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Exclusive breastfeeding and adequate immunisation are ways to ensure healthy well-being of babies.

Even in the few relatively well-equipped centres, health workers lament they cannot do much due to lack of electricity

According to a 2007 study from the FAO, 2.5 billion people globally eat street food every day.

A fast growing population and high rate of child and maternal deaths recommend contraception but Nigerians are reluctant to embrace it despite campaigns

The community members spoke on the transformation going on there,

Girls for Girls initiative (G4G) is a component of the Girls’ Education Project Phase 3 (GEP3) launched by UNICEF in 2017.

Dr. Tedros’ leadership has been very inspiring and we will push to make this a progressive era for health security in Nigeria.

“We have already crossed the Rubicon, so there is no going back,” a union leader said.

The pathologist also speaks on the ongoing JOHESU strike and how to curb quackery in the medical profession.

“We don’t know the long term side effect of eating GMO foods, but there is a lot of ongoing research on that.”

Medical doctors’ threat over JOHESU has reignited concerns about their wide edge above all other skilled workers in the civil service.

The nationwide strike was called by JOHESU, an association comprising all other health workers except doctors, is taking its toll on patients.

High number of deaths from five recent disease outbreaks has exposed Nigeria’s low level of preparedness against epidemics.

Thousands of women in the states in North-west Nigeria surfer from VVF.

About 7 per cent of women and 15 per cent of men do not wash their hands after using the bathroom.

“I have been delivering women of babies for over 25 years”

Malaria is the number one cause of illness in the slums.

The U.S. warns it could conduct airstrikes in Syria.

Nigeria has highest rate of mother to child HIV transmission globally, the official says.

“Nigeria should brace itself to losing more of its doctors,” an emigrant doctor says.

The scientist also speaks on his research into sickle cell, science education in Nigeria‎, and other matters.

“The philosophy of punishing people who take drugs and do no harm to people is no longer working, the perception is just something that has no reality at all.”