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World Polio Day: Kaduna celebrates five years without polio

The Executive Secretary, Kaduna State Primary Health Care Development Agency (SPHCDA), Dr. Hadiza Balarabe, on Tuesday, October 24, 2017 said the state has not...

Mugabe would have rejected WHO role, says spokesman

Robert Mugabe would have rejected the role of World health Organisation (WHO) goodwill envoy had he been formally asked, his spokesman said on Tuesday,...

WHO annuls Mugabe’s Goodwill Ambassador appointment

Director General of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has annulled his appointment of President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe as the...

NMA warns against declining immunisation coverage

National Chairman, Nigeria Medical Association (NMA), Dr Mike Ogirima, has decried the declining immunisation coverage in the country and urged government at all levels...

World Trauma Day: Injury kills more than HIV, TB, Malaria combined – Pharmacist

A pharmacist, Lanre Alege, says injury is a trauma that kills more people every year than Human Immuno-deficiency Virus (HIV), tuberculosis and malaria combined. Alege made the...

World Polio Day: Rotary urges Etsu Bwari to sensitise his subjects

The Rotary Club of Abuja has urged the Etsu Bwari, Mr Ibrahim Yaro, to always sensitise his subjects about polio immunisation to prevent recurrence...

250,000 Nigerian women die of cancer annually

Wife of the Executive Governor of Kebbi State, Dr Zainab Bagudu, on Saturday, October 21, 2017 said  about 250,000 Nigerian women die of cancer...

Why more women adopt single motherhood – Expert

A marriage counsellor and psychologist, Dr Rose Chukwuma, on Saturday, October 21, 2017 said more women were embracing the concept of having children outside...

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Health reform aimed at saving lives, reducing pains – Pate

The Minister of Health, Prof. Muhammad Ali Pate, says the ongoing health reform in Nigeria is designed to save...
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10m people could die annually due to antibiotic resistance by 2050 – WAP

World Animal Protection (WAP), an international organisation, says no fewer than 10 million people could die globally each year...

Extreme heat linked to over 1,300 deaths in Portugal in 20 days

The months of July and August 2025 in Portugal were marked by several warnings of high temperatures that coincided...

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