President Muhammadu Buhari inaugurated a public-private partnership council for the elimination of malaria, a major public health problem in Africa's most populous country

New demonstrations, dubbed 'Fearless October 1', will take place in the capital Abuja on Tuesday with citizens protesting against the cost of living crisis, and are scheduled to coincide with Nigeria's 64th anniversary of independence

90% of cancer patients in the country die and this is mainly due to the diagnosis coming in most cases at an already advanced stage of the disease, revealed Nigerian oncologist Samuel Otene, professor at the Benue state university teaching hospital

The 'National Migration Policy for Health Workers' has been approved with the aim of responding to the growing challenges related to the haemorrhaging of Nigerian health workers, lured abroad to seek employment

Interpol arrested more than 300 people as part of an international investigation against one of the world's largest criminal networks, the Nigerian Black axe, seizing $3 million in illicit assets and freezing more than 700 bank accounts