Health

By Sylvia Kodilichukwu, Enugu A group, Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA) has tasked both federal and state governments in Nigeria to develop and implement comprehensive healthy food policies targeted at reducing the exposure of Nigerians to certain foods. It listed these as ultra-processed foods, tobacco, excessive sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) and salt consumption, saying these constitute high-risk factors driving the country’s alarming cancer burden and other non-communicable diseases (NCDs). CAPPA noted that cancer has remained a major public health issue in Nigeria, with an increasing number of new cases and deaths. It said Nigeria records over 120,000 new cases…

By Sylvia Kodilichukwu, Enugu Following the recurrence of infectious diseases in the country, Enugu State Government, in collaboration with The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), conducted a simulation exercise at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu,the state capital. The State Commissioner for Health, Professor Ikechukwu Obi, expressed the state government’s readiness to prevent and combat any outbreak of infectious diseases in order to ensure hitch-free Yuletide celebrations in the South-Eastern state. The exercise, which held at the Nigeria Safety and Investigation Bureau (NSIB) premises, involved FAAN workers and other health-related agencies operating at the airport. In a reassuring remark,…

By Johnson Nwankwo President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has signed an executive order suspending tariffs, excise duties, and value-added tax (VAT) on imported pharmaceu machinery and other inputs. It was gathered that the move was to make the essential commodities affordable. The coordinating minister of health and social welfare, Muhammad Ali Pate, stated the signing on Friday. He said the initiative aims to rejuvenate Nigeria’s health sector and increase local production of pharmaceuticals, diagnostics, medical devices such as needles and syringes, biologicals, and medical textiles. The order to be codified by the minister of justice and attorney general of the federation,…

Friends and colleagues of Abubakar Alimi, a journalist based in Lokoja, Kogi state, have launched an appeal for funds to enable him undergo kidney transplant. The Publisher of Kogi Express, the leading community newspaper in Lokoja, Kogi State, is presently on admission at the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital, Gwagwalada in the Federal Capital Territory. Alimi at the hospital His colleagues, Sheddy Ozoene, Dada Ahmed and James Oyewole are appealing to public-spirited individuals and organizations to come to his assistance. For the past five months he has been down with kidney failure and now admitted to the University of Abuja…