The Journal seeks to become the most reliable, first-choice Pan-Nigerian information and public knowledge platform. The Journal Nigeria is a serious Journalism from an African Worldview
The Journal seeks to become the most reliable, first-choice Pan-Nigerian information and public knowledge platform. The Journal Nigeria is a serious Journalism from an African Worldview
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Nigeria has recorded 1,035 confirmed cases of Lassa fever and 252 deaths across 23 states and 117 local government areas in the first 33 epidemiological weeks of 2026, according to the latest situation report from the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention. The case fatality rate stands at 24.4 per cent, higher than…
A renewed diphtheria outbreak in Niger State has highlighted continuing gaps in childhood immunisation coverage and disease prevention efforts, with health authorities reporting confirmed infections and deaths despite the availability of effective vaccines against the highly contagious disease. The outbreak, which affected communities including Chanchaga and Katcha Local Government Areas, has raised concerns over…
Fresh figures from Nigeria’s health authorities have laid bare the scale of a diphtheria outbreak that began almost four years ago and still refuses to end, with the overwhelming majority of victims turning out to be children who never received a single vaccine against a disease that is entirely preventable. The Director General of the…
Nigeria has recorded more than 10,000 confirmed diphtheria cases in 2026, a fresh indication that a disease preventable through routine vaccination remains a significant public health problem nearly four years after the country’s major outbreak began. The latest figure, disclosed by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) Director General, Dr Jide…
A cancer diagnosis is no longer only a question of whether a tumour can be removed, treated or placed into remission. For thousands of Nigerians, it can also become a prolonged struggle with pain, treatment costs, lost income, family pressure and limited access to specialised care. That reality has renewed attention on a…
Nigeria has recorded more than 65,000 suspected cholera cases across 35 states this year as poor sanitation and contaminated water supplies trigger a nationwide health crisis. The Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr Jide Idris, confirmed that the waterborne bacterial infection has now breached roughly 195 local government areas. The…
The Democratic Republic of Congo launched an emergency vaccination campaign in the city of Kisangani on Friday, 28 August 2026, administering initial doses to frontline healthcare workers battling a lethal Ebola surge. Health authorities deployed the first batch of more than 50,000 vaccine units to shield doctors and nurses as national infection figures climbed to…
The World Health Organisation declared Uganda free of the Ebola virus on Wednesday, 26 August 2026, after the country passed forty-two consecutive days without a single fresh infection. The global health body ratified Kampala’s domestic declaration following an extensive post-discharge monitoring window across frontline districts. The latest outbreak began on 15 May 2026 when infected…
Pope Leo XIV has called for urgent international intervention to contain a deadly Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Addressing crowds in St Peter’s Square after his Angelus prayer on Sunday, the pontiff warned that the virus is spreading rapidly and taking an immense human toll. The current health emergency marks the country’s…
The daughters of veteran Yoruba actor Taiwo Hassan, popularly known by his screen name Ogogo, have made separate emotional appeals for urgent medical help for their 66-year-old father, who they say is battling stage-four cancer after hospitals reportedly declined to continue his treatment. In videos posted on Instagram on Monday, Lima and Kira Taiwo…