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Nigeria risks losing about one million of its citizens to HIV if its government does not take control of the full sponsorship of the treatment, an official has said.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned that gonorrhoea, a common sexually-transmitted infection, is becoming impossible to treat.

An outbreak of Lassa fever in Federal Government Girls’ College, Lantang, Plateau State, has claimed the life of a student.

The Nigeria Society of Neonatal Medicine (NISONM), a sub-specialty group of paediatricians, on Thursday described infant mortality as one of the Nigeria’s worst health challenges.

The Federal Government will soon commence the mass vaccination of sheep and goats across the country to protect them against the Peste des Petits Ruminants (PPR) disease.

A patient has been quarantined at the Yobe State Specialist hospital, Damaturu, after showing symptoms of the dreaded Lassa fever.