Health and Environment

By Alan Thomas Kennedy-Asser, University of Bristol; Dann Mitchell, University of Bristol, and Eunice Lo, University of Bristol THIS year, even before the northern hemisphere...

THE World Health Organization (WHO) has said the tobacco industry is flourishing in Africa due to regulatory lapses. The agency said while the number of...

THE United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) has set a new four-year target for Nigeria. The target includes supporting Nigerian health care systems for children and...

By Alfred Ajayi Several months after The ICIR reported how Anambra residents were caught in a devastating flood in this report The harrowing tales...

THE National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has destroyed fake, substandard goods and products worth over N4.2 billion in Awka, the...

HEALTH workers in federal tertiary hospitals in Nigeria have downed tools effective today, Thursday, May 25. The workers, under the aegis of Joint Health Sector...

In a few days, President Muhammad Buhari’s eight years tenure will be over. But the president is yet to end pollution and depollute areas affected...

WORLD leaders and leading public health experts have signed a declaration seeking an end to cervical cancer. The declaration was formally launched in Geneva on...

THE United Nations (UN) World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) says the climate-related disasters that occurred in the last 50 years killed over 2 million people...