Health
Fatalities rise six years after NCDC declared emergency on Lassa fever
On January 22, 2019, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control declared Lassa fever a public health emergency, following a spike in confirmed ...‘Exporting Doctors While Undermining Welfare Is Inexcusable,’ NMA Faults Nigeria-Saint Lucia Deal
The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has faulted the Federal Government’s decision to deploy Nigerian doctors to Saint Lucia and other Caribbean nations ...16 states lack clinical oncologists — NCS
The President and the Chief Executive Office of the Nigerian Cancer Society (NCS), Abidemi Omonisi, said 16 states in Nigeria do not ...NMA demands reversal of Owoeye’s appointment as acting Medical Director of Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital
The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has called for strict adherence to the laid-down process for the tenure and appointment of the acting ...Adekunle Gold offers free healthcare to 1,000 sickle cell warriors [APPLY]
Nigerian singer, Adekunle Gold, has introduced a free health insurance programme to support 1,000 individuals living with sickle cell disease. The initiative, ...‘I want to live’, cancer patient begs Tinubu’s wife, Nigerians for financial help
A business woman, Mrs. Akamagwuna has cried out to Nigerians, especially First Lady Oluremi Tinubu, to help fight her fight breast cancer ...Nigeria’s health budget too small to tackle challenges, says Bill Gates
Bill Gates, chairman of the Gates Foundation, says the amount spent by the Nigerian government on its healthcare sector is “too small” ...We Need To Stop Health Tourism, Start Producing Our Own Drugs — Dangote
The Chairman of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, has expressed the need for Nigerians to stop medical tourism and for the country to ...Tinubu praises Bill Gates, confers CFR national honour on him
President Bola Tinubu, on Tuesday in Lagos, praised Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft and chairman of the Bill Gates Foundation, for inspiring ...Lagos Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital staff rejects ‘illegal extension’ of Medical Director Owoeye’s tenure amid corruption probe
Some workers at the Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital, Yaba, Lagos State, have raised strong objections to the decision by the Federal Ministry of ...
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