The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has over 1,116,677 children to be immunized against polio in 2025. Flagging in off the campaign held in the Palace of Sarki Jiwa, HRH Alj Idris Musa over the weekend in Abuja, the Mandate Secretary of the Health Services and Environment Secretariat, Dr. Adedolapo Fasawe, led the charge, called on all residents to support the National Immunization Plus Days (NIPDs) holding from May 4 to 10, 2025. The Mandate...
The State Ministry of Health has recorded 91 suspected cases of meningitis in eleven local government areas from January 2025 to date. The State Epidemiologist in the state ministry of health, Doctor Kadabiyu Jones, who disclosed this, attributed the scourge to excessive heat in the state. He said the affected local government areas are Fufore, Hong, Mayo-Belwa, Michika, Numan, Song, Mubi North, Mubi South, Yola North, Yola South, and Gombi. Doctor Jones revealed that the...
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is partnering with the Gombe State Government to establish a Sexual Assault Referral Centre (SARC) at the Gombe State Specialist Hospital. The centre, expected to be fully operational by May 2025, aims to strengthen the state’s response to sexual and gender-based violence and enhance child protection systems. Dr. Nuzhat Rafique, Chief of UNICEF’s Bauchi Field Office, during an inspection visit to the facility, emphasized that the centre would provide...
The Nasarawa State Ministry of Health has confirmed an outbreak of measles in the Rukubi community of Doma Local Government Area. Governor Abdullahi Sule, represented by his deputy, Dr. Emmanuel Akabe, announced this on Tuesday during a critical stakeholders’ engagement held in Lafia. During this engagement, the state government reiterated its commitment to tackling childhood killer diseases such as measles and rubella. Governor Abdullahi Sule emphasized the urgent need for the new vaccine campaign, saying...
The Kano State Government has announced plans to vaccinate over 4.1 million children against polio in a statewide campaign scheduled for April 24 to 30, 2025. Speaking at the event, the Director General of the Kano State Primary Health Care Management Board, Dr. Nasiru Mahmoud made the disclosure during a media dialogue on polio and routine immunization held in Kano on Tuesday. Represented by the State Immunization Officer, Hajiya Sa’adatu Ibrahim said the campaign is...
…Facility equipped by Pastor Enoch and Folu Adeboye’s Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Biodun Oyebanji has inaugurated a state-of-the-art dialysis Centre at the Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital to provide cutting-edge kidney treatment and boost the health status of residents. While Commissioning the dialysis Centre which was equipped by Pastor Enoch and Folu Adeboye’s, His Love Foundation, Governor Oyebanji said the Centre is a testament to the remarkable outcomes that can be achieved when faith- based...
The Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Prof. Muhammad Ali Pate, has said no fewer than 16,000 medical doctors left Nigeria to practice abroad in the last five to seven years. Pate, disclosed this on Tuesday in Abuja during the annual capacity-building workshop of the Association of Medical Councils of Africa (AMCOA), and hosted by the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN) with the themed “Integrated Healthcare Regulation and Leadership in Building Resilient Health Systems”. The minister said...
The Adamawa State Government has confirmed that the outbreak of rabies in the state has claimed the lives of three people. Rabies is a deadly virus which can be found mostly in dogs and cats spread to humans from the Saliva of an infected dog or cat and is spread as a result from the bitten animals. The Director Veterinary Services in the Adamawa Ministry of Livestock and Aquaculture Development Dr. Bartholomeus Nyalas who disclosed...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has announced that between January and March 2025 the country has recorded 3,465 suspected cases of Lassa fever, with 645 confirmed infections and 118 deaths. The Director-General of centre, Dr Jide Idris who disclosed on Sunday, said that the outbreak had affected 91 local government areas across 33 states, resulting in a Case Fatality Rate (CFR) of 18.3 per cent. He added that 20 healthcare workers...
The Deputy Speaker Adamawa State House of Assembly and member representing Jada/Mbulo constituency Hon. Muhammad Buba Jijjiwa, has announced the death of seven persons following an outbreak of diarrhea and vomiting in his constituency, noted that it continue to pose threat to public health. The lawmaker revealed this under matters of urgent public importance raised on the floor of house during plenary on Wednesday, called on the state government and other relevant agencies to take...
