By Chinyere Amalu
HER one-year-old son firmly tied to her back, Hadiza dragged her two-year old daughter inside the house  where she lived in Kafrim-Liman, settlement in Ganjuwa Local government area of Bauchi State and slammed the door shut.
The 25-year old mother had just refused to let vaccinators immunise her children with the oral polio vaccine [...]

By Sola Ogundipe
FOLLOWING the closure of the Ilupeju branch of Sweet Sensation Confectioneries by the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration & Control, (NAFDAC), many fast food outlets in Lagos are taking measures to comply with standard sanitation and  environmental regulations.
A number of the outlets visited last week had stepped up effort to meet [...]

By Chioma Obinna
THE  Health Bill before the National Assembly would create a fund out of the consolidated revenue of the government to purchase health insurance for the less privileged.
Endorsing the Bill, Managing Director, Premium Health -  a leading Health Maintenance Organisation (HMO) – Dr. Ladi Okuboyejo  lamented the poor health indices in the country, but [...]

By Sola Ogundipe
THE call by Ministers of Health of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) for the passage of abortion laws all its member States including  Nigeria, has been received with mixed feelings.
The call which was contained in a communiqué issued after the First Extraordinary Assembly of ECOWAS Health Ministers held recently at [...]

By Sola Ogundipe
LAGOS State Governor,  Mr. Babatunde Fashola, has been called upon by the State branch of the Association of Community Pharmacists of Nigeria (ACPN) to put a check on activities of the Health Facility Monitoring and Accreditation Agency (HEFAMAA) under the Lagos State Health Reforms Law.
Fashola is also urged to critically appraise the legal [...]

By Sola Ogundipe
PRESIDENT Umar Yar’Adua, Vice President Goodluck Jonathan and  the 36 State  Governors are set to participate in the upcoming  Presidential Summit on Health  being coordinated by the Federal Ministry of Health.
The event with the theme  “Accepting Collective Responsibility for Improving Our Health in Nigeria,”  holds in Abuja on November 5-6, 2009.
A statement from [...]

THE dust is yet to settle over concerns raised by pharmacists under the aegis of the Phamaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN) over what is described as “defective appointment procedures” in sensitive regulatory agencies including the Pharmacists Council of Nigeria (PCN) and the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC).

Early this year, a Non Governmental Organization held a national summit on Violence Against Girls in Schools. As part of that event, girls from schools in various parts of the country and from primary through tertiary institutions converged on Abuja.

The G-16 Heads of Regulatory Agencies has given a thumbs-up to the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), for its leadership role in ensurimg high standard and good quality of drugs.

TOWARDS institutionalising cervical cancer prevention in the country, the Federal Ministry of Health in partnership with the Global Alliance for Vaccine and Immunisation (GAVI) is set to incorporate HPV vaccines Gardasil and Cervarix into the National Programme on Immunisation.