Nigeria Approves $1.07bn for Healthcare Overhaul, HIV Treatment The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has set up a multi-ministerial committee to develop a transition and sustainability plan to mitigate potential funding disruptions, following the recent executive order by US President Donald Trump to reassess and realign...

Dangote Refinery: Group Takes Lagos Gov't to Court Over $100m Land Deal The Lagos State Government has been dragged before the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, to be compelled to release information about whether or not Alhaji Aliko Dangote’s recent claim that he...

President Bola Tinubu has approved the establishment of the Sector-wide Coordinating Office-Programme Management Unit (SCO-PMU) domiciled in the Office of the Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare. 

Pate Urges EFCC, ICPC to Track States’ Spending on Health The Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Professor Muhammad Ali Pate, has tasked the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) and the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) to monitor disbursed funds...

Tinubu Harps on Local Vaccine Production as GAVI Pledges $1bn President Bola Tinubu has called on Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, to collaborate with potential Nigerian vaccine manufacturers to ensure equitable access to life-saving vaccines for children and adults. Speaking at a meeting with a delegation of...

Contrary to federal lawmakers' allegation that the Ministry of Health misappropriated $300 million in antimalarial funds, an international agency is behind the attempt to frustrate the use of the money for the project in Nigeria.