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Lassa Fever Outbreak Claims 155 Lives in 2025, NCDC Reports 

By The Insight Team August 6, 2025 361

mostbet mostbet az mostbet mostbet az mostbet mostbet az mostbet By Emmanuel Kwada The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has reported a grim milestone in the ongoing battle against Lassa fever, with 155 deaths recorded in 2025. According to the NCDC’s latest Situation Report for Week 29 (July 14–20, 2025), the country has seen 822 confirmed cases of the viral hemorrhagic fever […]Continue Reading

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Ministerial Committee Endorses BHCPF 2.0 for Enhanced Health Financing

By The Insight Team March 20, 2025 1129

Daniel Adaji, Abuja The Ministerial Oversight Committee (MOC) of the Basic Health Care Provision Fund (BHCPF) has approved and adopted the BHCPF 2.0 Guideline, reinforcing its commitment to strengthening health financing and ensuring transparency in fund disbursement. The endorsement came during the 10th MOC meeting held on Wednesday in Abuja, under the chairmanship of the Continue Reading

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Nigerians turn to unregulated local herbs for treatment as essential drugs remain unaffordable

By The Insight Team November 29, 2023 1064 Post a comment

… Saw Palmetto cancer drug price surges from N65,000 to N200,000 in just one year. Key points: Patients now result to use of unregulated drugs Essential medicine scarce, out of stock Major health crisis looms as prices of drugs prices soar How GSK’s exit complicates Nigeria’s drug problem Government need to promote localization of pharmaceutical […]Continue Reading

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dRPC tasks government on 2023 health budget; calls for quick releases of funds

By The Insight Team December 7, 2022 654

By Daniel Adaji In the 2023 budget, the health sector was allocated N1.17 trillion, but this has not changed the sloppy allocation and releases of health funds in the country,  data analysis by the development Research and Project Centre (dRPC) has revealed. FGN has only about three months to release all funds allocated to the […]Continue Reading

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Oversight: Zulum shows up 10pm at Bama hospital

By The Insight Team September 6, 2022 604

… Demands to know hospital’s problems … To spend days in Bama for humanitarian activities By Daniel Adaji Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum, on Monday night showed up unannounced at the General Hospital in Bama for on-the-spot monitoring of healthcare services’ delivery to the public. Professor Zulum visited the hospital at 10pm, not […]Continue Reading

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Here are countries to where Nigerian doctors flee, and why

By The Insight Team September 6, 2022 1779 Post a comment

By Theophilus Abbah Though emigration of doctors from Nigeria to developed countries is not a new phenomenon, a recent survey has revealed that the current rate of emigration by doctors which intensified in that last three years may be injurious to the country’s health sector. The survey conducted NOI Poll and Nigeria Health Watch showed […]Continue Reading

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‘Buhari welcomes cooperation on vaccine production’

By The Insight Team August 25, 2022 649

By Daniel Adaji President Muhammadu Buhari Thursday in Abuja welcomed the exploratory interactions, between Nigerian biomedical scientists, officials of the Federal Ministry of Health and BioNTech company, to support the production of messenger RNA vaccines in Nigeria. The President met wit Mr. Holm Kellerh , the Executive Chairman of KENUP Foundation and representative of Continue Reading

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Lassa fever casualties on the rise in Nigeria

By The Insight Team July 29, 2022 667

Daniel Adaji Since December 2016, Lassa fever infection has been on the rise in the country, as the number of confirmed cases and deaths of health workers and their patients is on the increase. Between 2016 and 2022, Nigeria has recorded 4,308 confirmed cases and 978 confirmed deaths, according to the Nigeria Centre for Disease […]Continue Reading

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Nigerian Youth Call for Action to Improve Adolescent Health

By The Insight Team April 7, 2021 839

Deliberations center on revitalizing healthcare services threatened by COVID-19 (Abuja, Nigeria, APRIL 7, 2021) Marking World Health Day, youth leaders and civil society groups from across Nigeria are urging the government to invest in equity enhancing strategies to restore crumbling services for women, newborns, children, and adolescents. This year’s annual celebration is Continue Reading

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Who shall save us from killer-doctors?

By The Insight Team September 7, 2020 709

By Theophilus Abbah They don’t belong to the bracket of quack doctors, who dispense drugs and inject victims with satanic and murderous dosage of chemicals. They are not medical college dropouts, who hypnotize unsuspecting public with precise medical language and overstretch their incomplete knowledge to administer pharmaceutical drugs and perform surgeries that maim and Continue Reading