Health

The Minister of Water Resources, Alh. Suleiman Adamu during the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) forum, on Sunday in Abuja, urged state governments to enact laws banning open defecation in the country.

A medical expert in Benin, Edo State, Nigeria, Dr. OsasIkponwonsa, says yellow fever infection can lead to other complications if not treated.
Yellow fever is a viral infection spread by a particular species of mosquito; Aedesaegypti.

The Head of Drug Control and Civil Society (DCCS) of the Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS), Hajia Raimat Momodu in Abuja on Wednesday, 19^th December 2018 accused African leaders most especially, Nigerian Government of not doing enough on the fight against drug abuse among its populace.

The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole during the launch of a five-year National Action Plan for Health Security (NAPHS) yesterday in Abuja said that the  Federal Government is committed to providing adequate public health services.

Nomsa Nyali was diagnosed with HIV when she was 22 and pregnant. Her son is now 16 – and she lives to encourage other HIV-positive people to be brave.  “I never get sick; I’m never admitted in a hospital.

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has called on Nigerians across the 36 states and FCT to be alert on the outbreak of Cerebrospinal Meningitis (CSM), as the season commences.