Health news.
A highly contagious eye infection popularly known as “Apollo” or conjunctivitis is spreading across Bauchi State, with the Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Abubakar Suleiman, among those affected.
The Association of Medical Laboratory Scientists of Nigeria (AMLSN) has warned that the country’s near-total reliance on imported diagnostics and reagents poses serious risks to health security and the economy, calling for immediate local manufacturing reforms.
The European Union has approved €2.3 million in emergency humanitarian funding for Nigeria, Cameroon, Central African Republic and Chad to contain cholera outbreaks, as WHO records nearly 62,000 cases and over 1,200 deaths across Africa since January.
The Federal Government has directed the ICPC to monitor spending across the health sector in a major push to eliminate corruption, waste, and leakages in healthcare funding.
The World Health Organisation says over 10,400 attacks on healthcare have been recorded globally since 2018, killing 5,700 people, with Nigeria listed among 29 affected countries and territories and zero accountability so far.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo says its ongoing Ebola outbreak has killed more than 2,300 people, surpassing the 2018–2020 epidemic to become the country’s deadliest on record, with a case fatality rate of about 47 per cent.
Health workers in Katsina State, under NMA and NANNM, have given the state government 21 days to address unpaid salaries, allowances, and poor working conditions or face an indefinite strike.
The death toll from DR Congo's 17th Ebola outbreak has climbed to 2,011, with a 45.9% fatality rate, as WHO officials warn only about 30% of infections are being detected and a full-scale trial of an existing vaccine is now being planned.
Nigeria has recorded 1,000 confirmed Lassa fever cases and 237 deaths in the first 30 epidemiological weeks of 2026, with the case fatality rate rising to 23.7 per cent, up from 18.8 per cent in the same period in 2025, the NCDC said.
The Nigeria Union of Journalists, Bauchi State Council, has called on the state government to urgently scale up its response to a rapidly spreading cholera outbreak that has claimed lives across multiple local government areas.
Nigeria has recorded 1,000 confirmed Lassa fever cases and 237 deaths in 2026, with 53 healthcare workers among those infected, the NCDC said in its latest situation report
Lagos State says more than 1.5 million residents are enrolled in its health insurance scheme as the government introduces instalment payments, subsidies for vulnerable groups and emergency assistance to advance universal health coverage.
