The Federal Government has announced plans to integrate psychosocial and mental health support into humanitarian response for children affected by conflict.

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control says Nigeria’s fight against fake and substandard products has entered a decisive phase, with over N1.54tn worth of goods destroyed nationwide in the last three years.

That simple observation is the premise behind the Grassroots Health Detectives (GHD) 1.0 programme, a five-day community biosecurity and disease surveillance training that has just graduated fifty frontline health workers in Hadejia, Jigawa State, selected from a pool of more than 1,300 applicants nationwide.

The Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN) has begun updating its register of medical and dental practitioners, directing specialists nationwide to formally register their additional qualifications or risk losing official recognition of their specialist status.

The Nigerian Implementation Science Alliance (NISA) has called for an overhaul of health professionals’ training in Nigeria, saying universities, government health programmes and employers must work together to close the gap between academic training and practical experience.