… Read more »
December 18, 2022
Nigeria: New Edo Teaching Hospital Kicks Off With Free Medical Outreach
The Edo State University Teaching Hospital has finally kicked off a three-day free medical outreach as part of activities lined up to mark the formal takeover and upgrade of the… Read more »
December 14, 2022
West Africa: World Bank Approves $18m Fund to Support Disease Surveillance in West Africa
The World Bank Group has approved a total of $18 million in two additional financings from the International Development Association (IDA) to support effective disease surveillance… Read more »
December 13, 2022
Nigeria: Govt Abolishes Facemask At Airports, Relaxes Covid-19 Rules
The federal government has abolished the wearing of facemask by air travellers, aircraft crew and also cancelled COVID-19 PCR test irrespective of vaccination status. Read more »
December 09, 2022
Nigeria: Aesthetic Medicine - Connecting Nigerian Physicians to Latest Technologies for Optimum Results
These days, aesthetic beauty treatments are extremely diversified with a rise in requests for non-invasive treatments but with the same results as surgery. Read more »
Nigeria: Poor Health Services Exerting Heavy Burden On Nigeria's Economy, Says WHO
Ahead of the International Universal Health Coverage Day celebration coming up on December 12, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said that the persisting poor health indices… Read more »