With Nigeria accounting for 77 per cent of cases of poliomyelitis, foremost entrepreneur, Aliko Dangote has vowed that he would deploy all in his power to partner governments at all levels to stem the scourge. Speaking against the background of collabo...
Dangote, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, have expressed optimism towards polio eradication in the next three years from Kano State. Alhaji Aliko Dangote, the Founder of the Dangote Foundation, stated this in Kano on Monday, while signing a Memorandu...
Prof. John Idoko, the Director-General, National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA), has reiterated the need for Nigeria and stakeholders to work towards eradication of AIDS related deaths in the fight against the virus. Idoko said this in Abuja on ...
It began as a small boil in the middle of his forehead in 2008; painful though it was, there was nothing particularly extra-ordinary about it. So, when it was ripe and pregnant with pus, Mal Adamu Muhammed, 37, decided to prick it open. Immediately, th...
The president, Spinal Bifida and Hydrocephalus Care Foundation, Mrs Lawani Dubumi, has disclosed that about 12,000 pregnancies by Nigerian women are predisposed to birth defects. Speaking to newsmen during the first World Spinal Bifid...
Each year on November 14, the International Diabetes Federation (IDF), seeks to promote the theme of ‘education and prevention’ on World Diabetes Day. The campaign slogan for 2012 is, ‘Diabetes: protect our future’ and foc...
The Emir of Ningi, Alhaji Yunusa Danyaya, on Saturday suggested that Polio Immunisation Plus Days should be continuous to achieve positive results in the polio eradication campaign. Danyaya made the suggestion at the launch of the November rounds...
The FCT Minister, Sen. Bala Mohammed, on Saturday urged the six area councils in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) to build primary health care institutions to support secondary healthcare in the area. Mohammed gave the advice at the launch of the ``...
Dr Lois Obiekezie, a paediatrician in Alaba Ojo, Lagos State, said on Saturday that premature babies were not medically disadvantaged. Obiekezie told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that premature babies were only under-weight with weights rangi...
Prof. Akin Osibogun, Chief Medical Director, Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), has called on philanthropists to assist the hospital to rebuild the burnt AIDS Prevention Initiative Clinic (APIN). Osibogun told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) o...
President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday said that boosting the availability and affordability of life-saving drugs nationwide was one of the strategic primary objectives of the federal government in achieving significant improvements in national healthca...
Stakeholders of the Zamfara Lead Poisoning Group, in collaboration with Medecins Sans Frontiers/Doctors Without Borders, have said that without immediate government intervention, more children are at risks of lead poisoning in Zamfara State. In a...
The Minister of Health, Prof. Oyebuchi Chukwu has again harped on the need for the private sector contribution to the realisation of the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) by the year 2015. Chukwu said this on Saturday in Abuja at the 16th Annual ...
The Federal Government with Kano State Government has inaugurated an ultra-modern Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis treatment centre in Kano, a statement said. The statement was issued by Malam Halilu Dantiye, the Director of Press and Public Relations...
The Katsina State government has set December 2012 as deadline to halt the transmission of poliomyelitis in the state. Commissioner forHealth, Alhaji Garba Yammama,told LEADERSHIP WEEKEND that Katsina still leads in poliomyelitis infection in the count...