Health
Nigeria first country to roll out new meningitis vaccine – WHO
Nigeria has become the first country in the world to roll out a new meningitis vaccine (called Men5CV) recommended by ...Failed elevator that killed doctor yet to be repaired, Lagos claims it’s working on whole ...
After over eight months since a failed elevator killed Vwaere Diaso, a medical doctor at the General Hospital, Odan, Lagos ...Nigeria-born UK doctor exchanged free botox for sex with patient, says medical tribunal rules
A TV cosmetic doctor gave free botox to a patient in return for sex at his clinic, a medical tribunal ...NCDC begins probe as Sokoto records 164 cases of ‘strange disease’
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) says it is investigating a mysterious illness that emerged in Isa LGA of ...Ondo doctors begin strike over seven-month salary arrears
The Association of Resident Doctors at the University of Medical Sciences Teaching Hospital, Ondo State, has commenced a 14-day warning ...Health professionals seek drug-free society
Prominent health professionals in Nigeria have said tackling of drugs misuse must include multidimensional approach that can lead to creating ...Abuja farmers, others lost N12bn to ginger disease – FG
The Federal Government, on Monday, confirmed the outbreak of ginger blight epidemic in four states in Nigeria, adding that ginger ...Surgeons transplant pig kidney into 62-year-old man in US
A ground-breaking medical procedure took place in Boston, United States of America, Shere surgeons successfully transplanted a kidney from a ...Japa: Nurses sue council, health minister over new certificate verification guideline
Some nurses have sued the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria (NMCN) over the new verification certification guidelines released by ...Successful Nigerian doctors abroad considering returning home – Health Minister
The Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Muhammad Ali Pate, says successful Nigerian doctors, nurses and health workers overseas are ...