Latest Nigeria health news and updates
With barely any progress recorded in more than two decades, advocates have raised alarm over the “unacceptable” stagnation in global efforts to protect women and girls from violence ahead of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women and Girls, marked on November 25. Despite global advocacy and countless policy commitments, 1 in…
Lagos State has unveiled its first unified directory of mental-health service providers, a move the government says will streamline access to credible care and improve coordination within the State’s mental-health system. The platform, known as the Lagos Community of Mental Health Providers (LCP) Directory, was launched yesterday at the Ministry of Health, Alausa, Ikeja, under…
The World Health Organization (WHO) has raised alarm over drastic cuts in global health funding, warning that the sharp decline could severely disrupt essential health services, particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). In a new guidance document released in Geneva on Monday, titled “Responding to the Health Financing Emergency: Immediate Measures and Longer-term Shifts,”…
…Death rates 94 times higher than in developed countries A new global report has raised alarm over the devastating impact of air pollution on children, revealing that youngsters in poorer countries are dying at rates 94 times higher than those in wealthier nations. The report, titled “Structural Dependencies Perpetuate Disproportionate Childhood Health Burden from Air…
…As state marks International Adolescent health week with youth outreach The Lagos State Government has renewed its call for stronger support for adolescent wellbeing, with emphasis on both mental and physical health, as it marked the 2025 International Adolescent Health Week with a youth outreach at the Omolade Okoya Thomas Indoor Sports Hall, Teslim Balogun…
Drug abuse among Nigerian youths has reached epidemic levels, with one in every seven Nigerians between ages 15 and 64 identified as a drug user, nearly three times the global average. Experts say the situation, if unchecked, could cripple the nation’s future workforce, security, and productivity. The revelation, drawn from the 2018 National Drug Use…
The Federal Government has raised concerns over Nigeria’s “triple burden” of malnutrition, comprising undernutrition, overnutrition, and micronutrient deficiencies, also known as “hidden hunger.” The Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Ms. Daju Kachollom, made this known on Thursday in Abuja at the Nigeria Health Watch Roundtable, themed “Fortifying Nigeria’s Future: Strengthening Nutrition…
As the world marked International Safe Abortion Day on September 28, Nigerian youth advocates joined their counterparts across the globe to demand stronger investment in sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), insisting that young people must no longer be left on the margins of health policy conversations. In Nigeria, the push is being championed…
The Sector-Wide Approach (SWAp) has said that the country is embarking on a health sector reform that experts say could redefine the country’s path toward self-reliance in healthcare and wider development. Dr Muntaqa Umar-Sadiq, National Coordinator of the SWAp Coordination Office, said this on Thursday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)…
The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Lagos State chapter, has accused the State Treasury Office (STO) of introducing a “crisis-prone” revised medical salary scale that allegedly led to “unfair, wicked, and unacceptable” deductions from doctors’ July 2025 salaries. In a statement signed on Sunday by its chairman, Dr. Saheed Babajide Kehinde, the association said the deductions…