Health

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has alerted the public to the recall of Mivacron...

  The Edo government says it is set to launch a statewide measles and rubella vaccination campaign targeting 2.2 million...

The Chairman of Igbo-Etiti Local Government Area of Enugu State, Dr Eric Odo, has pledged to ensure every child in...

Patients across the Federal Capital Territory are expressing concerns over skeletal services in general hospitals, citing closed pharmacies, absent laboratory...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has said 1,119 confirmed cases of Lassa fever were recorded in...

The coordinating minister of health and social welfare, Muhammad Pate, says that the federal government has administered over 25 million...

  The UN has said cervical cancer is both preventable and curable with proper access to screening, vaccination and treatment....

The wife of Zamfara State governor, Huriyya Lawal, has cleared the medical bills of patients receiving treatment at the Yariman...

The Bauchi government says it immunised 3.7 million children during the 2025 Measles/Rubella (MR) vaccination exercise in the state. Ibrahim...

  Plateau State Commissioner for Health, Dr Nicholas Baamlong, has said the state recorded two confirmed cases of Lassa fever,...

Nigeria recorded a modest improvement in health financial risk protection in 2024, as out-of-pocket (OOP) spending fell to 58.3 per...

The National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has placed a ban on the Indomie brand Noodles...

The federal government has approved the disbursement of over ₦32 billion to the 36 states of the federation and the...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) says Lassa fever claimed 195 lives across 21 states by Epidemiological...

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the Bauchi State government have flagged off a seven-day immunisation exercise to vaccinate...

  The Federal Government says Nigeria’s health sector has experienced stability in the last two and a half years, with...

The National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has alerted healthcare providers and the general public of...

  The Ondo State Primary Healthcare Development Agency says it is targeting 2.2 million children in the 18 local government...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention has reported 17 new confirmed Lassa fever cases and one death across...

  Kano State government has proposed more than N40 billion for the health sector in the 2026 fiscal year, the...

  The Zamfara Primary Health Care Board, in collaboration with development partners, has mobilised 1,997 vaccination teams for the November...

The Zamfara government says it has successfully tackled the recent cholera outbreak that affected numerous communities across the state’s 14...

  The World Health Organisation has issued its first guideline on the use of a new class of weight-loss medicines,...

  Africa is confronting multiple high-burden health emergencies, including widespread cholera outbreaks, rising mpox cases and active viral haemorrhagic fever...

  A new report by the World Health Organisation (WHO) has shown major progress in the global fight against measles,...

  By Abasi Ita Public health experts and major stakeholders have expressed deep concern over the rising cases of Tuberculosis...

  The World Health Organisation says tuberculosis cases are on a downward trajectory for the first time since the COVID-19...

  The Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Muhammad Pate, says Nigeria continues to record about 850,000 preventable newborn...

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control announced in Abuja on Tuesday that enforcement of the total...

  The Federal Medical Centre (FMC) Keffi in Nasarawa State, Nigeria, has successfully performed at least 18 open-heart surgeries on...

  The National Malaria Elimination Programme (NMEP) distributed over 320 million insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) and 450 million blisters of Sulfadoxine-Pyrimethamine...

As the strike by members of the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) enters its fifth day, the federal government...

  Commissioner for Health in Yola, Adamawa State, Felix Tangwami, has said a cholera outbreak in Mubi Local Government Area...

The Kaduna government, in collaboration with the United Nations Children’s Fund, has intensified efforts to improve access to education and...

  The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has issued a recall notice for two batches...

  The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Sokoto field office, has expressed concern over the refusal of about 3,000 households...

The Katsina State government, in collaboration with UNICEF, has renewed its commitment to the fight against preventable child diseases by...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention says 172 deaths have been recorded from Lassa fever in 21 states....

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has called for stronger integration of eye care into health systems, increased investment, and targeted...

Nigeria is rolling out one of the largest integrated vaccination campaigns in its history, aiming to protect around 106 million...