KANO, Nigeria – The Kaduna State Primary Healthcare Board has unveiled plans to launch a Mpox (monkeypox) vaccination campaign in selected Local Government Areas affected by the outbreak. Health Educator at the Board, Isah Yusha’u, announced this during a stakeholders’ engagement meeting on Wednesday in Kaduna. “The vaccination exercise is scheduled to begin tentatively on…
Dennis Gabriel Abuja, Nigeria — The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) introduces rigorous new measures to screen exceptional candidates under 16 seeking university admission in the 2025/2026 academic year. At a virtual meeting with vice-chancellors on Wednesday, JAMB Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, declared an end to the “academic abuse” of psychologically unprepared minors being…
ABUJA, Nigeria – The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has pledged £2 billion by 2030 to tackle some of the most underfunded and under-researched conditions affecting women globally—a move expected to revolutionise access to lifesaving care for millions of girls and women in low-income countries. Announced on Tuesday, the historic investment will target diseases and…
Abuja, Nigeria – The Federal Government has secured a $25.35 million concessionary loan from the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development to support over 100,000 out-of-school children in Kaduna State, northern Nigeria. In a statement issued on Tuesday by the Director of Information and Public Relations at the Federal Ministry of Finance, Mohammed Manga, the…
LAGOS, Nigeria – The Association of Resident Doctors (ARD) at the Federal Medical Centre, Abeokuta, has raised concern over the alarmingly low awareness of hepatitis in Nigeria, describing the infection as a “silent killer” affecting millions. Speaking during a medical outreach on Tuesday at Odo-Eran Market, Obantoko, to mark World Hepatitis Day, ARD President Dr….
Chukwu Obinna The World Health Organisation (WHO) has released a landmark framework to accelerate the development of faster, affordable diagnostic tools for neonatal sepsis, a major yet often undetected cause of infant deaths globally. In a statement published on WHO’s website on Wednesday, the new Target Product Profile (TPP) aims to guide the creation…
Dennis Gabriel Abuja, Nigeria – The Edo State Government has shut down five revenue-collecting entities—including four major transport unions and a private firm—over widespread extortion rackets allegedly siphoning millions of naira from motorists under illegal levies. In a statement issued Wednesday, Secretary to the State Government, Osarodion Umar Ikhilor, announced the immediate ban of the…
…Local Drug Development is Cheaper, More Impactful …SPARK Empowers Communities with Practical Tools Professor Daria Mochly-Rosen, a Stanford University expert in chemical and systems biology, has spent nearly two decades leading SPARK Global—a program that empowers local scientists to find and implement homegrown solutions in public health. Now adopted in over 12 African countries, SPARK…
ABUJA, Nigeria – The Federal Government of Nigeria has reaffirmed its commitment to the African Union’s (AU) ambitious target of deploying two million Community Health Workers (CHWs) across the continent by 2030. Speaking at the opening of the Africa CDC-led continental consultation in Abuja today, Nigeria’s Minister of State for Health, Dr Iziaq Salako,…
Chukwu Obinna ABUJA, Nigeria – Nigeria risks losing hard-won progress in its HIV response unless immediate and sustained domestic investments are made, the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA) warns. In a statement posted Tuesday on its official X handle, NACA states that over-reliance on international donors is no longer sustainable. “Sustainability…
