Months after Kaduna State was recorded as polio free, the dreaded disease has again resurfaced in Birnin Gwari local government area in the state, prompting residents to call on parents to assist government efforts toward eradicating the me...
The Chairman, Sickle Cell Foundation, Nigeria, Prof Olu Akinyanju, has expressed regrets over the lack of capacity building and research in the Nigerian healthcare system. He spoke in Lagos on Saturday at the 14th Closing/Certificate Award Ceremo...
The Minister of Health, Prof Onyebuchi Chukwu, in Abuja on Thursday called on development partners to support Federal Government's programmes on autism. Chukwu, while briefing the press on the World Autism Awareness Day slated for April 2, expresse...
Medical and Health Workers’ Union of Nigeria (MHWUN) has expressed worries over the growing cases of discrimination against its members affected by HIV virus in the cause of their work. Chairman of the Kano Chapter of the union, Comrade Kabiru Ad...
The National Assembly recently passed a legislation prohibiting same-sex marriage in Nigeria. This development gave rise to an uproar among the international community and some gay right activists. John Oba, in this piece sought the opinion of some Nig...
The University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH) is spending the whopping sum of N16M monthly on diesel to power its generator so as to provide stable electricity supply. This is in addition to N2milion being paid to Power Holding Company of Nigeria (...
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has spent the sum of $6.7 million through the Society for Family Health during a two-year project in Gombe wherein 11 local government area were targeted to save 60,000 women and their children &nb...
Nigeria’s progress towards reducing under five mortality is still slow, ranking 12th in the indicator with the ratio 143 to 1,000 live births in 2010, the State of World Children report, has showed. The report, a publicati...
The National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has shut down no fewer than 10 sachet water manufacturing factories in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, and its environs for contravening the laid-down regulations of the ag...
Despite the uproar over the abuse of Benylin cough syrup, the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), may not be in a hurry to pronounce the cough syrup that contains codeine, a prescription drug. This line of action, acc...
The Federal Government has declared a state of emergency on polio eradication while new cases will be treated as emergency. Dr Muhammad Pate, Minister of State for Health, made this known in a statement signed by Mr Tashikalmah Hallah, his Special Advi...
Gombe State has so far recorded two confirmed and nine suspected cases of Cerebro Spinal Meningitis (CSM), Dr Ishaya Kennedy, the State Commissioner for Health, has said. Kennedy said in Gombe on Friday that the two patients were currently receiving tr...
President Goodluck Jonathan hinted yesterday that the federal government had increased the funds earmarked for the eradication of polio from $17 million to $30 million, just as he has expressed concern that Nigeria is a sanctuary of wild polio that is ...
The Federal Medical Centre, Makurdi, Benue State, is to give mass burial to about 37 unclaimed corpses deposited in the hospital. Head mortician of the hospital, Mr. Sylvester Gendaga, who disclosed this to LEADERSHIP, said, that the cumbersome a...
Nigeria has recorded 40 per cent sanitation coverage, up from 32 per cent that had spanned two decades, the Federal Ministry of Water Resources has said. Dr Obioha Agada, the Director of Water Quality and Sanitation in the ministry, disclosed this on T...