Idowu Abdullahi The World Health Organisation has said viral hepatitis remains one of the world’s deadliest infectious diseases, claiming an estimated 1.3 million lives in 2024...
Johnson Idowu The Director General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, Prof Mojisola Adeyeye, says the agency uncovered the continued illegal...
Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has called for accelerated efforts to eliminate hepatitis B as a public health threat by 2030. The...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has identified integration, innovation and community leadership as critical to ending HIV, viral hepatitis and Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) by 2030,...
An NGO, Connected Development (CODE), has mobilised government agencies, community-based groups and civil society organisations to address vaccine rejection and reduce the number of zero-dose children...
Dr Nicholas Ba’amlong, Plateau’s Commissioner for Health, says the state has a hepatitis B prevalence of 13.9 per cent and a hepatitis C prevalence of 6.8...
By Folasade Akpan Sen. Victor Umeh, Chairman of the Senate Committee on National Identity and Population, says the National Assembly will initiate legislation to guarantee the...
By Stella Kabruk The Kaduna State Ministry of Health has commenced a two-day Joint Annual Review (JAR) of the health sector to assess progress made in...
The Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN) on Tuesday inducted 250 foreign-trained medical and dental graduates who passed its June 2026 Assessment Examination, authorising them...
By Chidinma Ewunonu-Aluko The Commissioner for Health, Edo, Dr Cyril Adams-Oshiomole, has urged journalists to report solutions in addition to problems, saying ending stories with...