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World Oral Health Day: NMA underlines need for regular checkup

The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) on Saturday, March 18, 2017 advised Nigerians to visit the dentist every six months in order to check gum...

Michael Simire - March 19, 2017

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Cholera kills 80 in Zamfara

Commissioner for Health in Zamfara State, Alhaji Suleiman Gummi, has said no fewer than 80 people were killed by a cholera outbreak in the...

admin - March 14, 2017

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Flagship child advocacy centre opens in Lagos

The Cece Yara foundation, an advocacy organisation, in line with its aim and vision to effectively tackle the menace of child sexual abuse, is...

admin - March 13, 2017

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Borno reports first Lassa fever outbreak in 48 years

Borno State in northeast Nigeria has recorded its first Lassa fever outbreak in almost five decades. The last confirmed outbreak of the deadly disease...

admin - March 12, 2017

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Ekiti, Nasarawa to introduce sex education in curriculum

In collaboration with the Nigerian Academy of Science (NAS) and Ford Foundation, the governments of Ekiti and Nasarawa states recently in Lagos publicly presented...

admin - March 5, 2017

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Kano Specialist Hospital rehabilitation gulps N200m

To complement its N7 billion Surgical and Diagnostic Centre (SDC) currently under construction, the Dangote Foundation has concluded the renovations of some sections of...

admin - March 2, 2017

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Fresh concern over drug-resistant tuberculosis

TB Alliance and the broader TB community are asking the World Health Organisation (WHO) to add Mycobacterium tuberculosis to the critical group within the list of drug-resistant...

admin - March 1, 2017

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ERA/FoEN has right to information on tobacco incentives, court affirms

A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos and presided by Justice M. Idris has affirmed that the Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria...

admin - February 20, 2017

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