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Hadiza, 21, thought she had ‘toilet infection’ after experiencing itching and coloured vaginal discharge for weeks. She continued to buy drugs and creams but didn’t feel...
What is chronic kidney disease? Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) is a condition where kidney damage occurs gradually over a long period and can lead to permanent...
Fr Ejike Mbaka., the Spiritual Director of Adoration Ministries, Enugu, has reacted to the arrest of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi...
More than two million Nigerians have received the first dose of the Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, The National Primary Healthcare Development Agency declared in Abuja on Thursday....
Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire has disclosed that Nigeria currently has the highest burden of sickle cell disease in the world ahead of Democratic Republic of...
Representative of the World Health Organisation in Nigeria (WHO) Walter Kazadi has said that the threat of a third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic was real...
The Executive Director/CEO of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), Dr Faisal Shuaib, has said at least 680,345 have received the second doses of COVID-19 vaccines, while 1,978,808...
The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Akin Abayomi, says 107,283 persons have received the second dose of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine in the state as at June...
The Association of Civil Society in Malaria Control, Immunization and Nutrition (ACOMIN) has attributed the major issues affecting the fight against reducing the prevalence of malaria...
Stakeholders in the Nigerian health sector have been urged to forge a united action against Malaria with a view to eliminating the disease from the country....
The Federal Government has approved a 600 per cent increment in hazard allowance for senior health workers and 350 per cent for their junior counterparts. Minister...
The World Health Organization has come out to remind everyone that the world is not yet out of the Coronavirus pandemic yet, despite declining coronavirus infection...
The Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire, yesterday said a research finding published in 2021 by the Centre for the Study of the Economies of Africa showed...
The World Health Organization’s (WHO) Goodwill Ambassador for Leprosy Elimination, Japanese Government Goodwill Ambassador for the Human Rights of Persons Affected by Leprosy and Chairman Nippon...
The Federal Government has begun to administer the second dose of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine to eligible persons in the country. A total of 4,683 people...
Federal Government has warned practitioners of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) to desist or risk N500, 000 fine or four years imprisonment. The Oyo State Director, National...
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has suspended the ongoing five days warning strike of Kaduna State. Labour, in a statement by Comrade Segun Esan, the Secretary...
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) on Tuesday gave Janssen (Johnson and Johnson) COVID-19 vaccine the nod for conditional emergency use...
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Labour Organization (ILO) say long working hours are increasing deaths from heart disease and stroke. According to the...
Ekiti State Government on Sunday said it intends to produce of over one million metrics tonnes of rice within the next couple of years. Mr Olabode...
The World Health Organization issued a grim warning on Friday that the second year of Covid-19 was set to be “far more deadly”, as Japan extended...
Nigeria on Thursday recorded 53 new cases of the COVID-19 virus, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 165,612. The Nigeria Centre for Disease...
Two million doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine have been reserved for the second dose in the first phase of vaccination, the Federal Government stated on...
Nigerian medical doctors have again insisted that they do not need to have a doctorate to head teaching hospitals in the country. The doctors reaffirmed that...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) reported one more death in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of deaths from the disease in...
The India COVID-19 variant has been detected in Nigeria, leading to a call for concern. The PUNCH had earlier reported that the COVID-19 was detected by...
The COVID-19 strain, which is currently ravaging India, has been found in Nigeria, The PUNCH has learnt. The strain was detected by the African Centre of Excellence for...
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Monday authorized the use of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for children aged 12 to 15 years old. “This...
The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, has said that local production of COVID-19 vaccines cannot start now in Nigeria. Ehanire made this known in Abuja,...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has announced 49 more cases of COVID-19 in Lagos, Enugu, Oyo and the Federal Capital Territory Abuja. The development brings...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced 37 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 165,419. The...
The Bauchi State Government, on Saturday, identified two local government areas of the state, Bauchi and Toro, as the epicentres of Avian Influenza, also known as...
Soursop juice has been used for centuries as a form of pain reliever while pulverized seeds and concoctions made of leaves are also popular forms of...
The Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC), recorded 39 new COVID-19 infections and zero death in the past 24 hours in the country. It said the...
The federal government is committed to procuring 29.588 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine through the AVAT initiative, coordinated by Afreximbank, the Minister of...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) says it registered 34 new cases of COVID-19 in three states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory...
An Islamic cleric, Sheik Ahmad Gumi, on Tuesday urged the government not to take the threat by the kidnappers of students of Greenfield University, Kaduna lightly....
Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has recorded 18 new coronavirus infections, with zero COVID-19 related death in four states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT)...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has discharged additional 252 people after testing negative to the COVID-19 virus following treatment in the country. The NCDC...
The Association of Resident Doctors (ARD), University College Hospital (UCH) Ibadan, has embarked on an indefinite strike over unpaid salary. Dr Temitope Hussein revealed this to...
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) said it has approved the use of the Pfizer-BioTech COVID-19 vaccine for use in Nigeria....
President Muhammadu Buhari has commended the resilience of Nigerian medical doctors despite the country’s fragile healthcare system, noting that the doctors have continued to rise up...
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control has approved Pfizer-BionTech COVID-19 vaccines for emergency use in Nigeria. The approval was announced on Friday...
British pharmaceuticals giant AstraZeneca reported on Friday $275 million (227 million euros) in sales from its Covid vaccine in the first three months of the year....
The wife of Governor Willie Obiano of Anambra, Ebelechukwu Obiano, has called for mandatory genotype tests for all intending couples. Mrs Obiano, who is also the...
A total of 1,175,285 eligible Nigerians have so far received the first dose of the COVID19 vaccine. From the statistics released yesterday by the National Primary...
The European Union said Monday it has launched legal action against pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca over coronavirus vaccine delivery shortfalls that hampered efforts to kickstart inoculations across...
