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Deputy Governor’s death: Bayelsa governor orders compulsory medical checks for exco members

The Governor of Bayelsa State, Senator Douye Diri, has directed the Commissioner for Health, Prof. Seiyefa Brisibe, to ensure that all members of the...

Blood on the altar, gold in the forest: How illegal mining is driving terror in Nigeria – the Kogi example

By Omotunde Omolehin & Usman Ozovehe Kogi West is once again counting its dead. Three worshippers abducted from an Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA) service in Ayetoro-Kiri,...

FCT health insurance adds 33,000 new enrollees, surpasses target of 25,000

The FCT Administration says it has pushed its health insurance drive above the 2025 ministerial target, recording over 33,000 new enrollees into the FCT-Health...

NASS gives new directive on foreign grants amid invitation to EFCC, ICPC to probe of $4.6b grants

The Ministry of Health & Social Welfare and the country’s national grant coordination platform (the Country Coordinating Mechanism (Nigeria)) have been instructed to ensure...

Nationwide strike looms as resident doctors issue 19-point ultimatum

Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) on Monday unveiled a 19-point list of demands it says are “minimum expectations” to avert a full-scale, indefinite...

Court-appointed medical team declares Nnamdi Kanu fit to stand trial

A team of medical experts appointed by the Federal High Court to assess the health condition of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People...

Breaking the silence on Dyslexia in Nigeria

By Chinelo Ngolikaego Ezigbo When I first wrote about growing up in Nigeria with undiagnosed dyslexia, the response reminded me I was not alone. Parents...

Court declines hearing Nnamdi Kanu’s request for medical transfer to National Hospital

By Yemi Oyeyemi, Abuja Justice Musa Liman of the Federal High Court in Abuja has declined to hear a motion filed by Nnamdi Kanu, leader...

Nigeria-born doctor emerges as only graduating neurosurgeon produced by South African university

Nigeria-born medical practitioner from Anambra State, Dr. Anderson Chinedu Tochukwu Anyikwa, on September 12, 2025, emerged the only graduating neurosurgeon produced by the famous...

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