By Olasunkanmi Akoni THE Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency, LASEPA, has sealed at least 619 facilities, including Mosques, Churches, hotels, among others for various environmental infractions in 2024. General Manager of LASEPA, Dr Babatunde Ajayi, disclosed this during a media interactive session in Ikeja, Lagos. Ajayi revealed that noise pollution accounted for 528 of the…
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has alerted Nigerians, including healthcare providers, about a counterfeit cancer treatment drug, Phesgo 600mg/600mg/10ml, labelled with batch number C5290S20. This notification is outlined in a public alert (No. 051/2024) available on the agency’s website. NAFDAC reported that the Marketing Authorisation Holder (MAH), Roche, received…
By Peter Dada Doctors in Ondo State under the Association of Resident Doctors, University of Medical Sciences Teaching Hospital Ondo chapter, on Tuesday, began an indefinite strike over alleged poor working conditions and welfare packages. The resident doctors had on Monday staged a protest against the management of the state-owned teaching hospital, accusing it of…
By Makua Ubanagu The National Hospital Abuja has appealed to the public for assistance in identifying a middle-aged man who was brought to its Trauma ICU on December 21, 2024, as an unidentified patient. According to a statement on Sunday via X by the hospital’s spokesperson, Dr. Tayo Haastrup, the patient was reportedly involved in…
By Lara Adejoro The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control announced that it destroyed over ₦120bn worth of seized products between July and December 2024 across the six geopolitical zones and the Federal Capital Territory. The agency also reassured Nigerians that measures are in place to safeguard their health before, during, and…
The Ahmadu Bello University Teaching University (ABUTH) Zaria is set to commence kidney transplant surgeries in 2025 towards bringing relief to patients with kidney failure and reversing medical tourism. Prof. Ahmed Umdagas, Chief Medical Director of the hospital, made this known in an interview with Newsmen on Sunday in Zaria. Umdagas said the Urology Centre…
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has issued a comprehensive public advisory on Lassa fever, warning that it remained a significant public health threat. Dr Jide Idris, NCDC’s Director General, revealed the concerning trend to newsmen on Monday in Abuja, urging Nigerians to adopt preventive measures as cases continue to rise during…
By Chioma Obinna The Vice President, Senator Kashim Shettima had on the 2024 World Toilet Day launched the revised Clean Nigeria Campaign, CNC, Strategic Plan to eradicate open defecation by 2030, with nearly 48 million Nigerians still practicing open defecation. The CNC Strategic Plan aims to declare all 774 local government areas open defecation-free by…
By Clifford Ndujihe, Politics Editor The Federal Government and 21 of the 36 states of the country have allocated N3.846 trillion of their 2025 budgets to healthcare. The figure represents a miserly 6.02 per cent of the N63.898 trillion they proposed to spend next year. This is a far cry from the World Health Organisation,…
By Gbenga Odogun As part of its efforts to achieve universal health coverage, the Kogi State Government said it has so far enrolled 167,000 persons in its health insurance scheme. The Executive Secretary of the state Health Insurance Agency, Adekunle Aledare, disclosed this on Monday in Lokoja, the state capital, shortly after defending the agency’s…
