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Lagos Government Issues Health Alert After Cholera Outbreak Kills Five A cholera outbreak in Lagos State has prompted a health alert from the government, resulting in five fatalities...

Cholera Claims Five Lives in Lagos At least five persons have been killed in an outbreak of Cholera in Lagos State. The state’s commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi,...

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...

NCDC Launches Genomics Sequencing Consortium to Enhance Public Health Infrastructure Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has launched the National Genomics Sequencing Consortium aimed at enhancing...

Nigeria Secures $933m Grant to Strengthen Disease Response The Global Fund‘s Grant Cycle 7 (GC7) has allocated $933 million to Nigeria for addressing HIV, Tuberculosis, and Malaria from...

NCPWD: 600 Benefit From Health Insurance Package According to the National Commission for Persons with Disabilities (NCPWD), no less than 600 PWDs have benefitted from the pilot programme...

FG To Sanction Hospitals Refusing To Treat Emergency Patients The Federal Government of Nigeria has threatened that it will sue hospitals that refuse to treat patients who are...

UNICEF: Food Poverty Affects 11 Million Children In Nigeria According to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), approximately 11 million children, or one in every three children under...

Expert: Alternative Medicine Can Be Used For Immunisation Professor Benjamin Amodu, a researcher of phytomedicine, is urging Nigeria to include alternative and complementary vaccines to reduce the number...

  FG Launches New National Policy on Food Safety and Security The federal government has launched a new national policy on food safety and security The four inter-sectoral Technical...