The Sokoto State Government has confirmed that the outbreak of cerebrospinal meningitis in parts of the state has claimed the lives of 33 children. The Commissioner for Health, Dr. Faruk Abubakar, spoke on Wednesday during an advocacy meeting with district heads on Safety and Antimicrobial Resistance of Mass Administration of Azithromycin in Children (SARMAAN) and Maternal and Neonatal Tetanus Elimination (MNTE). According to the commissioner, 256 suspected cases have been recorded across eight local government...

Stakeholders in Plateau State said the most effective path towards eliminating malaria and reducing preventable deaths is through collaboration among government, development partners and local communities. This is their submission to a symposium held in Jos on Saturday to commemorate World Malaria Day, with the theme “Driven to End Malaria: Now We Can. Now We Must” and the slogan “Let’s Do It.” The event was organized to assess progress in malaria control in Plateau State...

On March 9, 2026, the Modibbo Adama University Teaching Hospital, Yola, Northeast Nigeria, successfully separated another pair of conjoined twins, making it the sixth time since the establishment of the federal government health facility. The separated twins, Hassan and Hussain, are from the family of Shuaibu Jibrin of Yelwa village in Bali Local Government Area of Taraba State. The mother of the separated conjoined twins died a day after the surgical operation, however, the twins...

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...