The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has reaffirmed its commitment to supporting Niger State in curbing the spread of cholera, which has now affected 16 local government areas across the state. As of Thursday, July 24, 2025, a total of 409 cases had been recorded, with 13 fatalities—most of them children. Chief of UNICEF’s Kaduna…
Nigeria’s Minister of Health, Professor Muhammad Ali Pate, has raised alarm over the country’s soaring cancer burden, revealing that cancers cause around 80,000 deaths each year out of an estimated 127,000 annual cases. Speaking at the commissioning of a new oncology centre at the Federal Teaching Hospital, Katsina, Professor Pate said non-communicable diseases such as…
Korede Abdullah in Lagos The National Association of Patent and Proprietary Medicine Dealers (NAPPMED) has accused an unnamed cartel of hijacking the Lagos Coordinated Wholesale Centre (CWC), originally designed to regulate drug distribution in the state. Chairman of NAPPMED Liberation Zone Idumota, Osita Nwajide, raised the alarm during a rally on Friday, stating, “We paid…
General Overseer of The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye, and his wife, Pastor Folu Adeboye, on Thursday donated a dialysis centre to Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital Complex (OAUTHC) Wesley Guild, Ilesa. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the facility, donated to mark Pastor Folu Adeboye’s 77th birthday, was…
Hussaini Kafi in Kano The Jigawa State Government has made genotype testing compulsory for all intending couples as part of efforts to reduce the prevalence of sickle cell disease and promote public health. The announcement was made on Thursday, July 25, 2025, by Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Hamisu Mohammed Gumel, following a State…
Hussaini Kafi in Kano The Kano State Government will tomorrow, Saturday, July 26, 2025, launch a four-day integrated malaria prevention campaign targeting children under five across all 44 local government areas. The campaign combines Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention (SMC) with the mass distribution of insecticide-treated nets (ITNs), aiming to protect millions of children during the peak…
The United States Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has pledged continued collaboration with Nigerian health agencies to tackle infectious disease outbreaks. In a statement, on Friday, the CDC said: “Whether it’s Lassa fever, cholera, diphtheria, yellow fever, or meningitis, we continue to work with Nigerian public health experts and agencies to help the…
Hussaini Kafi in Kano The Resource Centre for Human Rights and Civic Education (CHRICED) on Thursday trained civil society organizations and media practitioners in Kano to step up advocacy for the full implementation of the Free Maternal and Child Healthcare (FMNCH) Law. The one-day workshop focused on building participants’ capacity for data-driven advocacy, grassroots mobilization,…
Dennis Gabriel in Abuja The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has announced it will be forced to suspend all emergency food and nutrition aid for 1.3 million people in northeast Nigeria at the end of July due to critical funding shortfalls. WFP warned that a critical funding gap is paralysing its operations, adding that…
Korede Abdullah in Lagos Over 30 million children worldwide miss out on completing their full course of life-saving vaccines, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has revealed. “In 2024 alone, 60 countries saw significant measles outbreaks — nearly double the number in 2022,” said WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus during an online briefing on global health….
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