Health

Governors elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have asked President Bola Tinubu to “urgently” review his economic policies that are causing hardship for citizens. The governors spoke in a communiqué issued at…

Novak Djokovic has appointed Andy Murray to coach him into and through the 2025 Australian Open. Three-time Grand Slam winner Murray, who retired in August after exiting the men's doubles at the Paris 2024 Olympics, will join the…

An Indian man awoke on a funeral pyre moments before it was to be set on fire after a doctor skipped a postmortem, medical officials said Saturday. Rohitash Kumar, 25, who had speaking and hearing difficulties, had fallen sick and…

Islamic morality police, Hisbah, in the northern Nigerian city of Kano are to resume their crackdown on betting shops after a supreme court ruling on gambling. The Nigerian Supreme Court quashed a 2005 law Friday that established a…

The proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) says Simon Ekpa, the controversial Biafra agitator, was never a member of the group. IPOB said Ekpa was not a registered member of the group’s chapter in Finland and cannot be the…

The Supreme Court, on Friday, nullified the National Lottery Act 2005 enacted by the National Assembly. A seven-member panel of the Supreme Court in a unanimous judgment held that the National Lottery Act 2005 should no longer be…

The Nigerian government has unveiled Galaxy Backbone’s ‘Govmail’, ServiceWise GPT, and the Federal Civil Service Online Portal digital service platforms for civil servants nationwide. The head of Civil Service of the Federation, Didi…

Lack of money has left two-thirds of households in Nigeria grappling with the reality of not being able to provide healthy and nutritional meals, a survey by the National Bureau of Statistics, NBS has revealed. The NBS survey titled,…

The National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has warned Nigerians against five contaminated syrups detected in the Maldives and Pakistan. In a public alert, Mojisola Adeyeye, NAFDAC director-general…

In celebrating World Health Organisation, WHO at 75, different programmes and awareness have been embarked on by the group. And one of them is, the group, WHO cautioned Nigeria and other countries to prepare for the flu pandemic by…

Nigeria accounts for the third-highest number of women and girls who have undergone Female Genital Mutilation, with an estimated 19.9 million survivors, two United Nations agencies have said. The UN agencies — the United Nations…

Due to the alarming state of Lassa fever, the number of confirmed case in Nigeria has increased to 244 in the first three weeks of 2023. The country also recorded 18 new deaths from the viral infection from January 16 to 22; bringing…

Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has said it has responded to reports of diphtheria cases in Lagos and Kano states and is monitoring the situation in Osun and Yobe States where cases are now being picked up.…

Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors has petitioned the Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, on unresolved issues affecting its members. This is just as Ehanire said the Federal Government is working on introducing…

Lions Clubs International, District 404B1, Nigeria, has called on stakeholders in the health sector to create more awareness of childhood cancer. The district governor, 404B1 2022-2023, Kema Ashibuogwu, during a new year party and…