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Federal regulators incinerated ₦59m worth of expired, donated pharmaceuticals at the Igwuruta dump site in Port Harcourt this week. The shipment arrived from the United States through the Area 1 Port before port inspectors intercepted the entire batch. The haul packed a 40-foot container with anti-ulcer treatments, hypertension pills, painkillers, antidepressants, and general medical consumables….
The politics of a public health emergency has broken into the open in Gombe State, where the ruling All Progressives Congress has accused the opposition Peoples Democratic Party of turning a diphtheria outbreak into a partisan weapon, even as the disease continues to kill children across northern Nigeria. In a statement issued in Gombe…
Officers of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency have seized incoming shipments of synthetic cannabis from Britain and dismantled a distribution ring using music speakers and loaves of bread to hide narcotics. The operations yielded more than 2.3 tonnes of illicit drugs and led to multiple arrests across eight states, according to a statement released…
The Democratic Republic of Congo is enduring the worst Ebola epidemic in its history as confirmed infections crossed the 7,000 mark. Official data released late on Friday by the Congolese health ministry placed total recorded infections at 7,022, with the national death toll climbing to 3,398. That puts the case fatality rate at a harrowing…
The World Bank invested about N1.5 billion in the implementation of the IMPACT Malaria Project in Ondo State, according to the Institute of Human Virology Nigeria. IHVN said the intervention contributed to improvements in malaria control, under-five mortality, immunisation coverage and primary healthcare delivery across the state. The institute’s Chief Operating Officer and Managing Director,…
The safety of some everyday foods sold across Nigerian markets has come under renewed attention after the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) clarified the limits of its regulatory reach over traditionally packaged staples such as unbranded palm oil and fufu. The agency said while it has responsibility for regulating processed…
Health authorities in Plateau State are intensifying efforts to contain a diphtheria outbreak after reported cases and fatalities increased in parts of the state, prompting emergency measures including expanded surveillance, vaccination activities and the temporary closure of schools. The outbreak has drawn attention because diphtheria is a vaccine-preventable bacterial infection that can spread quickly, particularly…
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…