Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has warned the federal government that the $1.07 billion allocated to the health sector in the 2025 budget should not be misused. In a statement in Abuja, Atiku asked that mechanisms must be put in place to ensure the funds are used to improve healthcare services rather than vanish under suspicious circumstances. The Peoples Democratic Party …

Former President Muhammadu Buhari has opened up about his health since leaving office on 29 May 2023. Buhari said his health has improved, adding that he looks better since leaving office in 2023. While in office as President, Buhari was plagued by illness which led to him being flown abroad for medical attention. He handed over to Bola Tinubu after …

For Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, there is no letting up in his determination to leave a lasting and positive impression on the minds of Lagosians. Unlike many governors, who drop the ball in the execution of legacy projects once they secure a second term, this laser-focused governor is charging on relentlessly, completing big projects and initiating new ones that are as …

To hasten relief efforts for victims of the devastating floods, as well as for health and agricultural sectors’ reforms, the Nigerian government has secured a $600,000 relief fund and commitments from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Specifically, the Foundation pledged the $600,000 for flood relief in Borno State and other health sector initiatives, with an additional $5 million grant …

The co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates is visiting Nigeria this week, as part of the foundation’s ongoing commitment to Africa’s development. Gates will be meeting with national and local leaders, partners, grantees, and innovators to discuss advancing health, innovation, and nutrition across Africa. Gates, alongside other foundation leaders, will meet with experts in primary health …

Exciting ways regular sex improves your health contains eleven tips for a good sex life that enhances your physical and mental well-being.  Besides being a great way to feel good with your spouse, it helps raise your heart rate and balance your estrogen and testosterone levels. Having sex regularly may help resolve many problems like osteoporosis and even heart disease. …

Many ways grief can harm your health explain what part of your body grief affects the most and how you can lessen the effect on your physical, mental, and spiritual health. For instance, grief may make you feel depressed, tearful, or isolated. You may spend time thinking about the past. Or feel guilty about not doing enough for the deceased. …

Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature, William Butler Yeats, aptly put it in his famous The Second Coming. When things fall apart, wrote Yeats, not only can’t the centre hold, even the falcon cannot hear the falconer. I find a corollary in this cause and effects thesis offered by Yeats in the narration of Reverend …

The Nigerian chapter of the West African College of Physicians has decried the country’s low budgetary allocation for the health sector, saying it has contributed to the high rate of noncommunicable diseases in the country. It said that although Nigeria has recorded some achievements in the health sector, the federal government needs to redouble its efforts. The Vice President and …