The Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Prof Muhammad Pate, on Tuesday, said the annual loss to Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product from malaria exceeds $1.1bn....
As monkeypox cases steadily rise across Nigeria, health workers are finding themselves on the frontlines of an uphill battle. In bustling cities and quiet towns alike,...
The Joint Health Sectors Union (JOHESU) and Assembly of Healthcare Professional Associations (AHPA) have declared a seven-day warning strike, effective midnight, October 25, 2024. This decision...
The House of Representatives on Friday urged the Federal Government to increase the allocation to the health sector in the 2024 budget. This followed the adoption...
The Nigerian Union of Allied Health Professionals has asked the Federal Government to immediately implement the technical committee’s report on the adjustment of the Consolidated Health...
Another crisis may be looming in the Nigerian medical sector, as medical doctors under the auspices of Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD), have demanded an...
The New Nigeria Peoples Party presidential candidate, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, on Sunday, condemned the attitude of Nigerian politicians traveling abroad for medical reasons. Kwankwaso, who spoke...
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has expressed its opposition to plans by the Federal Government to privitise the health sector, despite the massive haemorrhaging of experienced...
A cleric, Pastor Peters Omoragbon, Executive President/CEO Nurses Across the Borders International, has called on nurses in the country to vie for political offices in order...
In order to ensure sanity in the health sector, the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has implored the Federal Government to increase funding as enshrined...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has explained that the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic led to the resilience and strengthening of the country’s health...
The Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU) and Assembly of Healthcare Professional Association have issued the Federal Government a 15-day ultimatum over the commencement of an indefinite...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has charged President Muhammadu Buhari to reflect on Nigeria’s health sector and other failing parts of the economy in the wake...
As the world battles with reports of the COVID-19 third wave, Human Rights activist Femi Falana (SAN) has urged African countries to revamp their health sectors...
The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has accused the Minister for Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige and the Minister for Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, of sabotaging...
The Minister of State for Health, Dr. Olorunnibe Mamora, said on Thursday various outstanding achievements of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration in the health sector were grossly...
President Muhammadu Buhari said on Tuesday his administration would embark on a comprehensive health sector reform aimed at providing a world-class health care system capable of...
The Association of Resident Doctors (ARD) of the Federal Medical Centre, Idi-Aba, Ogun State, on Tuesday announced that its doctors were embarking on a 24-hours warning...
House of Representatives on Tuesday rejected a bill seeking to prevent public officials from seeking medical treatment abroad. During the plenary at the lower legislative chamber,...
BY the end of 2018, the Federal Government would have spent the sum of N55.19 trillion as budgets for 10 years, if the N8.612 trillion proposed...
More reasons have emerged on why no fewer than 5,405 Nigerian-trained doctors and nurses are currently working with the British National Health Service (NHS) in the...