The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says it is critical to continue teaching girls and women about the harmful effects of female genital mutilation (FGM) as the globe observed the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Girl Genital Mutilation on Read more…
What are the benefits of Okra water? Many people have been asking this question recently, and a series of speculations and arguments have been raised about it due to curiosity. Naija News has observed that netizens have recently speculated on Read more…
On the 24th of April 2024, a tragic and unexpected accident led to the death of a four year old student of BrickHall Schools located in the Cadastral Zone B11, Kaura in Abuja. The child, identified as Miguel Ovoke was Read more…
Médecins Sans Frontières said it recorded 1,250 admissions of children suffering from hunger and malnutrition in its facility in Maiduguri, Borno State. MSF said the 1,250 children admitted in April, was 60 percent higher than the previous year 2023. Nigeria’s Read more…
Former presidential aide, Doyin Okupe, has commended President Bola Tinubu for signing an Executive Order that delisted drugs raw materials from being charged import duty. Okupe said the policy would help to lower the costs of drugs locally. He said Read more…
Akwa-Ibom State Governor, Umo Eno, has launched a health insurance agency for the state workers and citizens. On Tuesday, Governor Umo also inaugurated a 15-member board for the health insurance agency. Speaking during the inauguration, Unmo said his administration is Read more…
Director-General of the National Agency For Food, Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Professor Mojisola Adeyeye, has said at no time in her six years as DG did she feel relieved like Tinubu’s administration. Professor Adeyeye said the perennial high cost Read more…
Former Governor of Abia State, Okezie Ikpeazu, has called on the federal government to adopt geriatric outreach programmes to elevate the health status of the citizens. Okezie Ikpeazu made the call on Wednesday in his health series write-up on how Read more…
The federal government on Wednesday commissioned Sustainable Development Multipurpose Hospital in line with its commitment to actualizing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) on health for all citizens. The Senior Special Assistant to the President on SDGs, Princess Adejoke Orelope-Adefulire, who Read more…
A professor of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the University of Ibadan, Victor Ifeolu Akinmoladun has declared that pro-inflammatory diets such as sugary drinks, refined carbohydrates, processed meats, fried foods including persistent inflammation are the major causes of oral cancer. Read more…