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[VIDEO] Nigeria receives Gavi’s 846,000 doses of malaria vaccines
Nigeria has received the first batch of 846,000 doses of the R21 malaria vaccines from Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance. The unveiling of ...Ondo, Edo record highest cases as Lassa fever deaths hit 172
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has reported 172 deaths from Lassa fever in 2024. In a situation report released on ...NAFDAC workers begin nationwide strike over neglect by management
Staff of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, embarked on an indefinite nationwide strike on Monday following the ...Lagos transfers Epe General Hospital to FG for upgrade to Federal Medical Centre
The Lagos State Government has transferred the Epe General Hospital to the Federal Government for conversion and upgrade to a tertiary health ...10 persons die in fresh Ebonyi cholera outbreak
No fewer than 10 persons have been reported dead in fresh outbreak of cholera in Ebonyi State. The deaths weresaid to have ...LUTH admits two patients as it begins bone marrow transplant for sickle cell cure
The Lagos University Teaching Hospital in partnership with Sickle Cell Foundation Nigeria (SCFN), has started a “safe bone marrow transplant programme” that ...Local condom production begins soon – NACA DG
The Director-General, National Agency for the Control of AIDS, Dr Temitope Ilori, has said the country will begin the local production of ...NAFDAC shuts Maiduguri market where traders sundried drugs for resale after devastating flood
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has shut down the Gomboru drug market in Maiduguri, Borno State, ...Maiduguri Flood: UN warns against cholera outbreak, malnutrition in IDP camps
The United Nations has raised the alarm over the possibility of an outbreak of Cholera disease at emergency Internally Displaced Person camps ...Bill Gates to meet with health, nutrition experts during visit to Nigeria
Bill Gates, the co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), is visiting Nigeria as part of the charity organisation’s ongoing ...
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