With more than one in seven people globally living with a mental disorder, mental illness has officially become the world’s leading cause of disability

….Bauchi, Ondo, Taraba, Edo, Benue account for 84% of infections By Chioma Obinna ABUJA — Nigeria’s Lassa fever outbreak has claimed 204 lives in 2026, as the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, NCDC, warned that delayed hospital visits, poor health-seeking behaviour and increasing infections among healthcare workers were worsening the disease burden across […]

By Ibekwe Nnamdi Chimdi “He Was Searching For Diamonds in distant lands, while standing on acres of diamonds in his own backyard.” – Russell Conwell, Acres of DiamondsNigeria stands today at the centre of a troubling paradox: while millions of its citizens desperately seek exits abroad, foreigners continue arriving to build profitable enterprises within the […]

By Chioma Obinna President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Friday commissioned a massive Lagos Cold and Dry Storage Hub expected to serve more than 90 million Nigerians by 2035, marking a major overhaul of the country’s vaccine distribution system. The facility, commissioned at the Federal Central Medical Stores, Oshodi, Lagos, and described as the first of […]

Health journalists in Lagos have intensified calls for improved coordination in health reporting, warning that preventable maternal and child deaths will persist unless information gaps and system inefficiencies in the health sector are urgently addressed.