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How Health Council can take tobacco control to states

As the National Council on Health meets in Umuahia, the Abia State capital, it is anticipated that major issues confronting Nigerians and particularly the...

admin - January 27, 2017

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Legislators seek urgent completion of Benue cancer screening centre

The Benue State Government has been asked to expedite action on completing the Cancer Screening Centre under construction at the Pauline Makka Women Centre,...

admin - January 25, 2017

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Support for innovative health technologies in maternal, neonatal care

Prominent research and development agencies have formed an intra – African collaboration in an effort to fund, conduct and facilitate research projects that will...

admin - January 24, 2017

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Revisiting the new import duty on tobacco

That the Federal Government hiked the import duty on tobacco is no doubt cheery news. The wider implication of the policy, announced by Finance...

admin - January 24, 2017

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How tobacco use costs countries $1tr annually

A report released in Washington, D.C on Tuesday, January 10, 2017 may have provided a reason why the fight against tobacco must be a priority...

admin - January 12, 2017

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Government urged to impose special levy on tobacco products

The Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) has urged the federal government to immediately impose a minimum of 150% special levy on...

admin - January 11, 2017

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Ebola virus found hiding in lungs of health-care worker

Ebola has proven itself a tricky foe to get rid of in the human body. In numerous cases in which it was thought to...

admin - January 5, 2017

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WHO, WMO, UNEP join forces on health, environment

As three United Nations bodies come together to work as one to address the root environmental causes of ill health, Dr Margaret Chan (Director-General...

admin - January 5, 2017

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