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Sad: Mother of strikes begins Friday in Abia as doctors down tools over two years salary arrears

If the threat of strike beginning Friday in Abia State public hospitals goes through, then the promised "mother of strikes" by the Nigeria Medical...

Aso Villa top civil servant urges Nigerians to support efforts to end AIDS scourge

TO MARK WORLD AIDS DAY, PERMANENT  SECRETARY URGES NIGERIANS TO SUPPORT EFFORT TO END THE SCOURGE The Permanent Secretary State House, Tijjani Umar, has called...

Commemorating world AIDS day: Equalize to end AIDS; Equal access to treatment and prevention services

By Agbor N. Ebuta MD Since 1988, 34 years after the idea of commemorating the World AIDS Day was first muted, efforts to mark this...

New health reform bill underway, says Osinbajo as committee concludes retreat

  Pending a full committee report review and a complete policy document appraisal, a new health reform bill that will reposition the country's health sector...

No woman should pay with her life giving birth, says FIDA’s Ezinwa Okoroafor

(Featured Photo: Dr. Halima Bello, CMD of Gwarimpa General Hospital taking the FIDA delegation on a tour of the hospital) The 2022 Law week of...

Nigeria ready to be global hub for vaccine production, distribution, says Buhari

NIGERIA READY TO BECOME GLOBAL HUB FOR VACCINE PRODUCTION, DISTRIBUTION, PRESIDENT BUHARI SAYS AT GLOBAL BIO SUMMIT IN SEOUL   ▪︎ WANTS SPEEDY TAKE-OFF OF mRNA...

Four members of a family die after Amala meal; mother alive

Sad, very sad. Four members of a family appear to have died in a community in Kogi State after eating a popular dish of...

FG orders VCs to reopen as parents kick over MDCN registrar’s comments on Ukraine medical graduates

A group known as the Concerned Parents of Ukraine Medical Graduates of 2022 has kicked against the allegation of the Medical and Dental Council...

Nnamdi Kanu’s lawyers seek his unconditional release over deteriorating health, offer to procure his drugs

By Yemi Oyeyemi, Abuja The legal team of the detained leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu has demanded his immediate...

As monkey pox kills seven, 318 cases in 30 states, and 815 suspected cases nationwide, Fayemi lauds Osinbajo over NEC leadership

*NEC GETS BRIEFINGS ON FLOOD MITIGATION, RESPONSE & IMPROVING GOVT SERVICE DELIVERY AT STATE LEVELS* _*Outgoing NGF chair, Gov. Fayemi commends VP Osinbajo’s extraordinary leadership...

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