World Heart Day: CAPPA Urges FG, States To Adopt Strong Food, Tobacco Policies
As Nigeria joins the global community to mark World Heart Day 2025 tomorrow, Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA) has urged the federal and state governments to adopt robust healthy food and tobacco control policies to tackle the rising burden of cardiovascular and other non-communicable diseases (NCDs).
Financing Health Futures: Nigeria, Ghana, Uganda Turn to Tobacco and Telecom Taxes in Big Push Against Malaria
Abuja, Nigeria – African leaders, parliamentarians, health experts, and development partners have renewed their commitment to ending malaria by 2030, with a bold call...
Lagos: Nurses ReaffirmCommitment To Ethics
Lagos State government has restated its commitment to train and support nurses, not only to ensure quality healthcare to residents, but also to strengthen...
Experts Urge Local Anti Venom Production, As Nigeria Records 43,000 Snakebite CasesÂ
Toxinological Society of Nigeria, TSN, has called on the federal and state governments to invest in local anti-venom production and strengthen healthcare facilities to curb the rising burden of snakebite envenoming across the country.
Nigeria Steps Up Preparedness As Suspected Ebola Cases Test Negative
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has confirmed that two recent suspected cases of viral haemorrhagic fever in Abuja tested negative for both Ebola and Marburg viruses.