The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration (NAFDAC) has advised nursing mothers to embrace exclusive breastfeeding to improve the health status of their newborns.
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The Minister of State for Education, Dr Yusuf Sununu has called for stringent laws to address quackery in the health sector.
Niger plans conversion of Shiroro hotel to teaching hospital
By Fatima Zahra Muhammad
ASHENEWS reports that the Niger state governor, Mohammed Umaru Bago says that the state government has concluded plans to convert the Shiroro Hotels, Minna to a teaching hospital.
ASHENEWS reports that stakeholders in the health sector have identified Lassa Fever, Anthrax, Avian Influenza, Rabies, and M -Pox as priority diseases in need of critical attention in Niger State.
Stakeholders in the health sector have urged President Bola Tinubu to address the lingering health issues in the country.
The traditional ruler of Igbaja in Kwara, Oba Ahmed Babalola, has appreciated President Muhammadu Buhari for bringing the first federal government medical project to the town.
Bauchi State Commissioner of Health Dr. Sabiu Abdu Gwalabe has reechoed the importance of maternal, perinatal, and child deaths surveillance response MPCDSR to be carried out within the stipulated 24 hours for such deaths to be reviewed.
The World Health Organization (WHO), says Nigeria is still far from meeting the 2001 15 percent Abuja Declaration on improving the health sector.
Ahmadu Jibril, Special Assistant, Youths and Students to Kogi state governor, Yahaya Bello has told Nigerians to expect an overhaul…
The Nigerian Society for Immunology (NSI) has urged the federal government to boost funding to the health sector so that…