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typhoid

December 27, 2025

Thousands climb Bima Hill in dazzling festival kick-off

No fewer than 6,445 youths on Saturday, mounted Bima Hill to mark the 2025 Annual Cultural Festival of Hina Community in Yamaltu/Deba LGA, Gombe.

Bima Hill
June 17, 2025

Experts recommend urgent action against typhoid outbreaks

Mr Akhamie said, “Patients often come in with fatigue, fluctuating temperatures, and digestive issues,” he said.

Typhoid chart
October 28, 2024
James Faleke
October 8, 2024

FG urges collective action for sustainable handwashing

The minister said that handwashing with soap remains one of the most effective and affordable ways to prevent diseases.

Handwashing
October 9, 2023

Lagos reopens sealed Ladipo, Oyingbo, other markets

The Lagos Waste Management Authority (LAWMA) has reopened the sealed Ladipo, Oyingbo, Alamutu Ologede and Ile-Epo markets.

Ladipo market
July 5, 2023

UN begins verification of 18,000 Cameroonian refugees in Cross River

It also targets them for life-saving interventions, including food assistance, non-food items and livelihood support.

The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR)
November 10, 2022

WHO decries unequal access to vaccines, calls for global changes

However, the report showed that free market policies are depriving some of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people of this right.

WHO; VACCINE
October 30, 2022

Patients, relatives lament as dearth of health workers hit Katsina hospitals

Many expressed regret that patients and their accompanying relatives suffer long hours in the hospitals before getting attention.

hospital
July 21, 2021

Ekiti landlords comply with “one house, one toilet” policy

No fewer than 77 persons were arrested and arraigned before mobile courts in 2021.

Open defecation
May 23, 2021

Kaduna gets bamboo toilets to combat open defecation

According to a World Health Organisation (WHO) report, about 47 million people still practise open defecation.

Open defecation