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March 22 every year is set aside as World Water Day. The theme for 2020 is “Water and Climate Change.”

After years of abandonment, the government this week began the process of clearing the refuse dump at the property.

The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Community and Social Development Project (CSDP), a World Bank finance assisted project, has executed about 200 projects in poor Abuja communities.

Pneumonia is a leading childhood killer disease in Nigeria. In 2018 alone, 162,000 children died from pneumonia, making Nigeria the country with the highest number of pneumonia-related deaths in the world.

The Senate is holding a public hearing on a new bill to protect persons with mental health and substance abuse problems.

There have been initiatives in Nigeria to develop local technology. But in my experience, these initiatives fail to get traction.

The study found that supplements containing zinc and folic acid previously used to treat infertility in men make no difference.

No access to healthcare means that women in this camp act as each other’s midwives.

Prostate cancer is a leading cause of death among, especially black men.

Early detection is often the difference between cure in the early stage of prostate cancer and costly management or even death in the late stages.

The Nigerian Dental Association advises parents on how to clean the mouths of newborns.

The concept of the WHO declaring global public health emergencies first arose after the 2003 Sars coronavirus outbreak.

According to the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) data, oral diseases are the most common non-communicable diseases worldwide. 

Dentine sensitivity is a common dental problem that causes discomfort or shocking pain in the tooth when it encounters certain substances and temperature.

There were gains and misses as advances and setbacks were recorded in the global fight against diseases

The erroneous belief that Africans do not suffer from autoimmune diseases has caused late diagnosis of the diseases in Nigeria

Since the beginning of 2019, 166 persons have died from Lassa fever in Nigeria.

Huge gaps in testing and prevention of mother-to-child transmission make the goal of ending the epidemic by 2030 in Nigeria unattainable.

It is estimated that only half of the antibiotics consumed in Nigeria are correctly used. This poses an imminent threat to disease treatment in the nearest future.

Some of Nigeria’s health indices provide context to how dire the situation is in the country.

Mrs Adadevoh has received several local and international awards posthumously.

“In many cases, acute renal failure can be reversed if the cause is found and addressed… Information is power; information is health; information is a life-saved!”