From Seun Akioye, New York The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) yesterday announced an additional funding commitments of $200 million towards achieving universal access to family planning products and information, faster delivery of lifesaving health solutions, and a...
By Adeyemi Olusoga/Abuja The co-chairs of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), Bill Gates and Melinda French-Gates have highlighted seven new innovations which if made available to those who need them, would save at least two million mothers...
By Ademola Adeleye Four Nigerian innovators in health, education and financial inclusion are part of 50 grant recipients who are developing global health and development solutions for their communities using Artificial Intelligence (AI)-enabled Large Language Models (LLMs). The recipients...
By Temilolu Oke Bill Gates, one of the world’s greatest philanthropists and co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) has said he sees a brighter future for Nigeria and its young people would be at the head...
By Lucky Ekpenriebe Microsoft Co-founder, Bill Gates has told world leaders to prepare for the next major virus which will be man-made and more dangerous than COVID-19. Speaking at the Lowy Institute think tank in Sydney, Bill Gates urged...
By Mark Suzman During the COVID-19 pandemic, the remarkable, unprecedented progress made over the previous two decades in global health and development has stalled, and in many cases even reversed. Sadly, instead of accelerating efforts to fight infectious diseases,...
By Taiwo Ajala. Nigerian politician and former Corps Marshall of the Federal Road Safety Corps, Osita Chidoka has lamented how the inefficiency of medical personnel at the Federal Medical Center, Jabi Abuja killed his brother-in -law. More painful according...
By BBC Doctors recruited from some of the world's poorest countries to work in UK hospitals say they're being exploited - and believe they're so overworked they fear putting patients' health at risk. A BBC investigation has found evidence...
By Taiwo Ajala There is good news for Nigerians especially those who are infirmed as the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) have agreed to suspend a strike ultimatum given to the Federal Government. Some of the demands contained...
By Victor Emeruwa The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has scary statistics about malnutrition in Nigeria with the country having the second highest burden of stunted children in the world. But that was not all, more than two million...
