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Ranked by WHO among the 37 countries with critical health workforce shortages, Nigeria is battling an exodus of trained professionals...

Compared to Clade I and II, the new variant, Clade Ib, is considered to be deadlier and contagious, spreading rapidly...

This practice has compromised the trust in Nigeria's healthcare system, prompting those who can afford it to seek treatment abroad.

In 2020, the Kwara State Government renovated four primary healthcare centres (PHCs) in different communities at a total cost of...

An average of two to three doctors reportedly resign from Lagos State’s primary and secondary facilities every month without commensurate...

“Recently, guidelines for the NHIA Act was launched ... which also provides funding for vulnerable Nigerians, including cancer patients.’’

The 12 PHCs PREMIUM TIMES visited are yearning for equipment and personnel to cope with the swarming patients.

Nigeria, where malaria is responsible for 11 per cent of maternal deaths, 25 per cent of deaths among infants, and...

In South Africa, Nestlé promotes its wheat cereal Cerelac as a source of 12 essential vitamins and minerals.

"Assisted reproductive techniques are good but exploiting the donors is what we frown at," the Nigerian lawmaker says.

The tribunal heard that the pair had consensual sexual intercourse in the hospital toilet cubicle and at her home.

About 13 years after Lagos State put in place an anti-discrimination law, and five years after the federal government did...

Impoverished young men are selling their kidneys in return for cash to start their businesses.

Nigeria has insufficient facilities to treat cancer patients at a time when more citizens testing positive for cancer.

If there is anything that has proven to be an important backbone of democracy, it is the freedom of information.

At GTB, he allied with long-time friend and business partner Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede, also an executive director at the bank at...

According to the Global Cancer Observatory (Globocan), cancer causes an estimated 78,000 deaths in Nigeria annually.

A medical doctor with expertise in sexual & reproductive health, Damian Avar, also known as Sabi Doctor, speaks on the...

Cross-border kidnappings have been reported in several parts of Ethiopia.

“Every month that I have my period, it is extremely painful. It is so painful that I have to be...

Anti-malaria drugs are among the most common counterfeit drugs worldwide. Several promising interventions aim to combat the illegal trade.

Morocco could outperform its low-middle-income African peers – but only if…

Regrettably, many healthcare workers are inadequately compensated or not compensated at all within the majority of our member states

Ghali Na’Abba, the second House of Representatives speaker in the current democratic dispensation, died on Wednesday.