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1 week ago | 
businessday.ng | Godsgift Onyedinefu
Oluwole Oke, a member of the House of Representatives, has publicly expressed his frustration that he is being undermined and treated like an enemy by the Osun State Government and the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), despite his longstanding loyalty and service to the party.
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1 week ago | 
businessday.ng | Godsgift Onyedinefu
The House of Representatives ad-hoc Committee on Rivers State Oversight has summoned Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas (rtd.), the Sole Administrator of Rivers State, to appear before it for a comprehensive interactive session Thursday. The 21-member committee which the House innaugurated on Wednesday, following the emergency rule in Rivers State, held its inaugural meeting Wednesday at the National Assembly Complex, Abuja, where it resolved among others to invite the Rivers sole administrator.
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1 week ago | 
businessday.ng | Godsgift Onyedinefu
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has confirmed that 127 people have died from Lassa fever so far in 2025, as the country continues to battle a continued outbreak of the viral haemorrhagic illness. The latest situation report, covering Epidemiological Week 14 (31st March – 6th April), indicates that there have been 674 confirmed infections from a total of 4,025 suspected cases across 18 States and 93 Local Government Areas (LGAs).
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1 week ago | 
businessday.ng | Godsgift Onyedinefu
In a bid to promote preventive healthcare and raise awareness about the importance of maintaining good health, Ultimate Health HMO, in partnership with the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC), has offered free health screenings and counseling services to passengers traveling aboard trains and at various major Nigeria train stations.
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2 weeks ago | 
businessday.ng | Godsgift Onyedinefu
…as banks risk suspension of operating licenceFinancial and economic analysts have raised concerns over a proposed bill at the House of Representatives which seeks to prohibit age restrictions for the employment of Nigerian citizens in banks and other financial institutions.
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2 weeks ago | 
businessday.ng | Godsgift Onyedinefu
…say every $1 spent on immunisation saves Nigeria $44 healthcare costPublic health experts have called on Nigeria’s Government to significantly increase investment in tackling the low childhood immunisation rates in the Country, warning that underfunding vaccines is inflating healthcare bills and preventable disease outbreaks.
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2 weeks ago | 
businessday.ng | Godsgift Onyedinefu
THe World Health Organisation (WHO) has expressed concern that an estimated 178 000 mothers and one million newborns die in Africa every year, mostly from preventable causes. The WHO said African region has made progress in lowering maternal mortality since 2000 but progress still slow.
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2 weeks ago | 
businessday.ng | Godsgift Onyedinefu
The Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has reported that the death toll from the ongoing meningitis outbreak has reached 151, with 1,826 suspected cases reported across 23 states. This translates to a Case Fatality Rate (CFR) of 8.3%. According to the agency, the majority of suspected cases, approximately 94%, are concentrated in ten states: Kebbi (881 cases), Katsina (158), Jigawa (147), Yobe (109), Gombe (47), Sokoto (303), Borno (36), Adamawa (27), Oyo (23), and Bauchi (66).
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2 weeks ago | 
businessday.ng | Godsgift Onyedinefu
Nigeria’s Ministry of Health has received over 1,000,000 pentavalent meningococcal conjugate vaccine (Men5CV) doses from the Gavi-funded global stockpile to combat the meningococcus C and W outbreak in northern Nigeria. The outbreak has already claimed nearly 80 lives, with more than 800 cases across 23 states. Seasonal outbreaks are common during the dry season, which runs from December to June, peaking between March and April when low humidity and high dust levels prevail.
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3 weeks ago | 
businessday.ng | Godsgift Onyedinefu
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) on Wednesday announced that it had reopened the Bridgehead Drug Market in Onitsha following a month-long closure aimed at sanitising and enforcing regulatory measures in the pharmaceutical trade. The market, which includes Ogbo Ogwu and three adjoining market places, was shut from 10 February to 7 March to address lapses in medicine distribution practices.
