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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The doctors and nurses standing between Ebola and the population of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo are now fighting on two fronts, one against a virus with no cure and another against a government that has not paid them since the outbreak began. At the Ebola treatment centre in Rwampara, one of the worst…
The Ebola outbreak tearing through the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has now killed 600 people, a grim figure released by the World Health Organisation on Thursday that lays bare how quickly the virus is spreading despite an intensifying containment effort. What alarms health officials most is the pace: the death toll crossed 500 only…
The World Health Organization has warned that the ongoing Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak has surpassed 1,480 cases, making it the third-largest Ebola epidemic on record. The bulk of the crisis remains concentrated in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where 1,460 cases and 452 deaths have occurred. International health agencies declared the…
The Democratic Republic of Congo has begun testing two experimental therapies against the rare Bundibugyo strain of Ebola driving a deadly outbreak in its northeast, the World Health Organisation announced on Thursday, marking a critical turn in a response that has struggled to keep pace with the spread of the virus. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom…
A federal agency tasked with protecting Nigerians from epidemics has pushed back against lawmakers’ plans to create a second public health institution, warning that the move could fracture the country’s disease response at a moment when it can least afford disruption. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention told the House of Representatives…
A fresh warning has gone out to Nigerian consumers and traders over two alcoholic energy drinks already barred from the market, after regulators across the border intercepted a sizeable stock of the products in circulation. The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control raised the alert in Public Alert No. 032/2026, posted…
A deadly surge in Lassa fever infections is overwhelming local containment efforts across Nigeria. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention revealed that total fatalities from the viral outbreak have climbed to 214 this year. More troubling than the raw death toll is a soaring case fatality rate, which has reached a grim 25…
A staggering 40 percent of medical laboratory results for genotype testing in Nigeria are inaccurate or entirely false. Healthcare experts delivered this alarming revelation during a specialised summit marking the International Sickle Cell Day in Lagos. These widespread diagnostic errors directly fuel the country’s worsening sickle cell epidemic by misleading couples into incompatible marriages. Nigeria…
A doctor is attacked roughly once every two weeks in Nigeria’s hospitals, fresh figures from the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors have shown, laying bare the deepening risks frontline health workers face in the very institutions where they save lives. No fewer than 30 resident doctors were assaulted across Nigeria within the last year,…
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has announced sweeping funding cuts for HIV prevention programmes across Nigeria and 61 other low- and middle-income nations. A comprehensive review by the Geneva-based multilateral institution reveals that a severe tightening of international donor allocations has forced a major restructuring of its global healthcare financing portfolio….