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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A lethal cluster of diphtheria wiped out five young siblings in Danbare Ward within Kano State’s Kumbotso Local Government Area on Tuesday, 13 October, exposing the terrible human toll of northern Nigeria’s broken child immunisation system. The victims, aged between one and thirteen years, died in rapid succession within eight days after their parents brought…
Ondo State Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa has ordered the fumigation of the Igbokoda River and the distribution of nose masks and health kits to residents, nine days after a Nigerian Air Force aircraft plunged into the waterway and killed all 25 people on board. The directive was announced on Wednesday in a statement signed by…
Federal food and drug regulators smashed an illicit beverage manufacturing ring at the Lagos Trade Fair Complex on Tuesday, 13 October, seizing counterfeit spirits and adulterated wines valued at over two billion naira. Operatives from the Investigation and Enforcement Directorate of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control uncovered more than twenty…
The International Finance Corporation pledged 24.3 million dollars on Thursday, 8 October 2026, to expand diagnostic clinics and specialised oncology centres across Nigeria. The private lending arm of the World Bank Group channels this long-term financing into a joint venture with the Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority to broaden modern cancer treatment beyond the gilded private…
The Institute of Human Virology in Nigeria called on journalists on Thursday, 8 October 2026, to dismantle pervasive public stigma and spur the uptake of pre-exposure prophylaxis against HIV across the federation. Health authorities gathered editors in Lagos alongside delegates from the National Agency for the Control of AIDS to arrest an alarming trend of…
Professor Fatiu Arogundade warned on Thursday, 8 October 2026, that roughly 25.4 million adult Nigerians now live with overt or covert chronic kidney disease. The vice chancellor of the Federal University of Medicine and Medical Sciences in Abeokuta delivered this grim epidemiological appraisal during an academic lecture, noting that an unrecorded health disaster currently guts…
Veteran Nollywood actress Ngozi Ezeonu has urged Nigerians and government authorities to act against the circulation of counterfeit drugs, baby formula and other consumer products in the country. Veteran Nollywood actress Ngozi Ezeonu has raised concerns over the alleged circulation of counterfeit drugs, baby formula and other consumer products in Nigeria. Ezeonu expressed her concerns…
The National Health Insurance Authority says it has expanded the financial protection it offers cancer patients, shielding eligible enrollees from 80 per cent of the cost of selected cancer medicines and raising support for radiotherapy and diagnostic tests. The authority set out the measures in a statement issued on Sunday to mark Breast Cancer Awareness…
Non-communicable ailments accounted for 74 per cent of all human mortality in 2023, according to fresh Global Health Estimates that the World Health Organisation published in Geneva on Saturday, 3 October 2026. The figures reveal that eight of the ten leading causes of death worldwide now stem from chronic conditions such as stroke, heart disease,…
A Lagos court will decide on 12 October 2026 whether the coroner’s inquest into the death of Nkanu Adichie-Esege, son of the author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Dr Ivara Esege, should be stopped. Justice Aishat Opesanwo of the Lagos State High Court, sitting at Osborne Foreshore in Ikoyi, fixed the date on Monday after…