Health

Following the outbreak of Dihtheria disease that has claimed a student life at kings collage Lagos, the Principal of the College, Mogaji Zakaria, says the school has put measures in place to curb the spread and contraction of the diseases. It was learned that a death of a Junior Secondary School student was recorded following the disease outbreak in the school; this is as other students of other popular Nigerian government-owned school suffered similar incident where scores of students were hospitalized.

Following the death of a 31-year-old physician in Ondo State after returning from the United Kingdom, UK; the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has issued a new public warning on Lassa fever. In the advisory warning signed on the 9 March by the agency Director General, Jide Idris, NCDC reported that as of 2 March, Nigeria had recorded 535 confirmed cases out of which 98 were fetal across 14 states in year 2025 alone.

A recent study conducted in the United States of America has revealed that individuals who sleep too little or too much face significant health risks, including an increased chance of early death. Published in JAMA Network Open, the study found that those who do not get the recommended seven to nine hours of sleep per night have a 29% higher risk of premature death from any cause.

The World Stroke Organisation in collaboration with Stroke Action Nigeria, the Federal Medical Centre, Onitsha, the Federal Medical Centre, Asaba and the Asaba Specialist Hospital, commenced a four-day sensitisation training for medical and ancillary health workers in Anambra State, towards combating the rising incidents of stroke sickness in Nigeria. The training, tagged ‘Addressing the rising burden of stroke in Nigeria,’ with over 200 participants, including healthcare professionals and service providers is aimed at equipping them with the relevant skills in stroke prevention, early detection, and management.

A yet-to-be-identified disease has claimed the lives of about 50 people in northwest Democratic Republic of the Congo, DRC. On Monday, local authorities reported that over 943 cases of fever of unknown origin have been identified in Basankusu in the DRC’s Equateur Province since February 9, with 52 fatalities.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has introduced a new platform to provide cost-free cancer medicines for thousands of children in low- and middle-income countries, aiming to improve survival rates that lag far behind those in wealthier nations. As part of the initiative’s pilot phase, the first shipments of medicines have been delivered to Mongolia and Uzbekistan, with additional deliveries planned for Ecuador, Jordan, Nepal, and Zambia. This year, the program is expected to benefit approximately 5,000 children across at least 30 hospitals in these six countries.