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Vultures Extinction Threatens Health, Environment - NCF There has been concern expressed about the extinction of vultures in Nigeria, which tends to pose a lot of danger to...

Measles: Nigeria Records 12,341 Infections In 12 Months   The latest report from the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) showed that Nigeria had...

FCT: 289,957 Malaria Cases Recorded In 2021 In 2021, the Federal Capital Territory recorded 289,000 malaria cases. Dr. Abubakar Tafida, the Mandate Secretary of the Health and Human...

Children: FG To Stamp Out Stunting By 2030 As the government redoubles its efforts on concrete interventions to achieve Universal Health Coverage in Nigeria, one of its responsibilities...

WHO: Nigeria, Others Lag Behind In Administering COVID-19 Vaccines   According to the World Health Organization (WHO), Nigeria and other African countries have performed poorly in the administration of...

WHO: Testing cuts leave world ‘increasingly blind’ to COVID-19 spread HEALTHDIGEST- A dramatic drop in testing for Covid-19 has left the world blind to the virus’s continuing rampage...

World Bank Loans Nigeria $200M For Malaria Intervention On Tuesday, the National Malaria Elimination Programme said that the World Bank was providing them $200 million loan to fund...

Researchers to recruit 120 ex-footballers for dementia study HEALTHDIGEST- Researchers are seeking to recruit 120 former professional footballers to help with a new study to investigate how to...

WHO: Nigeria To Receive 9 Million Doses Of Oral Cholera Vaccines   Walter Mulombo, the World Health Organisation (WHO) country representative, says that Nigeria is expected to receive approximately...

ExxonMobil: $37.4m Spent On Anti Malaria Programmes In Nigeria In The Past 20 Years   ExxonMobil, an American oil and gas giant, has said that it has invested more...