Renowned public health expert and former Chief Medical Director of Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Prof. Akin Oshibogun, has dismissed recent claims by a popular pastor suggesting that malaria is not a serious health issue in Africa and that vaccines are part of a global conspiracy. Reacting to the controversial statements, Oshibogu...
Eradicating malaria may remain an elusive dream if leaders of government continue to sideline the country’s health care system, while depending on foreign medical treatment, health campaigners warned yesterday. This is as the world marks World Malaria Day 2025 with the theme: “Malaria Ends With Us: Reinvest, Reimagine, Reignite”, reports The N...
Decades of efforts by various governments and their partners to roll malaria out of Nigeria have not been successful. Rather than mitigate prevalence, malaria has remained high in the country, reports Daily Trust. As Nigerians are grappling with increase in prevalence, a bigger cause of worry for families lately has been the skyrocketing cost ...
•Dr Ayobami Alabi A consultant paediatrician at the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology Teaching Hospital, Dr Ayobami Alabi, says in this interview, that stress does not cause typhoid fever, nor does malaria progress to become typhoid fever without exposure to the germs that cause it, reports Nigerian Tribune. How prevalent is typhoid fev...
•Rape A chemist in Jaba, Fanisau Unogo Local Government Area of Kano State, has been accused of raping a 9-year-old girl, Rumaisa Sadiq, to death. Kano State Commissioner of Women Affairs, Disabled and Children, Hajia Aisha Saji, who confirmed the victim’s death in a statement, said justice would be served, reports Daily Trust. She said [&hell...
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