Birnin Kebbi – Holding her 2-month-old daughter, Fatima, at an outreach vaccination session in Sabon Gari, a remote community in Birnin Kebbi Local Government Area in north-west Nigeria, Rukayya Muhammed Bako remembers w…
Read moreMaiduguri, Eight-year-old Ali Ibrahim sat up in his bed at the Cholera Treatment Unit (CTU) in Njimtilo, Borno State, eating and looking forward to going home. Days earlier, repeated diarrhoea and vomiting left him…
Read moreAbuja, Nigeria is strengthening dog vaccination, surveillance and public awareness to prevent rabies deaths and advance efforts to end human deaths from dog-mediated rabies by 2030.The 2026 World Rabies Day commemoration…
Read moreAbuja, Three days of discussions, shared experiences and collaborative drafting have brought African journalists closer to developing the continent’s first standardized guidelines for reporting on road traffic cras…
Read moreKatsina, For families living along the border between Nigeria and Niger, crossing between the two countries is part of everyday life. People visit relatives, trade in local markets and move with their livestock in search…
Read moreAbuja, Nigeria — September 22, 2026 — The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development (CJID) will today open a first-of-its-kind African media forum on road safety, aimed at k…
Read moreAbuja – When 32-year-old Shafa’atu Isyaku noticed that her 4-year-old daughter, Maimuna, could not move her left leg, she took her to a primary health care centre in Kano State, north western Nigeria.“I was worried becau…
Read moreAbuja – For Dr Aminatu Makarfi Umar, a gynaecologist in Kaduna State, HIV prevention should be part of routine care for women who may benefit from it.“Every pregnant woman at increased risk of HIV deserves to know her pr…
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