Federal Ministry of Health

The government of Nigeria has called for more support to enable  it provide additional support for persons affected by terrorism and other crises in its northeast region. Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, made the call on Monday while…

The Community Health and Research Initiative (CHR) an NGO  working towards the reduction of  maternal/under-5  morbidity and mortality rates in the Northern part of  Nigeria, has again raised the alarm over the federal government's failure…

Stop  TB Partnership, the leading organization helping Nigerian government to fight tuberculosis, otherwise known as TB, has taken its awareness campaign on the condition to tertiary institutions across the nation. Such a campaign…

In the wake of the BBC undercover report, the Federal Ministry of Health has directed the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) to ban with immediate effect further issuance of permits for the importation…

Four cases from Lagos confirmed negative ABUJA - The Federal Ministry of Health announced today that three samples from the 17 suspected cases of monkeypox disease reported at the Niger Delta University Teaching Hospital (NDUTH),…

Latest report on this year budget for the nation’s health sector by Federal Government’s has revealed and faulted zero allocation for family planning by the government as third quarter of the year ends in September. Our…

By Deo Akinbo Multinational pharmaceutical firm, Merck, today donated 35 million tablets of Praziquantel to help Nigerian health workers treat children infected with Schistosomiasis (or bilharzia), a parasitic disease Merck chief…

By Deo Akinbo As Nigeria prepares to join the rest of the world tomorrow to mark the 2015 World Diabetes Day (WDD), the Ministry of Health has disclosed that no fewer than 5 million Nigerian adults have diabetes and less than 50 per cent…

● Health budget continues to decline ● Nigeria maintains one of world's lowest health budget           Less than four months before the end of 2015, the Federal Ministry of Health is yet to receive its budgetary allocation, NHO can…

The Federal Ministry of Health Thursday performed the "ground breaking" for the construction of a state-of-the-art pharmaceutical grade warehouse to be built in Lagos by the US government through the US Agency for International…