World Health Day: FG unveils 2025 National Health Facility Survey
The Minister of State for Health and Social Welfare, Dr Iziaq Adekunle Salako, has reaffirmed the unwavering commitment of the ...
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2025 World Cancer Day: FG to establish, upgrade tertiary health institutions for cancer care services
The Minister of State for Health and Social Welfare, Dr. Iziaq Adekunle Salako (m), addresses journalists in commemoration of the ...
Understanding Mental Health: Beyond Madness
Mental health, as defined by the World Health Organization (WHO), is “a state of well-being in which the individual realizes ...
Nigeria marks 2024 World Sickle Cell Day with strategic health interventions
As Nigeria joins the rest of the world to commemorate the 2024 World Sickle Cell Day, the government has announced ...
NAFDAC calls for action against food-borne illnesses
The Director General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, has called ...
Patients in Gaza hospitals beg for food and water as they lie ‘waiting to die,’ WHO official says
Patients and internally displaced people are pictured at Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City on November 10, 2023, amid ongoing battles ...
WHO updates tracking system for variants of SARS-CoV-2
The World Health Organisation (WHO), on Thursday updated its tracking system and working definitions for variants of SARS-CoV-2, the virus ...
Data remains essential document for risk assessments of COVID-19- WHO
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says data remains essential for the organisation to carry out regular, rapid and robust risk ...
Nigeria facing climate change challenges, Buhari tells Ban Ki-Moon in Seoul
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday said Nigeria was already experiencing the negative fallout of climate change seen in the flooding ...
Buhari in Seoul, says Nigeria ready to become global hub for vaccine production
President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed Nigeria’s readiness to become a global hub for sustainable manufacturing and distribution of vaccine and ...