Health

Some health experts have lamented that the funding for the control of tuberculosis by the Federal Government and international donors in the country is...

The Senate has demanded the highest penalty for rapists in the country, with a specific focus on cases involving minors. This was...

National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC has urged fruit sellers to refrain from using calcium carbide to ripen fruits for...

The House of Representatives has urged the Federal Government to release the sum of N10bn approved for the rehabilitation of communities in Plateau State...

The National Commission for Colleges of Education has warned Nigerians against illegal institutions running Nigeria Certificate in Education  programmes across the Country.

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Mohammed Sambo as the new Executive Secretary of National Health Insurance Scheme,...

The Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday issued a bench warrant for the arrest of the President of the Nigeria Football Federation Amaju...

Presidential Amnesty Programme is partnering with  National Board for Technology Incubation NBTI to improve quality and certification of agricultural products...

Chairman, Nigerian National Polio Plus Committee, Tunji Funsho has said Nigeria would save about 500 million dollars in 10 years, if certified polio free,...

The Nigerian Air Force has charged its personnel to continually engage in fitness exercise to make them effective in the discharge of their constitutional...

The World Health Organisation, WHO has advised the Federal Government to strengthen environmental health surveillance and monitoring in the 774 Local Government Areas to...

The Governing Council of the National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control NAFDAC, said it has suspended implementation of the new tariffs which...

Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi, 92, was on Thursday brought to a military hospital after suffering a “severe health crisis”, the presidency said on...

An international NGO, Save the Children, has said that more than two million girls, boys and caregivers need psycho-social support services due to severe...

Global cocaine production reached an all-time high in 2017, breaking the previous year’s record by 25 percent, the UN drugs and crime agency said...

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency NDLEA has called on government at all levels to partner the agency in evolving ways of eradicating cannabis...

More than 1,500 people have died in a nearly 10-month-old outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the health ministry said on...

The National Association of Government General Medical and Dental Practitioners, NAGGMDP has challenged state governments over appropriate infrastructure development in Secondary Health Care to achieve...

The National President of Medical Women’s Association of Nigeria, Joyce Barber has called on Nigerians to donate blood voluntarily to save lives.

President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday said it was criminal for parents to keep their children out of school especially in the first nine years...