The Borno State Ministry of Health has declared a cholera outbreak in the state.
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The Cope and Live Mental Health Awareness Foundation, an NGO, based in Enugu state, has advocated using exposure therapy in psychological treatment for people living with excessive fear and anxiety.
No fewer than 1.1 million children are being targeted in the forthcoming Anambra State 2024 integrated Measles Campaign to protect children and reduce the burden of the disease.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has granted Emergency Use Listing (EUL) status to the first mpox in vitro diagnostic (IVD), marking a critical step toward improving global access to mpox testing.
The African Development Bank (AfDB) says it has set a target to produce an additional 120 million tonnes of food by 2025.
The World Bank has approved a 500 million dollar loan to support the Sustainable Power and Irrigation for Nigeria (SPIN) project aimed at reducing climate-induced challenges.
Doctors say Tramadol is an opioid used for pain management, with a huge potential for misuse. This misuse, according to doctors, is associated with increased morbidity and mortality and is more rampant among young adults in low-income settings. In Nigeria today, the abuse of Tramadol has become a crippling affliction, virtually synonymous with every home. Nearly every family is affected by individuals—both young and old—who are directly or indirectly dependent on one suppressant or another. Tramadol is widely, and often wrongly, advertised as a drug that suppresses or reduces the intensity of stress. Given that virtually everyone in Nigeria is…
The Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Sen. Abubakar Kyari, on Thursday tasked agriculture experts, research institutes and relevant stakeholders with the promotion of sustainable development of okra breeding programmes.
One of the things we know from the history of democratisation all over the world is that no country has succeeded in institutionalising democracy without bringing all sectors of the community into the theory and practice of governance. Following the Second World War in which the colonial powers deployed tens of thousands of soldiers from the colonies to fight “for freedom”, the soldiers came back to a political reality of being subjects of an essentially enslaved colonial country. Their response was to struggle for independence, which they did successfully. Nigeria returned to democracy in 1999 following a broad-based struggle against…
Following the flood that submerged 70 communities in Kogi, the state government has appealed to the Federal Government to intervene urgently to mitigate the impact of the flood.