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...
North-East has one; the North-Central has one and the South-South has one; in Benin, Jos and Jalingo respectively President Muhammadu Buhari President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday approved the establishment of three additional orthopaedic hospitals representing three regions of the...
By InfactNG President Muhammadu Buhari and other political office holders, fond of engaging in medical tourism for the slightest ailments should henceforth desist and emulate vice president, Yemi Osinbajo by patronizing Nigeria hospitals with it's capable medical personnel. The...
By InfactNG Could respite be on the way for the now depressed former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu as a United Kingdom court has ruled that, David Ukpo, the alleged victim in the organ harvesting saga lied about his age....
By Editor, Sokoto Fatimah Buba did not get to see her son. He was taken away after his birth, out of the labour room into the morgue after which he was buried. He was a stillbirth. His birth had...
By Elohor Igbru The Federal Government has launched a landmark tobacco control tool, the Tobacco Control Data Initiative Dashboard, a virtual (web-based) dashboard. which would serve as the verified database for information necessary for the implementation of tobacco control...
By Taiwo Ajala, Abuja The Federal Ministry of Health has called on students in the Federal Capital Territory and neighbouring Nasarawa State to shun the use of tobacco and tobacco product consumption to protect themselves and others in the...
From Elohor Igbru, Abuja The Nigerian government in collaboration with Development Gateway (DG), a data for development nonprofit organisation has developed the Tobacco Control Data Initiative (TCDI) website which creates a “ one-stop-shop” that would allow stakeholders and general public...
By Ademola Adeleye Religious leaders in the country are set to support programs that will encourage improved Maternal and Infant Young Child Nutrition indices in the country. Faith leaders made this commitment during advocacy visits by the Accelerating Nutrition...
