The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), has vowed it will prioritise health security amid competing priorities on the national agenda. The Director-General, NCDC, Dr Ifedayo Adetifa, made the vow on Monday in Abuja at the bi-weekly Ministerial Press briefing…
A public health expert, Dr Ifeoma Uduji, has urged Nigerians to use lessons learnt from COVID-19 to prevent and curb recurring and emerging diseases in the country. Uduji, who is a specialist in Public Health Services and Policy, made the…
The Ogun Alternate Medicine Board, on Thursday, said it has commenced the screening and orientation of no fewer than 600 liquor and herbage vendors across the state. This, it said, is to checkmate the activities of the vendors and ensure…
The World Health Organisation (WHO) and the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) have called for the need to improve hygienic practices in food and agriculture sectors of the country. Head of Mission and Representative of WHO, Nigeria, Dr Walter Mulombo,…
The Federal Neuro-psychiatric Hospital Yaba, Lagos, has partnered with the University of Maryland Psychiatric Research Centre (MPRC) US, to research on the safety of ‘clozapine’ therapy among black people. The Medical Director of the hospital, Dr Olugbenga Owoeye, made this…
Chief Medical Director, Chukwu emeka Odimegwu Ojukwu Teaching Hospital, Amaku, Awka, Dr Joe Akabuike, on Thursday said the health facility spends N12.1 million monthly on power supply. Akabuike made the disclosure in Awka when he received the state’s Commissioner for…
The Medical Women Association of Nigeria (MWAN), Kwara Chapter, on Thursday distributed sanitary pads to school girls of Agbabiaka Secondary School in Ilorin. The branch President of MWAN, Dr Bilqis Alatishe, who addressed the school girls, underscored the need for good…
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC has apprehended a 32-year-old businessman, Obinna Igbo, for alleged importation and sale of fake Amanta Forte, an unregistered anti-malarial drug. Mr. Igbo has however, been arraigned before a Federal…
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) says that between 1st January to 29th May, 2022, the country has reported 66 suspected cases of monkeypox. Of the suspected cases, according to the centre, 21 were confirmed in nine States, saying…
A non-govern mental organisation, Loving Heart of Faith Foundation, in commemoration of World Menstrual hygiene day, sensitised female students in Osogbo, Osun State on menstruation and puberty changes. The menstrual hygiene day celebrated every May 28 worldwide was characterised by…
