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The World Health Organisation (WHO) has announced that more than 47 million health professionals, patients, and advocates have signed a global call for urgent action to reduce air pollution in order to protect life on the planet. This call aims to protect public

Family Health Advocates in Nigeria Initiative (FHANI) has called on the Kaduna State government to commit at least N100 million annually to procure family planning kits and watch maternal mortality go down rapidly in the State. . This appeal came against the

‘What we have found could ruin a nation. What we have found could destabilise a government. What we have found could reduce quality of life of millions of Nigerians’ The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), has seized

The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Federal Operations Unit Zone C, Owerri has handed over assorted contraband pharmaceuticals worth millions of Naira to the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC). Comptroller Michael Ugbuagu, in-charge of NCS Zone C,

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, (NAFDAC) has urged health sector stakeholders in the South-South region to join in the fight against substandard and falsified (SF) medical products in Nigeria. Speaking at a two-day workshop sensitisation workshop organised by

We are at breaking point–NANNM The federal government has lamented the growing interest of healthcare workers, particularly nurses, in professional practice abroad, describing it as a threat to the efficient and effective healthcare delivery system in Nigeria. It thus appealed to

The Lagos State Government has activated its Emergency Response Committee, following the outbreak of diphtheria in the boarding house of King’s College, Lagos, Victoria Island Annex. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the government’s disclosure came following the news

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has confirmed a new case of Lassa fever in a 31-year-old physician who had recently travelled to the United Kingdom. NCDC Director-General, Dr Jide Idris, disclosed this in an interview with the

Decries volume of narcotics in Onitsha markets National Agency for Food Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has finally announced the reopening of the Onitsha Drug Market, and other adjoining markets, after close to one month of closure. The South East

A Consultant Clinical Microbiologist and Head, Department of Medical Microbiology & Parasitology, University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, Dr Mary Alex-Wele, has warned that Nigeria’s growing antibiotics resistance poses a severe threat to public health. Alex-Wele, who also serves as the Chairperson, Nigeria