In commemoration of the 2022 World Oral Health Day, a leading global toothpaste brand Pepsodent engaged 1million children in Nigeria on the importance of oral health...
According to United Nations for Child Mortality Education, 91, 250 children under the age of 5 die of malaria each year, 60% of people who visit...
The rabbit hole of uncertainty, confusion, and fear that pupils and their parents fell into in the dying days of March when the country was in...
We’ve got great news! The year 2016 was the last time a case of wild polio was reported in Nigeria, the final country on the 54-nation...
226 more persons have tested positive for coronavirus, bringing the total number of infection to 6401, with 1734 recoveries, while 192 others have died from the...
A new public health information campaign, launched by hygiene brand Dettol, is assessing and evaluating claims related to COVID-19, correct misinformation, challenge misperceptions, and debunk common...
Italy, South Africa, the United States – so much of the world is in quarantine (social distancing) to “flatten the curve” by reducing the spread of...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has issued guidelines on physical activity, sedentary behaviour and sleep for children under 5 years of age. Notable in the guidelines,...
Ebola, the virus which spread through some parts of Africa in 2014, has again surfaced in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), The Cable reports. Congo’s...
Ahmed Victor, the doctor who contacted Lassa fever after treating a 7-month-old baby has died from the disease, Punch reports. The director of the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Dr....
The director general of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has rescinded his appointment of Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe as “Goodwill Ambassador” for...
A rare disease called monkeypox has reportedly broken out in Bayelsa State. Monkeypox, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO), is similar to smallpox, but milder. According...
South African Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has condemned African presidents for seeking medical treatment outside the continent. The minister said this at a regional health dialogue organised...
Namibia with a population of about 2 million, has recorded 22,596 cases of malaria since the southern African country announced an outbreak in January, local media...
The World Health Assembly, the decision-making body of the World Health Organisation (WHO), has elected Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus of Ethiopia as the new Director-General of...
As part of the World Health Organisation (WHO)’s efforts to address the growing global resistance to antimicrobial medicines and promote research & development, on Monday, they published their...
An estimated 4.4 per cent of the global population suffers from depression, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported on Thursday. The report added that no fewer than...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Wednesday said that it was pushing for higher taxes and prices on tobacco to reduce its consumption in Africa. The...
Talk show Host, Osasu Igbinedion is out with a new episode of ‘The Osasu Show’, click here for past episodes featured on BN. This time, she sits...
Ugandan government has warned that parents who failed to take their children for compulsory vaccinations would be prosecuted. A statement released on Monday in Kampala said...
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