Over 20,000 children across the Federal Republic of Nigeria's Bayelsa state recently gained access to malaria vaccines, bypassing tradit...

Nigeria continues to lead the world in malaria cases and deaths, despite decades of global and domestic investments, according to the latest...

Nigerian health authorities are struggling to contain a rapidly spreading meningitis outbreak that has so far killed 151 people across the ...

Chronic kidney disease affects 15 percent of Nigeria's population, with an estimated 45,000 deaths annually due to kidney failure. A ...

  At first it seemed to work. The grandmother warmed towards Fatima's children, who were aged between two and 16 at the time. But then t...

The West African nation has increased the retirement age for healthcare workers to 65, with consultants now able to work until 70. This d...

Following a sudden pause in U.S. HIV/AIDS aid, Nigeria has allocated 3 million U.S. dollars in emergency funds and set up a committee for...

The Federal Government’s initiative to offer free emergency Cesarean sections (C-section or CS) for poor and vulnerable women in Nigeria who...

Although Babatunde Fashola, affectionately known as Baba, is 22 years old, he is less than 70cm (2ft 4in) tall. He has cerebral palsy and re...

Nigeria has advanced its national cancer control programme in the last decade and is making steady progress towards expanding care for milli...

Nigeria has launched an emergency response centre after recording 190 deaths from Lassa fever, a viral hemorrhagic illness, the country'...

The coalition of health sector unions in Lagos State on Wednesday began a three-day warning strike over non-implementation of adjustments to...

Nigeria, the country with the most malaria deaths worldwide, began rolling out a vaccine against the disease for the first time. The vaccine...

The government started the long-delayed program on Monday. The effort targets medics and those with low immunity. Now fully protected, man...

Borno state, in northeastern Nigeria, has been severely impacted by recent floods, which have displaced more than 400 000 people and led to ...

Nigeria’s National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has published an update to an alert notifying Nigerians of a...

Statistics by the United Nations health agency indicate Nigeria has the third biggest shortage of healthcare workers globally. The profess...

President Bola Tinubu's executive order granting VAT and customs waivers on pharmaceuticals and medical devices is designed to reduce ...

Nigeria is set to receive its first shipment of the highly anticipated malaria vaccines on Thursday, marking a significant step in the count...

To reduce the high cost of curative therapies, Medic Partners Multi Specialist Hospital last week launched a range of advanced procedures de...