Health

By John Ikani An AFP tally on Monday revealed that the world has has passed the grim threshold of 4.5 million Covid-19 deaths. No fewer than 4,500,620 people have been killed since the outbreak emerged in...

  By Emmanuel Nduka United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has informed that it will commence prosecution of health workers that involved in the medicalization of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). This was revealed on Monday by UNICEF’s...

By John Ikani  States under the All Progressives Congress (APC) are to henceforth devote 15 percent of their annual budget to healthcare delivery. This decision was taken at a meeting of Commissioners of Health and Executive...

By Ebi Kesiena With vaccination of 80 percent of its 5.7 million people against COVID-19, Singapore is now the worlds most vaccinated country. In a facebook post on Sunday, Singapore’s Health Minister Ong Ye Kung noted...

By Chioma Iruke National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) said it destroyed N5 billion worth of unwholesome goods in five months. This was contained in a statement by the agency’s Media Consultant,...

By John Ikani Latest report by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) indicate that the percentage of women living with HIV/AIDS in Nigeria increased between 2016 and 2019. The report which is tagged; “2020 statistical report...