Akwa Ibom State First Lady Designate, Lady Helen Eno Obareki. By Anietie Akpan The Coordinator, Office of the First Lady, Akwa Ibom State, Lady Helen Eno Obareki, has decried the low rate of registration of new born babies in the state. Lady Obareki who was shocked with the low number of babies with birth certificates…
Despite allocating over N16 billion between 2019 and 2023, Lagos State continues to face a severe water crisis, with a deadly cholera outbreak highlighting the inadequacy of the state’s water supply systems. PREMIUM TIMES reported that in October 2024, the state recorded 134 deaths from 4,667 cholera cases, making it the epicentre of the outbreak…
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has raised concerns over major disruptions in health services across the world, noting that 70 per cent of its country offices have observed major impacts caused by recent donor funding cuts. WHO, in a latest report published on its website, attributed the disruptions to the sudden suspension and reduction of Official Development…
Public health experts have raised concerns over Nigeria’s primary healthcare system, revealing that only about 40 per cent of local government areas (LGAs) have medically qualified Medical Officers of Health (MOHs). This means more than 460 out of the 774 LGAs in Nigeria lack medically trained officers to supervise health services, a situation that experts…
KEBBI – This week, Nigeria’s Ministry of Health 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 over 70 lives, with more than 800 cases across 23 states. Seasonal outbreaks are common during the dry…
