A woman in South Africa has told the BBC how she was sterilised without her consent after she gave birth at the age of 17, and only learned about it 11 years later when she tried to have another child. Bongekile Msibi was among 48 women sterilised without consent at state hospitals, the Commission for […]

Coronavirus: The burial was over and done in five minutes. Just enough time for the priest to utter a prayer over the body of the elderly woman, in the presence of one relative and two undertakers. The growing coronavirus outbreak in Italy leaves little room for decorum, and Zorlesco, a northern town of 1,700 residents […]

I believe that I am not alone in feeling distressed about the situation of healthcare in Nigeria. Everywhere you look, the   problems stare you in the face. In the public health care space, you face poor infrastructure, old or inoperative equipment and generally poor attitude. Even skill and competency levels are often suspect. If you have taken a seriously ill patient to our public health facilities – be they primary, secondary or tertiary institutions, you will have known that many more people are healed by faith in Nigeria than by medical care.

Parents of new babies who also could not pay their medical bills in the hospital were made to deposit their belongings such as motorcycles and generating sets until they had the means to pay

Patients at the National Orthopaedic Hospital, Enugu State, have called for help from the Federal government, urging it to respond to the demands of the health workers under the aegis of the Joint Health Sector Unions and Assembly of Healthcare Professionals, JOHESU who have been on strike to press home their call for better working environment.

ENUGU- The Enugu Maximum Security Prison, built in 1915 for 638 inmates, now houses 1,800 inmates.

Luck smiled broadly on a 10-month-old baby at the venue of the on-going Kogi State Civil Service Appeals Committee sitting near the Government House, Lokoja, when Governor Yahaya Bello came across him, strapped to the mother’s chest.

Is cancer treatment a mirage in Nigeria? This is the million naira question on the lips of health watchers in the country in the wake of the complete collapse of cancer treatment services nationwide.

The Vice-President of the Commonwealth Medical Association, Dr. Osahon Enabulele has condemned the sacking of 16,000 resident doctors by the Federal Government, describing the decision as ‘ill-advised labour dispute management approach’.

Ebola has likely killed five people in Guinea after re-emerging in the country’s south, health authorities said Tuesday, as Liberia announced it was closing their shared border to guard against the spread of the virus.

By a Levinus Nwabughiogu ABUJA –  Nigeria’s first test tube baby, Miss. Hannatu Kupchi has been given admission into a Hungarian university to study medicine. This came 17 years after Kupchi was born at Nisa Premier Hospital in Abuja, precisely on February 11 1998. Speaking at a brief ceremony to mark his send forth in […]

By Sola Ogundipe Residents of Lagos and environs have been urged to ignore a rumoured re-emergence of the dreaded Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, in Lagos. The rumour, which began trending on the social media late on the night of Friday April 10, 2015, threw a wide section of the populace into wild panic even as […]

Following its recent partnership with the African Union (AU) Commission to support the fight against Ebola in West Africa, telecoms operator, Airtel Nigeria, has announced the 7979 SMS short-code, to help raise funds and drive awareness for the initiative.

October and November are the veg special months. October 1st kicks off the annual Vegetarian month. In between comes the World Food Day on October 16th – which was the topic of last week’s column.

In case you missed it: World Food Day is celebrated every year around the world on 16 October to comemmorate the founding date of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation in 1945.