The Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Prof. Muhammad Pate, has warned that global health gains remain fragile amid a “poly-crisis” of overlapping economic, political and technological shocks affecting countries worldwide. Pate spoke on Monday in Abuja at the SPARK Transnational Research Boot Camp and Conference 2026, organized by the National Institute for Pharmaceutical Research and Development (NIPRD) and the Presidential Initiative for Unlocking the Health Care Value Chain. SPARK stands for Stanford Programme in Applied Research for Knowledge. According to him, science and the scientific method remain “the fundamental path” to societal progress. The minister noted that scientific…
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The Environmental Health Council of Nigeria (EHCON) has reiterated its commitment to implementing the National Emergency Response Initiative on Environmental Public Health Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions (NERI-EPHIGGE) nationwide. The Registrar of EHCON, Dr Yakubu Baba, stated this on Monday during a stakeholders’ engagement on greenhouse gas emissions and the declaration of a public health emergency on environmental-related diseases, held in Abuja. He explained that the NERI-EPHIGGE framework provides a structured, coordinated and results-driven approach to addressing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Baba lamented that environmental-related diseases linked to GHG emissions remain one of Nigeria’s most pressing yet under-recognised public health…
Five states in Nigeria which are Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Kebbi, and Sokoto, have renewed commitment to domestic resource mobilization for improved investment on child and maternal health care in the states. Commissioners of Health in the states made the pledge at the Integrated Child Survival Advocacy (ICSA) strategic alignment with state leadership and partners in Abuja, on the theme “strengthening PHC financing, integration, and community accountability for improved child survival outcomes.” Over 60 participants including the six Commissioners for Health (Kaduna Kano, Katsina, Kebbi, Sokoto and Osun), three Commissioners for Local Government (Kaduna, Kano and Katsina) and six Executive Secretaries…
The Federal Government has commenced the distribution of foodstuffs to Persons With Disabilities (PWDs) and vulnerable persons in Edo State. Patricia Imade, the Edo State Coordinator of the Federal Ministry of Food and Security flag off the distribution on Monday, February 2026 at the Army Salvation, Benin Rehabilitation Centre. Imade, who distributed over 500 bags of processed garri to the Joint National Association of Persons with Disabilities (JONAPWD), the umbrella body of PWDs said the empowerment was part of the Renewed Hope Agenda of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. She said the gesture under the Renewed Hope National Accelerated Garri Production…
The National Office for Technology Acquisition and Promotion (NOTAP) says it is taking its Intellectual Property (IP) regularization efforts to university researchers and innovators across the country. The Director-General of NOTAP, Dr Obiageli Amadiobi, said this during an interview with reporters in Abuja on Monday. She said the agency was determined to ensure that research outcomes moved from shelves to practical use for the benefit of society. According to her, there are plans to extend the outreach to all segments of the nation’s higher education system. “NOTAP has realized that the missing link was a formal bridge to the marketplace.…
The Kwara State Government on Monday organized a nine-day Integrated Training Programme for 55 newly recruited health workers in Omuaran, Irepodun Local Government Area of the state. The exercise represents the second batch of training for newly recruited health workers. It would be recalled that 100 healthcare workers, including nurses and Community Health Extension Workers (CHEWs), were successfully trained in the first batch in 2025. Prof. Nusirat Elelu, Executive Secretary of the Kwara State Primary Health Care Development Agency, described the programme as a capacity-building initiative aimed at improving the quality of healthcare across the state’s primary health facilities. She…
The Lagos Waste Management Authority (LAWMA) has seized waste carts and arrested one person during an early-morning enforcement operation on Lagos Island, aimed at curbing illegal waste disposal. This was disclosed in a statement signed by the Director of Public Affairs, LAWMA, Mr Mukaila Sanusi, on Monday in Lagos. Sanusi said the operation followed targeted surveillance designed to tackle unregulated waste movement and prevent the re-emergence of illegal dump sites earlier cleared by the authority. He said LAWMA enforcement officers intercepted several waste carts at Isale-Eko during a coordinated dawn operation across key locations on Lagos Island. According to him,…
Dangote Industries Limited has entered into a strategic cooperation agreement with XCMG Construction Machinery Co. Ltd, one of China’s leading construction and mining equipment manufacturers, in a move aimed at strengthening infrastructure delivery, industrial capacity and green project development across Africa. Under the agreement, the two companies will collaborate across multiple sectors including mining, petrochemicals, building materials, agriculture and infrastructure construction, leveraging their respective strengths to pursue joint growth and long-term value creation. Dangote Group, Africa’s largest diversified industrial conglomerate, operates across cement manufacturing, petrochemicals, fertiliser, agriculture, food processing, mining, ports and logistics in Nigeria and several other African countries.…
Three subsidiaries of Dangote Industries Limited, Dangote Petroleum Refinery, Dangote Fertiliser Plant and Dangote Cement Plc have scaled up their Gas Sales and Purchase Agreements (GSPA) with subsidiaries of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC Ltd): Nigerian Gas Marketing Limited and NNPC Gas Infrastructure Company Limited (NGIC). The upscaled Supply Agreements will help to drive the conglomerate’s Vision 2030, resulting in increased output, better and cleaner energy supply as well as support ongoing expansion projects. The Agreements were signed at the unveiling of the NNPC Gas Master Plan (GMP) 2026, tagged NGMP 2026 held at the NNPC Towers weekend…
Dr Chukwuma Anyaike, a retired Director of Public Health at the Federal Ministry of Health, has warned that snakebite envenoming, classified as a highest-priority Neglected Tropical Disease (NTD), remains a major public health threat in Nigeria. Anyaike said this in an interview with reporters on Monday in Abuja, describing snakebite as a “silent killer” that disproportionately affects farmers, herders and rural dwellers—groups critical to the nation’s food security and economic stability. Recent data presented during World NTD Day 2026 indicate that Nigeria remains one of the world’s high-burden countries for snakebite envenoming, with the carpet viper (Echis ocellatus) accounting for…