Healthcare

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Metro

Nigeria Loses 9000 Pharmacists to Emigration Crisis in Four Years

Nigeria's healthcare system faces a critical emergency as the Association of Community Pharmacists of Nigeria reveals that 9,000 pharmacists have fled the country...

Metro

Prioritise Doctor Welfare to Stem Medical Brain Drain, NMA FCT Chairman Urges Federal Government

Nigeria's newly elected Federal Capital Territory chairman of the Nigeria Medical Association has issued a stark warning to government officials: improve conditions for...

MetroWorld

Racist Abuse Against African Healthcare Workers Surges in UK NHS, Survey Reveals

Healthcare workers from Nigeria and across Africa who migrated to the United Kingdom seeking better opportunities are facing an alarming surge in racist...

Metro

Nigerian Doctors Demand End to Unlawful Arrests as Medical Association Warns Security Forces

Medical professionals in Nigeria are demanding an end to what they describe as unlawful arrests by security forces, with the Nigerian Medical Association...

Entertainment

Veteran Actress Ngozi Nwosu Appeals for N30 Million to Fund Emergency Surgeries

Veteran Nigerian actress Ngozi Nwosu has made an emotional public appeal for financial assistance as she battles an undisclosed medical condition that has...

Economy

Nigeria’s Petrol Subsidy Windfall: Trillions Flow to State Coffers While Schools and Hospitals Wait

Three years after President Bola Tinubu stood at Eagle Square and declared in five words that would reshape Nigerian economic life that "the...

Metro

FIWON Demands 50 50 Pension Scheme for Informal Workers in Nigeria

The Federation of Informal Workers Organisations of Nigeria FIWON has urged the Federal Government to introduce a 50 50 pension co contribution scheme...

World

WHO Says Vaccines Have Saved Over 150 Million Lives in 50 Years

The World Health Organization has revealed that vaccines have saved more than 150 million lives globally over the past five decades, highlighting one...

Metro

Ibom Air Donates 50,000 Anti Malaria Drugs to Support Mothers and Children in Akwa Ibom

Ibom Air has donated 50,000 doses of anti malaria medicines to the Akwa Ibom State Ministry of Health as part of efforts to...

World

US Reclassifies Marijuana to Expand Medical Access and Research

The United States government has announced a major policy shift on cannabis, easing restrictions to improve access for medical use and expand scientific...