Health

In the aftermath of the January 2018 outbreak of Lassa fever in Nigeria, PATRICK EGWU travelled to Ebonyi State, one of the states with high incidence of the disease, and reports how the N250 million virology centre in the state –…
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 LONDON seems to be a place of choice for prominent Nigerians to die. In the past three years, death of five foremost Nigerians took place in London hospitals where they were receiving treatment before their passing. Last week…
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An increasing number of Nigerians are embracing the controversial ketogenic diet. This diet has shown dramatic weight loss but its long-term health effect on dieters is highly open to question. The keto diet is based on unproven…
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Asiya Abubakar’s dream took her beyond her little village in Dawakin Kudu , in one of the 44 local government areas that make up Kano State. She loved western education and always wanted to speak the English language and one day become a…
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Despite the multibillion-naira interventions of the Federal Government to curb the rising rate of maternal and Infant mortality in the country, women and children still die daily in the rural areas of the country due to inaccessible and…
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In a lot of campaigns against the handing out of girls to full-grown men in marriage, there is huge talk about how the education of the child brides is impeded, or the health hazards of of an unready female body having to stomach…
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Safe drinking water is a luxury in Nigeria and only a negligible percentage of the population has access to this luxury. Budgeting for clean and safe drinking water provision has been abysmal over the years. As a result, 57 million…
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In Dagbaja, a predominantly farming community with a population of over 5,000  people in Oriade Local Government Area of Osun state, a healthcare facility in need of urgent rehabilitation has been left in ruins and can only offer…
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The Federal Government has cut funding for a nutritional programme designed to save thousands of lives among an estimated 2.5 million children suffering from severe acute malnutrition. Last year, the Federal Government earmarked N1.2…
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By Kikiope Oluwarore In our previous articles, we thoroughly discussed the dire issues of unhealthy abattoirs in the country, using the Bodija Abattoir in Ibadan as a case study. Here, we elucidate on their poor environmental state and…
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