Saudi medical team conducts 28 cochlear implant surgeries for Kenyan children

Nigeria, April 25 -- A volunteer medical team from the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre (KSrelief) has successfully performed 28 cochlear implant surgeries for children in Kenya as part ... Read More

Nigeria launches national guidelines to reduce maternal deaths

Nigeria, April 17 -- In a move to reduce maternal deaths and improve childbirth outcomes, the Nigerian government has launched six national policy documents aimed at ensuring safer delivery for women ... Read More

ACDJ remembers Rotimi Sankore one year after demise

Nigeria, April 12 -- The Africa Centre for Development Journalism (ACDJ) on Saturday marked the one-year remembrance of its late Executive Director and Editor-in-Chief, Rotimi Sankore. Until his pass... Read More

Global health at risk as 70% of countries struggle with funding cuts - WHO

Nigeria, April 12 -- The World Health Organisation (WHO) has raised concerns over major disruptions in health services across the world, noting that 70 per cent of its country offices have observed ma... Read More

Nigeria to fine visa overstayers $15 daily

Nigeria, April 11 -- The Nigerian government has announced that travellers who overstay their visas will, from August, face a daily fine of $15 and risk a ban of up to five years from re-entering the ... Read More

Kadaria Ahmed launches scholarship scheme in honour of Rotimi Sankore

Nigeria, April 11 -- Nigerian journalist and media entrepreneur Kadaria Ahmed has established a scholarship scheme to support indigent students at Lagos State University (LASU) in honour of the late R... Read More

Health experts say only 40% of LGAs in Nigeria have qualified medical officers

Nigeria, April 9 -- Public health experts have raised concerns over Nigeria's primary healthcare system, revealing that only about 40 per cent of local government areas (LGAs) have medically qualified... Read More

Nigeria loses billions as 16,000 doctors exit in seven years-Minister

Nigeria, April 9 -- Nigeria has lost over 16,000 doctors in the last five to seven years, a situation that has cost the country billions of naira, according to the Coordinating Minister of Health and ... Read More

Meningitis: Nigeria receives vaccines to tackle fatal outbreak

Nigeria, April 5 -- Nigeria has received over one million doses of the pentavalent meningococcal conjugate vaccine (Men5CV) to combat the meningococcus C and W outbreak in northern Nigeria. The vacci... Read More

Ganduje to chair LASU convocation lecture, as 8,711 graduate

Nigeria, April 3 -- The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and former Governor of Kano State, Abdullahi Ganduje, will on 8 April serve as the chairman of the 28th convocation lec... Read More

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