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Salaries, costs of running offices gulp 73% of Nigeria’s 2022 health budget

PAYMENT of workers' salaries, training of staff, cost of running offices and related matters will consume 73 per cent of the budget proposed for...
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Handwashing: How Nigeria squandered success before COVID-19 struck – UNICEF

NIGERIA blew away a chance to make at least 30 per cent of its citizens have access to handwashing facilities in 2019, months before...
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In two years, Nigeria lost nearly 9,000 doctors to UK, others

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THE National Association of Resident Doctors of Nigeria (NARD) has called off its two-month-old strike. The decision emanated from pressure from the Nigerian government to...
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I’m fine but undergoing ‘gruesome’ therapy, says Tinubu 

FORMER Lagos State Governor Bola Tinubu has said that he is healthy but undergoing 'gruesome' physiotherapy in London. He stated this on Friday when he...
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WHO raises survival hope for diabetes, cancer patients, approves new drugs

RESPITE may have come the way of people living with diabetes and cancer as the World Health Organization (WHO) has approved new drugs for...
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Doctors take crucial decision today as strike hits two months

THE National Executive Committee (NEC) of the National Association of Resident Doctors of Nigeria (NARD) will meet today to make crucial decisions on the...
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Nigeria joins Kenya, Mauritius, approves paternity leave for workers

THE Nigerian government has approved paternity leave for married male employees. The country joins Kenya, Mauritius, and a few other countries in Africa that have...
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