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Addressing Corruption in Nigeria’s Health Sector By Chinedu Moghalu Early this month, the Nigerian Bureau of Statistics (NBS) and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)...

Group Calls on National Assembly to Enact Sickle Cell Bill   A sickle cell advocacy group, the Coalition of Sickle Cell NGOs, has urged the National Assembly to...

Overcoming Nigeria’s Malnutrition Crisis: A Coordinated Approach By Barrister Chinedu Moghalu Nigeria is currently facing a significant malnutrition crisis that affects millions of children across the country. According...

Why Nigeria is yet to Commence Vaccine Production – Pate The Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Muhammad Pate, has explained some of the reasons for the...

Annual 443,832 Under-five Deaths from Diarrhoea Preventable – Experts Deaths from diarrhoea, physicians say have been on the increase and insist that nobody, especially children should not succumb...

Kano Healthcare Budget Tanks: 2024 Allocations Plummet Below Abuja Declaration Benchmark When 13yrs old Rafe’a (not real name) was wheeled into the operations theater of the Murtala Muhammad...

Skilled Birth Attendance: FG Equips 1,400 Primary Health Care Centres The Ministry of Health has equiped 1,400 Primary Healthcare Centres to provide Skilled Birth attendance and reduce infant...

FG Directs Hospitals to Use Only Locally Manufactured Syringes, Needles A new directive from the Federal Government has directed all Chief Medical Directors (CMDs) and Medical Directors (MDs)...

World Malaria Day: Walking Under Sun Does Not Cause Malaria – Researcher A researcher on malaria pathogenesis and molecular resistance at the University of Ibadan, Prof Olusegun Ademowo,...

Strange Disease Hits Sokoto as NCDC Begins Investigation The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has confirmed the outbreak of a disease of unknown origin in...