The World Health Organisation (WHO) is set to spend $9m to accelerate COVID vaccination in 15 Nigerian states. The amount which is a grant from the Canadian Government to the Nigerian Federal Government will be deployed to the 15 lowest performing states in…
By David Awoyemi The National Agency for Drug and Food Administration and Control, (NAFDAC) has made a warning to drug hawkers while threatening imprisonment. The Director General of NAFDAC Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye who was represented by the Director of Chemical Evaluation…
Dr Nusirat Elelu, the Executive Secretary of Kwara Primary Health Care Development Agency, says the state will commence the Second Round Oral Polio Immunisation on July 22 to 25. Elelu stated this during her presentation at the 2023 Stakeholders meeting…
The Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM) says the development of any country is a collaboration of the citizens living and working in such country and those in the Diaspora. This is contained in a statement by Mr Gabriel Odu, Media,…
In its quest to finding lasting solutions to the problem of Nigeria non-oil export rejects abroad, the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has once again extended hands of collaboration to critical stakeholders in the nation’s…
Former Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, has urged government and other stakeholders to set up framework to encourage early diagnosis and access to affordable treatment and management of cancer. He made the call at the official unveiling of the…
National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) says 189,310 children in the South-West geopolitical zone lack access to or were never reached by any routine immunisation from January to June 2023. The Executive Director of the agency, Dr Faisal Shuaib,…
Nigeria should be moving towards epidemic control of HIV/AIDS, the Federal Government said recently. Also, National Coordinator, National HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis and STI Control Programme, Ministry of Health, Adebobola Bashorun, stressed the importance of self-tests and the need for all…
The Federal Government, through the Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Enugu, has concluded plans to make treatment and education on mental health more accessible to rural residents in the South-East. The Medical Director of the hospital, Prof. Monday Igwe, disclosed this on…
Lagos State University Teaching Hospital recorded a new first as it became the first public tertiary health institution in Nigeria to perform Ventricular Septal Defect closure. VSD is a type of heart procedure that closes a hole between the left…
