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NHIS To Subsidize Cancer Drugs By 80%

Enrollees under the National Health Insurance Scheme in Nigeria,NHIS, will be paying only 20% for Cancer drugs. The Executive Secretary of the NHIS Professor Mohammed...

FCT Records 35.4% Malaria Prevalence With 289,957 Cases

In the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), malaria accounts for 70 percent of outpatient visits, 40 percent of admissions with total 389,957 cases reported, and...

Nigeria, Major Stakeholders Commit To End FGM

Nigerian government, international community, major stakeholders and Non Governmental Organisations have committed to ending Female Genital Mutilation in Nigeria. The commitment was made at the...

Johnson-Sirleaf Calls For Deepening Diagnostic Expertise, Health Systems

A former President of Liberia, Mrs Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, says African countries must work to build research expertise in diseases affecting Africans and create better...

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Senate Suspends Bills for New Universities

The Nigerian Senate has directed its committees to stop processing bills seeking the establishment of new universities and other tertiary institutions, citing the Federal Government’s six-year moratorium on the creation of additional institutions. The directive was announced during Wednesday’s plenary session, November 4, 2026, as lawmakers considered the...

5.5 Million Nomadic Children Out of School in Nigeria

The National Commission for Nomadic Education has disclosed that approximately 5.5 million children from nomadic pastoralist, migrant fishing and migrant farming communities are out of school across Nigeria. The commission’s Acting Executive Secretary, Umar Abdu, revealed the figure during an interview in Kano on the sidelines of an...

Court Removes Karimi as APC’s Kogi West Candidate

A Federal High Court in Abuja has nullified the nomination of Senator Sunday Karimi as the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate for the Kogi West senatorial district ahead of the 2027 general elections. The court ordered the APC to replace Karimi with Samuel Aro, whom it recognised as...