Health

The Management of the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH), Ilorin has given a permanent employment opportunity to the couple whose conjoined twins ...

Dr Ifedayo Adetifa, Director General (DG), Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC), says a national multisectoral Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) for ...

The National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) says it is mapping out strategies to ensure that 83 million vulnerable Nigerians have easy access to ...

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has again warned Nigerians to desist from the habit of adding chemicals ...

The Federal Neuro-psychiatric Hospital, Yaba, has raised the alarm over the growing number of abandoned mental health patients in the hospital as over ...

The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) says pressure from some parents on their children to make money contributes ...

The Association of Sign Language Interpreters of Nigeria (ASLIN), Kwara Chapter, has advocated integration of sign language into medical curriculum and engaging sign ...

A renowned pharmacist, Abimbola Adebakin, has urged pharmacists and pharmacy students to explore other areas of Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in their service ...

Dr Martin Adejo, a medical expert, has attributed grey hair in people to genetic, stress, disease and some vitamin deficiencies. He said that ...

With over 1.9 million people living with the Human Immune Virus (HIV) in Nigeria, stakeholders have said that the wide use of HIV ...

The Lagos State Government has begun publishing  details of convicted sex offenders as part of measures to check sexual violence and create public ...

The Institute of Human Virology Nigeria (IHVN) has advised the Federal Government to convert the COVID-19 pandemic isolations centres across the country to ...

The Managing Director, Defence Health Maintenance Limited (DHML), retired Rear. Adm. Azeez Afolayan has called on retired military personnel to properly enroll in ...

A Mental Health Advocate and Coach, Dr Maymunah Kadiri, has dispelled the myth that mental illness has spiritual undertone, adding that the sickness ...

Prof. Abubakar Panti, an obstetrician and gynaecologist, has called for urgent steps, such as a legislation, to address the spiraling population size of ...

The National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA) says that no fewer than 1.7 million patients accessed HIV/AIDs treatment in the south-East ...

Prof. Obiageli Nnodu, the Director, Centre of Excellence for Sickle Cell Disease Research and Training (CESRTA), has called on the Federal Government and ...

Project Pink Blue (PPB), a Non-Governmental Organisation championing the care for cancer patients on Tuesday 22, premiered a movie on plight of cancer ...

President Muhammadu Buhari, today Friday in Brussels, Belgium, welcomed the designation of Nigeria as one of the six countries in Africa designated as ...

Save the Children International (SCI) Nigeria, today Wednesday called on policy makers to take concrete steps to protect children with disabilities. Mercy Gichuhi, ...

The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, an international financing and partnership organisation says Nigeria is expected to receive 72 ambulances ...

A Professor of Surgery at the University of Ilorin, Peter Oladapo Adeoye, has called for the establishment of more radiotherapy and nuclear medicine ...

As part of efforts to reduce maternal mortality in Nigeria, a Non Governmental Organization (NGO) operating under the aegis of ‘Delouse Rural and ...

AIDS Health Care Foundation (AHF), a Non-governmental Organisation, says it would introduce condom emojis across all social media platforms, to promote safer sex ...

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) says it has secured the conviction of one Friday Ogbodo, a manufacturer ...

Nigeria has only 75 cardio-thoracic surgeons to a population of about 200 million people. Speaking with the Nigerian Tribune in Ilorin on Tuesday, ...

Just as the breast cancer alert has become a sort of mantra for women all over the world, so should the call for ...

National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has called for more support and funding for herbal medicine. This is contained ...

The Kwara State Commissioner for Environment, Hon. Abosede Olaitan Buraimoh, has decried lack of compliance in the monthly environmental sanitation exercise on the ...

Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has appointed retired Air Vice Marshal Ishaq Balogun to head five-person enforcement committee to sanitise the indiscriminate disposal ...

THE Presidential Steering Committee of COVID-19 has deactivated passports of about 200 COVID-19 test defaulters after discovering fake PCR tests and vaccination cards. ...

The Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu has expressed concern over lack of adequate attention to mental health in Nigeria and Africa said “Mental ...

In its bid to advocate for free sanitary pads and promote hygienic menstrual periods for young girls in the country, a firm, AHF ...

A 25 year old woman, Abdullateef Amina, who recently gave birth to triplets at a public Cottage Hospital, Ede, in Osun State, has ...

The Management of the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital has warned relatives of the patients brought to the hospital for medical treatment to ...

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, (NAFDAC) has warned Nigerian men against using performance-enhancing substances, known as “aphrodisiac”, in ...

THE Nigerian Health and Education sectors will continue to witness incessant strikes unless the economy of the nation improves, Senator Sadiq Umar, Deputy ...

The Kwara State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps has arrested 47 years old security guard, Jacob Obomerelu over how ...

The people of Budo-oke/Ballah/ Eyenkorin in Asa Local Government Area of Kwara State has lauded President Muhammadu Buhari and Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq for ...

Nigeria’s Minister of Aviation, Sen. Hadi Sirika has disclosed that in reciprocation to the travel ban placed on Nigeria over the new covid-19 ...

One hundred bed space Hospital for Women and Children is ready for commissioning tomorrow, Monday 13th of December by His Excellency the Executive ...

The Federal Government has said that the expired COVID -19 Vaccine had been withdrawn and will be destroyed accordingly by the National Agency ...

Kwara state Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq on Tuesday reassured Kwarans of his administration’s focus on using available resources and workable partnerships to bring quality ...

The Kwara State Government has tasked the residents of the state to shun open defecation as it poses big threat to human health. ...

The attention of the Kwara State Government has been drawn to some positions on the ongoing reforms in the public health laboratory services ...

The Kwara State Government has reaffirmed its commitment to improved and quality healthcare service delivery in the state. The Executive Secretary, Kwara State ...

Kwara State Government has urged the Members of the National Association of Government General Medical and Dental Practitioners (NAGGMDP), Kwara branch to suspend ...

Kwara State Government has commended the commitment of health partners in the State to the success of the Malaria Intervention Programme of Governor ...

The Kwara State Government and the National Malaria Elimination Programme have been commended for their commitment to quality health care services to the ...

In commemorating the 2021 international Nurses Week, the leadership of the National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives has asked government and policy ...

One Mr. Mumini of Ogidi Area in Ilorin, kwara state capital has been sentenced to two month in prison or pay a fine ...

Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has commended President Muhammadu Buhari for approving Kwara as the host state for the federal neuropsychiatric hospital for ...

The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ilorin, Prof. Sulyman Age Abdulkareem, has congratulated the newly appointed Director-General of the National Center for Disease ...

The Executive Secretary of the Kwara Health Insurance Agency, Dr Olubunmi Jetawo-Winter has disclosed that the agency under her headship has registered about ...

The Kwara State Government on Thursday 2nd of September, reiterated its commitment to quality healthcare services for the people of the state says ...

Kwara state Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, APC Governors’ Forum and World Health Organization on Thursday 26th of August, made case for improved funding for ...

The Kwara State environmental protection agency, has warned the people of the State against environmental hazard which can cause cholera epidemic in the ...

Kwara state government on Thursday 15th of July, 2021 presented cash as gift to selected eighty beneficiaries among People Living With HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) ...

A business mogul and Chief Executive Officer of BUA Group of company, Abdulsamad Rabiu on Monday 6th of July commended Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq ...

By Usman Aliyu One of the major challenges of life in rural communities in developing countries such as Nigeria is lack of access ...