Health Specials

Pensioners in Nigeria State have adopted radical measures to get the government to pay their pensions and gratuities.

From grappling with the country’s weak health system to losing large numbers of health personnel to developed countries, 2022 will...

About 26 years after, the memory of the Pfizer disaster in Kano looms over the COVID-19 vaccine as some residents...

Vaccinators say although the majority of those coming for vaccination had no plans of going to hajj in 2022, they...

"I intentionally didn't go for COVID-19 test because I felt I didn't have it. Although I’ve heard it kills people...

WHO stated that 500 million people risked developing NCDs between 2020 and 2030 if governments worldwide don’t take urgent action...

BHCPF is meeting the government’s target of strengthening primary healthcare facilities for effective service delivery, but the efforts still look...

The disease control centre noted that seven deaths have been recorded in seven states in 2022.

Our reporting revealed that PHC facilities in the country cannot provide essential healthcare services.

“At least one child globally was infected with HIV every two minutes in 2020.”

Poor funding of the health sector leaves negative impacts on Nigeria’s rising population, with the country accounting for 20 per...

At least 17 million Nigerian children are undernourished; stunted and/or wasted, giving Nigeria the highest burden of malnutrition in Africa...

Despite TB being a vaccine-preventable disease, one-quarter of the World’s population, approximately 1.9 billion people, is infected with TB

“The policy has an overall goal of improving the life and standards of living for all Nigerians through population control”

Located in the South-west state of Ekiti are two health facilities built with millions of naira of public funds but...

The organisers said the event is aimed at finding solutions to challenges of vaccine production and supply chain situation in...

Senior officials, including those in charge of the facility in Katsina, have attempted a coverup to avoid accountability, sources told...

Health security aims to prevent, detect, and respond to infectious disease threats. In practice, this is limited to specific activities,...

The official noted that over one million children under the age of five also die as a result of losing...

NCDC said a total of 248,864 persons have now been discharged nationwide since the outbreak of the virus in Nigeria...

WHO said the increasing fatality figure was mostly driven by the omicron variant.

With no backlog of discharged cases, the disease centre noted that a total of 230,549 have been successfully treated and...

The disease centre stated that the country’s death toll still stands at 3,142, as no fatality was recorded on Monday.