As Nigeria battles one of its worst outbreaks of the disease, the Borno State Ministry of Health, in collaboration with the humanitarian medical organization Médecins Sans Frontières, has completed a large-scale vaccination campaign against diphtheria targeting children under 14 years in Maiduguri Metropolitan Council, a major epicenter of the outbreak. Nigeria has been grappling with a prolonged diphtheria crisis, with the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention reporting 65,759 suspected cases and 2,229 deaths...

The Kogi State has recorded a significant milestone in its health sector, with malaria prevalence dropping from 16 percent in 2021 to 8.9 percent in 2025, according to the latest National Malaria Indicator Survey (NMIS). The Kogi State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Abdulazeez Adams,  disclosed this in a statement over the weekend, stressing that the state has now moved from the “Moderate A” transmission category, previously ranging between 15 and 35 percent prevalence, to the...

…Over 56 Others Contracted With The Disease In Benue Meanwhile, a medical doctor at the Bingham University Teaching Hospital (BHUTH), Jos, Plateau, has died after contracting Lassa fever while attending to a patient diagnosed with the disease. The deceased, Dr. Salome Oboyi, a senior resident doctor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, died after battling the viral infection. Chief Medical Director of the Hospital, Professor Stephen Anzaku, who confirmed the death to journalists in...

The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has declared that it will resume a total and indefinite strike across the country from 12:00 a.m. on Monday, 12 January 2026, citing the Federal Government’s failure to implement agreed welfare demands within an earlier deadline. The announcement was made on Friday, following an Extraordinary National Executive Council (E-NEC) meeting held on January 2, 2026, and was shared on X by the association’s President, Dr. Mohammed Suleiman. In...

There is a possible statewide strike in 2026 by Nurses in Kaduna State over the persistent failure of health authorities to conduct promotion. The Chairman of the National Association of Nigerian Nurses and Midwives (NANNM), Kaduna State Council, Comrade Nurse Ishaku Yakubu, issued the threat in a New Year address, expressing growing frustration over what he described as deliberate neglect of nurses’ career progression by the Ministry of Health and some of its parastatals. He...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has confirmed 19,213 cases of measles and 153 deaths between January and November 2025. The confirmed cases, according to the measles situation report released on Tuesday, are 26,866 suspected cases reported across 507 Local Government Areas in all 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory.  The disease recorded a case fatality rate of 0.8 percent. Children aged 9 to 59 months were the most affected group,...