Health

By Chioma Obinna The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has blacklisted Onifam Laboratories Limited, its Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, members of its board of directors and other affiliated individuals and entities over alleged regulatory violations. The agency said the sanction, which takes immediate effect, bars the company and the affected […]

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… 27 attacks on health care recorded in one month … Appeals for $6.42m to sustain lifesaving health services in Sudan, Somalia, Djibouti By Chioma Obinna The World Health Organization, WHO, has raised fresh alarm over a worsening humanitarian and public health crisis across the Eastern Mediterranean Region, warning that renewed conflict, disease outbreaks, food […]

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… Says new institution will boost medical training, research, health securityBy Chioma Obinna The Association of Medical Laboratory Scientists of Nigeria, AMLSN, on Wednesday hailed the Senate’s passage of the bill establishing the Federal University of Medical Laboratory Science and Technology, Jos, describing it as a landmark decision that could transform healthcare education, strengthen Nigeria’s […]

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… Raise alarm over widening global immunisation gapBy Chioma Obinna No fewer than 13.5 million infants missed all routine vaccines in 2025, as the World Health Organisation (WHO) and UNICEF warned that conflict, poverty and vaccine hesitancy are slowing global immunisation progress, leaving millions of children vulnerable to preventable diseases. The warning came Tuesday as […]

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… Contaminated floodwaters, blocked drainages heighten cholera, typhoid, malaria risks…Urge govts to strengthen surveillance, stock medicines before deaths riseBy Chioma Obinna The floodwaters that swept through Lagos and several parts of Nigeria in recent weeks left behind more than submerged homes, impassable roads and ruined livelihoods. Across communities battered by relentless rainfall, families watched helplessly […]

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By Chioma Obinna A 22-year-old pregnant woman found unconscious on a Lagos street has been rescued from the brink of death, delivered of a healthy baby girl and reunited with the Plateau State Government in what officials described as another success story of the Lagos State emergency healthcare intervention programme. The woman, identified as Tingni […]

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…Insists 10,430 cases are diagnoses, not fresh infectionsBy Chioma Obinna The Lagos State Government on Thursday dismissed widespread reports that the state recorded 10,430 new HIV infections in 2025, clarifying that the figure represents newly diagnosed cases and not fresh infections, even as it announced a historic move to directly procure antiretroviral drugs, becoming the […]

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By Chioma Obinna The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has threatened to embark on an indefinite strike at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) over the hospital’s continued failure to restore call meals for resident doctors. The association warned that the dispute, which it said has lingered for months, could disrupt healthcare services at […]

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