A new research suggests that people who drink coffee have a lower risk of dying from a host of causes, including heart disease, stroke and liver disease. The study adds that it is unclear whether the health boost is down to the brew itself.

Information reaching vigil360 indicates that the auditor of National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), Zakari Mohammed Sada, has been kidnapped by gunmen along the Kaduna-Abuja highway.

The Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Primary Health Care Development Board says it is targeting 750,000 children for immunisation in the July Sub National Vaccination Plus Day in the territory.

A new study of more than 14,000 people has shown that those who received meningitis vaccine in New Zealand had a reduced chance of contracting gonorrhea compared with unvaccinated people.

The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has commenced a surgical intervention scheme for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the IDP camps at Bama, Dalori and Banki, all in Borno State, the NAF Directorate of Public Relations and Information (DOPRI).

The World Health Organization

The World Health Organization has declared that oral sex is producing dangerous gonorrhoea and a decline in condom use is helping it to spread.