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The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, NCDC, Monday, raised fresh alarm over a sharp spike in Lassa fever infections, confirming that new cases surged by 57 per cent in one week as the country recorded 31 deaths within the first five epidemiological weeks of 2026.
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The Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Diseases Control and Prevention, NCDC, on Monday in an advisory to healthcare workers called for a heightened index of suspicion and strict compliance with Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) measures following a disturbing rise in Lassa fever infections among medical personnel.
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Out of the N218 billion capital project funds appropriated for the health sector in 2025, only a paltry N36 million (barely 0.0165 percent) was released to the Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare.
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By Chioma Obinna A renewed call to end stigma and discrimination against persons living with HIV/AIDS has resonated across Alimosho Local Government Area of Lagos State with the official flag-off of the HIV/AIDS Zero Stigma Campaign. The campaign, organised by the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA) in collaboration with Fresh Insight Nigeria […]
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Public health experts have raised concern over the growing burden of non-communicable diseases, NCDs, in Nigeria, revealing that illnesses such as cancer, diabetes, chronic respiratory diseases and cardiovascular conditions now account for about 30 percent of deaths in the country.
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As foreign aid to Nigeria’s health sector continues to shrink and public hospitals struggle to cope, the Health Federation of Nigeria, HFN, has warned that the country’s healthcare system cannot survive without deliberate, full-scale integration of the private sector.
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The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors, NARD, yesterday condemned the brutal assault on Dr. Adeniyi A., a Registrar in the Department of Internal Medicine at the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Owo, while on duty in the Accident and Emergency Unit on Thursday, February 5, 2026.
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The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors, NARD, on Saturday condemned what it described as Nigeria’s failing healthcare system following the death of Dr. Salome Oboyi, a Senior Registrar in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Bingham University Teaching Hospital (BHUTH), Jos, who died after contracting Lassa fever while treating a patient.
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People who naturally stay up late may be putting their hearts under added strain as they age.
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Heart disease risk begins to climb for men in their mid-30s, years before it rises for women, a decades-long study tracking people from young adulthood has uncovered.
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