…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,...

The Osun State Agency for the Control of AIDS (OSUNSACA) has revealed that 23,693 people are presently living with HIV/AIDS in the state. In a press release by the state Technical Officer, Damien Foundation, Dr. Kehinde Ajayi, the commemoration of 2025 World AIDS Day that, 24,874 people are currently receiving treatment in the state as of September 30, 2025. The figure is based on Nigeria’s 2024 spectrum HIV estimate for Osun State _PLHIV_2025 SHEET4), The...

The Federal Government has noted that Northwest states are not excluded from its ongoing Kidney Dialysis Subsidy Scheme. The clarification follows media suggestions to the contrary. The subsidy has been in effect since earlier in the year. “Under the scheme, the cost of a dialysis session has been reduced from ₦50,000 to ₦12,000,” Alaba Balogun, Deputy Director and Head of Information and Public Relations at the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, confirmed in a...