Lagos State Commissioner of Police (CP) Mr. Olohundare Jimoh, has urged survivors of sexual and gender-based violence (GBV) to report incidents promptly and reject the fear of societal stigma, emphasizing that early reporting is critical to ensuring justice. Jimoh assured the survivors that the police are fully equipped to handle such cases with sensitivity and speed. Jimoh while speaking on Sunday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria…

In a bold move to accelerate progress towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC), the Lagos State Health Management Agency (LASHMA) has inducted 20 National Health Fellows (NHFs) as ILERA EKO Champions. The initiative, unveiled during a stakeholders’ engagement in Alausa, Ikeja, seeks to harness youth leadership in driving the state’s mandatory health insurance scheme. LASHMA Permanent Secretary, Emmanuella Zamba, congratulated the newly appointed fellows and urged them to uphold the values…

Health officials in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have confirmed 16 suspected human cases of anthrax in the country’s eastern North Kivu Province, with one case laboratory-confirmed and one death recorded. According to World Health Organisation (WHO), the outbreak is centered in four health zones near Lake Edward, a region bordering Uganda, which is also responding to a similar outbreak across the lake in Kabale District. The Ministry…

Nigeria is experiencing a promising decline in confirmed cases of Lassa fever and Cerebrospinal Meningitis (CSM), according to recent data released by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC). In week 16 of the epidemiology, the country reported 4,253 suspected Lassa fever cases, with 696 confirmed and 132 deaths—yielding a case fatality rate of 19.0 percent. Encouragingly, this marks a significant reduction from earlier weeks. Speaking at a…

A wave of sorrow has swept through the nursing communities in both the UK and Nigeria following the tragic death of Nnena Miriam, a Nigerian nurse based in Leeds. Her body was discovered in her apartment after friends and colleagues grew concerned over her sudden disappearance. Fellow Nurses Africa, a professional body committed to the advancement of African nurses, confirmed her passing in a statement released on Wednesday. According to…

Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) have called for a stronger, more independent action from National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency (NOSDRA) to address the constant oil spillage faced in Niger Delta region.  The call was made during a visit to its zonal office in Port Harcourt on Wednesday. The delegation, which included representatives from Environmental Rights Action (ERA), Kebetkache Women Development Centre, Media Awareness and Justice Initiative (MAJI), and others,…

The Abia State Government targets to recruit about 771 health workers as it okays a new salary scale with immediate effect beginning from May 1. The recruitment exercise will span various healthcare departments, including doctors, nurses, pharmacists, medical lab scientists, and other categories of healthcare workers. The new salary scale known as the Abia State Health Workers Salary Scale (ASHWOSS) was revealed on Wednesday in a document shared and signed…

To help improve affordable and accessible healthcare service in the state, the Bayelsa State Government expressed its readiness to collaborate with the Association of Medical Laboratory Scientists of Nigeria (AMLSN) and other key stakeholders in the health sector. To back this, the Deputy Governor, Mr Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo, revealed its approval for the recruitment of the medical laboratory scientists and doctors in the civil service recruitment exercise which is ongoing. This…

Experts said being exposed to video games has the tendency to leave a positive or negative impact on the mental health of gamers.

In a historic world first, scientists in Britain have successfully used living human brain tissue to mimic the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease, marking a major step forward in the urgent quest for a cure. A research team at the University of Edinburgh, working in partnership with NHS surgeons, exposed healthy brain tissue from living patients to toxic forms of amyloid beta, a protein heavily linked to Alzheimer’s. By doing…

Experts have sought that male health workers should be given licences to conduct mammograms on patients in order to address the national staff shortage. Although this move has already attracted political mixed reactions. The Society of Radiographers (SoR) explained that a mammogram is a breast-screening examination reserved exclusively for female staff. Mammograms are carried out on patients to identify tiny cancers which are not visible to the eyes or can’t…

For partners navigating the long journey of life together, the occasional argument might seem like a sign of trouble—but experts increasingly argue that healthy conflict can actually be the key to a stronger, more resilient relationship. While celebrity couple George and Amal Clooney recently made headlines with their claim of nearly 12 years of marriage without a single argument, therapists say such friction-free unions are the rare exception, not the…