Health
US-Funded Vaccine Trial on Babies Cancelled in Guinea-Bissau After Outrage Over Unethical Plan to Withhold Shots
A proposed trial of a hepatitis B vaccine on newborn babies in Guinea-Bissau has been cancelled following widespread accusations that the study was...
NAFDAC Celebrates N5 Million Fine for Fake Goya Oil Maker as Counterfeiters Walk Free
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control has announced what it considers a major victory in its fight against counterfeit...
Jide Idris Collected ₦10bn for Ebola, Now Claims It Was for Lassa Fever After WHO Confirmed No Active Cases
The Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, Jide Idris, has been caught in a web of contradictions after he...
Is Nigeria’s Ebola Outbreak a Ploy to Rig 2027 Elections and Push the US Health Deal?
The confirmation of an Ebola case in the Federal Capital Territory has sparked widespread outrage on social media, with many Nigerians asking if...
Senegal High Court Refers French National and 14 Accomplices to Criminal Chamber for Transnational Child Exploitation and Deliberate HIV Transmission
The senior investigating judge at the Dakar High Court has formally closed the judicial inquiry into a transnational child exploitation network linked to...
Nigeria and Uganda Signed US Health Deals Giving Access to Medical Records as Ghana Rejected Similar Pact
Nigeria and Uganda signed health agreements with the United States in December 2025 that give Washington access to sensitive health data, pathogen specimens...
Gambia’s FGM Ban Under Threat as Imam Abdoulie Fatty and MP Almameh Gibba Push to Make Cutting Girls Legal Again
Two men are leading the charge to overturn The Gambia’s ban on female genital mutilation, and if they succeed, the practice that has...
From Yemen’s Khat Fields to Nigeria’s Gold Mines, Dehumanisation Fuels a Shared Drug Crisis
A social media post about Yemen’s khat addiction has sparked a conversation about how drug abuse is used to dehumanise entire populations, and...
BudgIT Exposes Taraba’s Rot: ₦5.55bn for Wukari, Patients Sleep on Mats at Jibu Hospital
A civic technology organisation, BudgIT, has exposed a stark contradiction in Taraba State, revealing that Wukari Local Government Area received a total of...
Diphtheria Outbreak Claims 23 Lives in Plateau State, 143 Suspected Cases Recorded
Twenty-three people have died from suspected diphtheria in Plateau State in the last two weeks, with 143 suspected cases recorded as the state...
Senegalese Company Produces First Africa-Made Treatment for Sickle Cell Disease
A Senegalese pharmaceutical company has produced the first Africa-made treatment for sickle cell disease, a breakthrough that offers hope to millions of sufferers...
Tinubu Government’s Indifference to Nigerian Lives Laid Bare as Counterfeit Alcohol Poisons and Kills
A health crisis is quietly claiming Nigerian lives, but the government appears indifferent. Hospitals across the country are reporting a steady rise in...