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Nigeria’s Snakebite Crisis: Time for Urgent Government Action Rural healthcare centre lacking antivenom in Nigeria

Mirian Gom February 8, 2026

Nigeria cannot continue to lose lives to preventable snakebites. Every year, nearly 43,000 Nigerians are bitten by...

Ending a Silent Scourge: Inside the Global Race to Eliminate Cervical Cancer Cervical cancer is almost entirely preventable, yet it kills thousands annually in Africa. An in-depth analysis on global progress, Nigeria’s burden, and the path to elimination.

Otamere Gladness January 25, 2026

ABUJA, Nigeria – Cervical cancer should no longer exist as a death sentence. The science to prevent...

How Fake Medicines Are Quietly Killing Nigeria’s Poor A Nigerian pharmacist examining medicine packs behind a pharmacy counter

Chukwu Obinna January 20, 2026

ABUJA, Nigeria – On a sweltering afternoon last month, a visibly distressed mother stepped into Ibe’s Pharmacy,...

Hussaini Ibrahim December 29, 2025

ABUJA, Nigeria – Nigeria’s resident doctors warn they may shut down medical services nationwide as the Federal...

Nigeria Seeks Emergency Cholera Vaccines as Death Toll Rises Nationwide WHO report confirms more than 6,000 global cholera deaths in 2024

Mirian Gom November 30, 2025

ABUJA, Nigeria – The Federal Government has submitted four emergency requests to the International Coordinating Group (ICG)...

Otamere Gladness November 18, 2025

EDO, Nigeria – At exactly 6:45 a.m., the emergency ward at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital...

Abuja Doctors’ Strike Deepens as Wike Ignores Negotiations Calls Abuja doctors protest indefinite strike over unpaid salaries and staff shortage

Mirian Gom September 18, 2025

ABUJA, Nigeria – The strike by resident doctors in Abuja has entered its 11th day, with no...

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