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INTERVIEW
Anthrax: Look out for the meat that you buy
Dr Ifedayo Adetifa is the Director General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC. In this interview with Vanguard Newspaper, Adetifa speaks on the case of anthrax discovered in
‘We have successfully remodeled Edo State’s health care system’
Exactly one year ago, the governor of Edo State, Mr. Godwin Obaseki appointed Prof. Obehi Akoria, a consultant physician and head of the Geriatric team of the University of Benin
Nigeria needs sustainable plan to fight COVID-19 – Psychiatrist
A Consultant Neuro-Psychiatrist, Dr. Maymunah Kadiri has call on the federal government to be proactive and put implementable polices in order to check outbreak of pandemics. She says sustainable plan
We are suffering – Resident Doctors
Following its nationwide strike notice, The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors says there’s no going back unless both federal and state governments accede to its demand. Speaking on a radio
Asthma still poorly diagnosed and inadequately treated – Prof. Erhabor
As Nigeria joined the rest of the world to mark the 2020 World Asthma Day on Tuesday May 5, renowned Professor of Medicine and leading Consultant Chest Physicians Professor Gregory
‘No reason clinical trials cannot be done in Nigeria’
Prof. Folakemi Odedina is a cancer scientist and the convener of the first ever Clinical Trial Congress to be held in Nigeria on November 14-16. She is also the foremost
Health workers should provide FP services with evidence-based information – Dr. Sigbeku
Dr. Sigbeku The role of Health service providers has been identified as crucial when it comes to family planning uptake and women’s health in general. In this interview with JULIET
We are recruiting 200,000 health promoters to boost access to health – ED, NPHCDA
In its determination to boost access to health services across the country, especially at the primary health care level, the Nigeria government recently launched Community Health Influencers, Promoters and Services
There’s huge mismatch between skills youths acquire from school and what is needed in the market – UN Envoy
The United Nation’s Youth Envoy, Ms. Jayathma Wickramanayake, had a tour of a few Africa countries in the past few days to interact with youths and governments of the region on
Our donor funds enough to care for all Nigerians with HIV – NACA DG
Funds from the Global Fund, US President’s Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), among others, are enough to place no fewer than 3.2 million Nigerians with HIV on treatment, Director-General,
Family Planning: Nigeria is making progress – Ejike Oji
From a zero budget, not too long ago, to U$ 4 million in 2017, Nigeria seems to be making some progress, albeit slowly, in the provision of access to family
Girl child education key to crashing maternal, child deaths globally – UNFPA Executive Director
Newly-appointed Executive Director, United Nations Population Fund, UNFPA, Dr Nathalia Kanem, is eager to see a world with zero child and maternal deaths by 2030 when, hopefully, the Sustaining Development
’Exercise is one of the antidotes for any kind of sickness,’ fitness expert says
Mr. Okechukwu Akas, the proprietor of Genesis Fitness, Lekki, Lagos, is a certified trainer and physiotherapist by profession. In this interview with Juliet Umeh, NHO correspondent, he sheds some light on the
Chibok girls: We’re happy they were released – UNFPA Deputy Rep.
Out of over 276 Secondary School girls that were abducted by Boko Haram fighters in Chibok community, Borno State, in April 2014 no fewer than106 have regained freedom and are
There’s significant reduction in malaria menace in Nigeria – MSN President
The malaria Society of Nigeria (MSN) took the campaign against the disease to a rural riverine community of Badagry, Lagos State, as part of its activities to commemorate the 2017
We’ll stop malaria from the earth – Gates Foundation Country Rep
…says Foundation spends N250m on health, other interventions in Nigeria yearly Can you imagine the earth without the malaria scourge? Dr Mairo Mandara, Country representative, Bill and Melinda Gates
About 5000 Lagosians may lose homes to flood in 2016, says LASEMA operations boss
Following the prediction by Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NIMET), that high level of flood will occur in Lagos and other states this year, Head Operations and Logistics, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA),
Stroke on increase in Nigeria
Dr Biodun Ogungbo is a Consultant Neurosurgeon and Director, Stroke Action Nigeria. He currently practices at Lifebridge Diagnostic Centre, Abuja. A passionate crusader against stroke, Ogungbo says incident of stroke
Why we adopted Nigeria’s CDC for Africa – Amb Maiyegun
The African Union last weekend adopted the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, as one of its five Regional Collaborating Centres for Disease Control. It is part of the AU’s
INTERVIEW: Nigerians are inviting deafness – ENT Surgeon
In most towns and cities of Nigeria, people are daily being subjected to a cacophony of noise at different levels from record shops, worship places, generators etc. In this interview