R&D Health

The World Food Programme together with its partner, INTERSOS, has distributed fuel-efficient stoves to 7,340 displaced families receiving WFP food assistance in the town of Banki, Nigeria’s Borno State.

NiMet made this known in its Weather Outlook by its Central Forecast Office in Abuja on Tuesday.

The Kano State Government says it has recorded 400 suspected cases of acute watery diarrhea with 50 confirmed cases of cholera across the 33 local government areas of the state in the last seven months.

The General Manager, Corporate Affairs, FAAN, Henrietta Yakubu, made the disclosure in a statement on Tuesday in Lagos.

The government, through a statement by the Ministry of Industries, Commerce, Cooperatives and Empowerment, said the free train will, as usual, convey passengers from Lagos to Osogbo, the state capital, along the usual route of Lagos, Ogun,…

The US Mission in Nigeria has commenced a week-long training for 44 Nigerian clinical oncologists on the treatment of cancer in the country.

The state Commissioner for Health, Dr Fintan Echochin, said this in Enugu on Tuesday.

The Minister of Water Resources, Suleiman Adamu, at the event in Abuja, said the Partnership for Expanded Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene, agreement was a15-year programme targeting mobilisation of all stakeholders to channel efforts…

Abdullahi made this known on Tuesday in Abuja at the Second Conference of the “Feed the future Nigeria agricultural policy” project organised by International Food Policy Research Institute.

The Nigerian Meteorological Agency has predicted morning thunderstorms and rains over Katsina, Kano, Dutse, Nguru and Zaria, with cloudy condition in other parts of the northern region on Tuesday.

The Director General of NAFDAC, Prof. Moji Adeyeye, said this on Monday in Abuja.

A correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria who was at Gwarzo General Hospital on Monday reports that some of the cholera patients on admission were lying on the floor due to over congestion in the wards.

Malam Sa’id Umar, the Jigawa Nutrition Officer, says only 12.8 per cent of nursing mothers practice early initiation of breastfeeding in the state.

The Director-General of NAFDAC, Prof. Moji Adeyeye, said this in a statement on Monday in Abuja.

The President of NUF, Augustine Chukwudum, gave the advice while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria in Enugu on the rise of environmental borne diseases in the state.

NiMet made this known in its Weather Outlook by its Central Forecast Office in Abuja on Sunday.

NiMet made this known in its Weather Outlook by its Central Forecast Office in Abuja on Saturday

Dr Ochuko Eruikainre and Yeside Adesiyun, both Senior Research Officers and nutritionists, Federal Institute of Industrial Research, Oshodi, Lagos, spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos.

The United States Agency for International Development's Health Finance Governance project is providing technical supports to the the Osun Health Insurance Scheme to develop feasible benefit package that suits the financial capability of…

Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State has been asked to take charge of refuse disposal in Ibadan to save the city from imminent epidemic outbreak.