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The World Health Organisation (WHO) has raised the alarm over a looming shortage of live-saving anti-retroviral (ARV) HIV drugs in eight countries including Nigeria and Kenya. This follows the US government’s recent decision to pause foreign aid. US President Donald Trump announced the freeze on his first day in office in January as part of a review into government spending. "Disruptions to HIV programmes could undo 20 years of progress," WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned. According to Ghebreyesus the development could also lead to over 10 million additional cases of HIV and three million HIV-related deaths, noting this was "more than triple the number of deaths last year".

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has reported a drop in new Lassa fever cases for Epidemiological Week 9 (February 24 – March 2, 2025). Despite this, the fatality rate remains high at 18.7%, with 100 deaths recorded so far this year. According to the NCDC’s latest report, 29 new cases were confirmed in nine states, a significant decrease from the 54 cases reported in the previous week. The affected states are Ondo, Bauchi, Edo, Taraba, Ebonyi, Plateau, Cross River, Nasarawa, and Enugu. Most confirmed cases came from three states: Ondo (31%), Bauchi (24%), and Edo (17%), highlighting these areas as the outbreak's epicentre.

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.