A major step towards enhancing regional public health was taken on Monday, in Nigeria when officials from Nigeria and Niger Republic convened for a critical three-day cross-border meeting aimed at improving disease surveillance and outbreak intervention strategies. Organized by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Regional Centre for Surveillance & Disease Control (RCSDC)…
The Lagos State government has urged the people of the state to be extra vigilant and take precautionary measures as the state records a cholera outbreak resulting in five fatalities. The state Commissioner for Health, Professor Akin Abayomi, issued out the warning in a statement in the early hours of Wednesday that the state had…
The Nigeria’s Primary HealthCare is epileptic. Unlike other climes where priority attention is paid to their health sector, in Nigeria it is a different kettle of fish, as neither the primary nor secondary health care is working optimally, a situation that has endangered majority of its citizens. Worsening the situation for the citizens is the…
Following the directive by the House of Representatives to the Federal Ministry of Health to address the issue of hospitals and healthcare facilities demanding police reports before treating accident or gunshot victims, President Bola Tinubu’s administration has announced plans to take legal action against hospitals that refuse emergency treatment to patients. At the “Unlock Grants…
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has advised that foods that have not been refrigerated properly as a result of power outages should be thrown out. The health organisation gave this warning on Saturday in a series of messages posted on X.com in commemoration of the 2024 World Food Safety Day themed, ‘Food safety: prepare for…
The newly appointed female president of the Pediatrics Association of Nigeria (PAN), Ekanem Ekure has sheded light on the challenges confronting child health in Nigeria. According to World Bank data, Nigeria has an estimate of 40 million children who are living in extreme poverty, six out every 10 children experience some form og violence, 10…
In this Special Report, Korede Abdullah examines how Nigeria arrived at the unpleasant junction or rather, corridors of the deadly Lassa Fever, with 10 confirmed cases in one week NCDC The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) made a revelation in its latest Lassa fever situation report for week 21. According to NCDC,…
The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has targeted free medical surgery in oil regions across Rivers and Bayelsa States. This was confirmed by the NDDC Managing Director, Samuel Ogbuku in a week-long free healthcare programme by the NDDC and Ecclestine Concept Limited. Ogbuku stated that the programme’s mission is to provide health care services to…
The Kano State Government’s decision to provide free meals twice daily to pilgrims in Saudi Arabia for the 2024 Hajj exercise has sparked outrage among critics. The move, seen as excessive and unnecessary, has drawn sharp criticism from various quarters. According to Shuaibu Ibrahim, the Head of Media Team for Kano State pilgrims, in a…
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has reported a number of successful operations in Nigeria, which led to the interception of large drug shipments and the arrest of several suspects. Oladimeji Samson, a 57-year-old man in Oyo State, was caught on a commercial bus at the Ibadan section of the Lagos-Ibadan expressway with 79…
