•Herbal concoctions The death toll from the consumption of a suspected poisonous herbal drink in Ondo State has risen to 49, with about 170 people reportedly affected by the health crisis. The incident, which was initially reported in Araromi-Obu and Odigbo communities in the Odigbo Local Government Area, has also spread to the Irele Local [&h...
•Diphtheria outbreak Twenty people have died from complications associated with suspected diphtheria cases recorded across 13 local government areas (LGAs) of Adamawa State. The State Epidemiologist, Jones Steven Kadabiyu, confirmed this to our correspondent in Yola during a telephone interview yesterday, reports Daily Trust. Kadabiyu said 126...
The slashing of international aid finance has already hit the fight against AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, the head of a major health fund said today, warning of a long-term impact unless the cuts were reversed. Peter Sands, executive director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, said that the immediate fallout from [&h...
•Adeyanju and Tinubu An Abuja-based human rights lawyer, Deji Adeyanju, has raised the alarm over the flooding of Nigeria’s market with fake drugs and substandard products, calling on President Tinubu to declare a state of emergency to curb the disturbing development. This is even as he called for the sack of the Director General of […]...
•NAFDAC director-general, Mojisola Adeyeye The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has inaugurated a 600-member Pharmacists Reserve Volunteer Programme (PRVP) to strengthen its fight against substandard and falsified medicines. The PRVP will also help the agency improve its ability to respond to drug-related e...
•Diphtheria The Zamfara State Ministry of Education, Science and Technology has extended the resumption date of all public and private schools in the state by two weeks following a health advisory on the prevailing diphtheria situation. It stated that the new resumption date is Monday, September 28, 2026, subject to confirmation with the appro...
For more than 150 kidney patients gathered under canopies in Enugu, and thousands of others across the country, the struggle goes beyond the pain of a failing organ. It is a daily battle to raise the money needed to stay alive. Recently, videos and pictures of some of the patients in Enugu surfaced on social […]
•Invited proprietors of private health training institutions in Jigawa State during a stakeholders engagement meeting in Dutse, yesterday The seven North-West states have vowed to shut down any private health training institution operating without full compliance with the requirements prescribed by law, in a fresh push to safeguard public hea...
•Lassa fever Director-general, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC), Dr Jide Idris, has identified Ondo, Bauchi, Taraba, Edo and Benue as the five high burden states for Lassa fever in the country, stressing that they account for 86 per cent of cases so far in 2026. He called on healthcare workers, state governments, [&hell...
•Diphtheria outbreak The Lagos State government says it has recorded 53 suspected cases of diphtheria in 2026, out of which six were laboratory -confirmed positive. The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Professor Akin Abayomi, disclosed this during a press conference on the state’s Diphtheria Preparedness and Response held at the Conference...
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