ABUJA, Nigeria – The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) Nigeria has admitted to a grave grading error in the 2025 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE), following a discovery that incorrect serialised answer keys distorted students’ performance data. At a press briefing held in Lagos on Friday, the Head of WAEC Nigeria, Dr. Amos…
ABUJA, Nigeria — The World Health Organisation (WHO) has officially named Canada, Japan, and the United Kingdom as WHO-Listed Authorities (WLAs), placing their regulatory agencies among the world’s most trusted in overseeing safe, effective, and quality-assured medical products. This designation recognises Health Canada, Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare/PMDA, and the UK’s Medicines and…
ABUJA, Nigeria – Up to 216 million people could be displaced within their countries by 2050 due to climate-related impacts, according to a new World Health Organisation (WHO) report urging countries to build migrant-inclusive, climate-resilient health systems. The WHO’s Global Evidence Review on Health and Migration (GEHM), launched at the Global Conference on Climate and…
ABUJA, Nigeria – Nigeria has increased its licensed medical and dental workforce to 66,241 in 2024, up from 64,949 in 2022 — a net addition of 1,292 professionals — as part of sweeping reforms to strengthen the health sector. Speaking on Thursday at the 2025 BusinessDay Health Conference in Abuja, Dr Iziaq Salako, Minister of…
ABUJA, Nigeria – The Federal Government is intensifying efforts to guarantee free and safe maternal health services nationwide, declaring that every Nigerian woman has the right to safe delivery, regardless of economic status. Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Professor Muhammad Pate, made this assertion in Abuja on Thursday during the commissioning of new…
ABUJA, Nigeria – The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has halted access to the recently released 2025 WASSCE results after detecting technical bugs affecting the accuracy of candidates’ scores. In a statement issued on Thursday, WAEC’s Acting Head of Public Affairs, Moyosola Adesina, announced that a comprehensive review of the results is currently underway to…
ABUJA, Nigeria – The Association of Professional Counsellors in Nigeria (APROCON) has called on federal, state, and local governments to establish well-equipped counselling centres in schools to address rising social and psychological challenges across the country. Speaking at the opening of APROCON’s 9th Annual International Conference on Wednesday, the association’s president, Osorochi Obi, emphasised the…
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…
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,…
LAGOS, Nigeria – The Nigerian Institute of Medical Research (NIMR) has confirmed that all HIV-positive pregnant women under its care delivered babies free of the virus. The announcement came on Tuesday during the opening of the 7th National Council on AIDS (NCA) in Lagos. Speaking at the event, the Director-General of NIMR, Professor…
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