The Federal Executive Council, FEC, has approved a draft bill for the provision of legal framework for the Centre for Disease Control And Prevention in the country
President Muhammadu Buhari has reiterated his administration’s commitment to prioritize healthcare delivery especially to people in rural areas and the vulnerable population of the society, such as women, and children under the age of 5.
The federal government has denied reports that ‘plastic rice’ was being sold in the country, days after the Nigerian Customs Service said it has confiscated 2.5 tonnes of suspected plastic rice.
A new research has discovered that the different health financing mechanism being used to finance health services in Nigeria are largely inefficient and could hamper effort to provide access to health care for all Nigerians.
Nigeria’s Minister of Health, Isaac Adewole, has maintained his stance that tobacco companies should pay more in taxes as a way of discouraging the habit of smoking by majority of Nigerians.
