By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Reporter MARKING WORLD Health Day 2025, Nigeria’s First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, urged Nigerians—particularly women—to speak up and seek timely medical help when faced with health challenges. She made the call while receiving the National Taskforce on Cervical Cancer Elimination, led by the Minister of ...
By Joke Kujenya PUBLIC HEALTH advocates issued a fresh demand for urgent reforms as Nigeria marked World Health Day, warning that underfunded healthcare and unchecked junk food marketing are fuelling a national crisis of non-communicable diseases. Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA) urged the federal government to ...
By JKNewsMedia MENSTRUAL HYGIENE is receiving focused attention in Benue State’s Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps as a new grassroots initiative champions dignity and health for displaced women and girls. Dubbed “Pad Me A Girl” project, led by GATMASH MEDIA in collaboration with Access Bank, the team has joined forces with the Benue S...
By JKNewsMedia BETWEEN 1ST January and 27th March 2025, Lagos State says it has confirmed 10 cases of diphtheria, prompting health authorities to intensify containment efforts. The Commissioner for Health, Professor Akin Abayomi, reported that out of 76 samples tested, 10 returned positive, 63 were negative, and results for three samples coll...
By Joke Kujenya THE GLOBAL burden of oral diseases has reached alarming levels, with nearly 3.7 billion people—almost half of the world’s population—suffering from conditions ranging from tooth decay and gum disease to life-threatening oral cancers. The World Health Organization (WHO) has sounded the alarm, emphasising the urgent need for pre...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Reporter HEALTH ADVOCACY groups, the Nigerian Tobacco Control Alliance (NTCA) and Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA), have strongly criticised the N13million allocation for tobacco control in the 2025 national budget, describing it as grossly insufficient. At a press briefing in...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Reporter THE NATIONAL Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has provided critical clarifications regarding its recent nationwide crackdown on substandard, falsified, expired, and banned medicines. The agency emphasized that beyond enforcement, the seizures were necessary to protect pub...
By Jemimah Wellington, JKNewsMedia Reporter RISING OBESITY rates in Nigeria have rekindle concerns over unhealthy diets and the increasing burden of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs). Thus, Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA) has called for urgent policy changes to curb excessive consumption of sugary drinks, warni...
By Faith Alolade, JKNewsMedia Intern TOBACCO CONSUMPTION in Nigeria remains a major public health concern, with weak enforcement of existing laws allowing the industry to target vulnerable populations. Despite the establishment of the National Tobacco Control Act (NTCA) and accompanying regulations, tobacco-related illnesses continue to claim ...
By Joke Kujenya SWEAT DRIPPED from Kunle Adetola’s brow as he gripped the sides of the sink, his stomach twisting in agonising knots. The night had become a relentless cycle of sprinting to the toilet, his body betraying him with violent spasms of nausea and diarrhoea. Kunle Adetola, a 22-year-old university student in Southwest Nigeria...
