By Chioma Obinna The Federal Government has intensified efforts to strengthen Nigeria’s pharmaceutical industry, providing technical support to indigenous manufacturers as part of moves to position them for World Health Organisation, WHO, prequalification and improve national medicine security. The initiative, anchored by the National Institute of Pharmaceutical Research and Development, NIPRD, in collaboration with the […]

The Minister of State for Health and Social Welfare, Iziaq Adekunle Salako, has declared that no woman should die of cervical cancer, describing the disease as both preventable and treatable.

As the world marks World Immunisation Week 2026, fresh concerns have been raised over Nigeria’s growing number of unimmunised children, calling for urgent and coordinated action to close the gap.

As the world marks the 2026 World Malaria Day, Emzor Pharmaceutical Industries Limited has declared that scaling local drug production and investing in Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients, APIs, are critical to ending malaria in Nigeria, which still bears the heaviest global burden of the disease.

Across markets in Nigeria, shoppers’ decisions are made in seconds. A mother reaching for a packet of noodles, a bottle of cooking oil, and a loaf of bread, does not check the sodium levels, trans fats or sugar content.