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Rivers Approves N126m for Family Planning Commodities The Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, on Sunday, approved the release of N126m for the procurement and distribution of essential family...

Nigeria, Others to Benefit from WHO's $135m Mpox Fund Nigeria and several other countries that have been recently hit by the Mpox outbreak, stand to benefit from a...

Mpox: C'River Gov't Confirms Case In Obudu LGA One case of mpox has been confirmed by the Cross River government in Obudu LGA's Okoshe community. The confirmation came a...

AKTH Receives First-Ever Geriatrics Hospital Ward In North The first ever customised and dedicated geriatrics ward in any tertiary healthcare institution in the 19 northern states was commissioned...

Berger Residents Held Accountable for Open Defecation: 20 Arrests Made The Lagos State sanitation operatives have arrested 20 individuals caught engaging in open defecation at Berger. The state government...

Anambra Doctors Suspend Strike, Urge Governor to Declare Security Emergency In a welcome turn of events, the Anambra branch of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has called off...

Mpox: 10,000 Vaccine Doses may Arrive September – NCDC As Nigeria records no fewer than 40 cases of mpox, Director-General, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC),...

Security Agency Rescues Kidnapped Medical Students Security sources say 20 medical students who were kidnapped in Benue State have just been rescued. The operation was coordinated by the office...

Tuberculosis: US Donates Lab to Nigeria to Boost Diagnosis The United States Ambassador to Nigeria, Ambassador Richard Mills, has hailed the inauguration of a new tuberculosis modular laboratory...

Nigerian Pharmaceutical Company Secures WHO Approval for Malaria Drug in Pregnancy Swiss Pharma Nigeria Limited (Swipha) has secured the World Health Organisation (WHO) approval to develop an anti-malarial...