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News Nigeria » Lagos » Health: Lift Suspension On Heart Mark Logo, Stakeholders Urge NAFDAC

News channel or source: https://www.msn.com/en-xl/africa/top-stories/lift-suspension-on-heart-mark-logo-stakeholders-urge-nafdac/ar-AA213X3u
Published on: Thursday 16 April 2026

...As NHF launches first heart mark logo month in LagosStakeholders in Nigeria's health and food regulation sectors have called on the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, ...

News Nigeria » Lagos » Health: Funding gaps, weak access stall childhood cancer survival as Lagos ramps up investment

News channel or source: https://businessday.ng/technology/article/funding-gaps-weak-access-stall-childhood-cancer-survival-as-lagos-ramps-up-investment/
Published on: Thursday 16 April 2026

Despite medical advances that can cure up to 80 percent of childhood cancers, survival rates across Africa remain as low as 20 percent ...

News Nigeria » Lagos » Health: Nigeria’s misdiagnosis crisis drives UNILAG medical college push for diagnostic reform

News channel or source: https://businessday.ng/technology/article/nigerias-misdiagnosis-crisis-drives-unilag-medical-college-push-for-diagnostic-reform/
Published on: Wednesday 15 April 2026

Nigeria’s healthcare system is facing renewed scrutiny over persistent cases of misdiagnosis, particularly in the treatment of common febrile illnesses often assumed to be malaria or typhoid without ...

News Nigeria » Lagos » Health: Repositioning Nigeria’s health workforce for better outcomes

News channel or source: https://www.thecable.ng/repositioning-nigerias-health-workforce-for-better-outcomes/
Published on: Sunday 05 April 2026

Stay connected via Google News BY VICTOR OLUWASEYIFUNMI Nigeria can’t achieve prevention without the right workforce. On ...

News Nigeria » Lagos » Health: World Health Day: Lagos pushes science, insurance to fix broken health system

News channel or source: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2026/04/world-health-day-lagos-pushes-science-insurance-to-fix-broken-health-system/
Published on: Tuesday 07 April 2026

By Chioma Obinna As the world marks this year’s World Health Day, the Lagos State government on Tuesday rallied policymakers, scientists, and development partners around a central question: Can ...

News Nigeria » Lagos » Health: Reckitt’s Catalyst Programme drives local sanitation impact in Nigeria

News channel or source: https://www.msn.com/en-xl/africa/nigeria/reckitt-s-catalyst-programme-drives-local-sanitation-impact-in-nigeria/ar-AA213bPg
Published on: Thursday 16 April 2026

Reckitt Nigeria has announced the commissioning of a new public sanitation facility in Abule Egba, Lagos, built by MN Environmental Services, one of four health and hygiene enterprises in Nigeria from ...

News Nigeria » Lagos » Health: When Science Exists but Care Fails - Nigeria's Primary Healthcare in Crisis

News channel or source: https://www.msn.com/en-xl/africa/top-stories/when-science-exists-but-care-fails-nigerias-primary-healthcare-in-crisis/ar-AA20Qnp0
Published on: Monday 13 April 2026

Twenty eight-year-old Aisha Sani went into labour in a small community on the outskirts of Benue, only to find the nearest primary healthcare centre locked no nurse, no midwife, and no drugs. Her ...

News Nigeria » Lagos » Health: Health insurance: Lagos steps up health insurance management, launches regulatory portal

News channel or source: https://thenationonlineng.net/health-insurance-lagos-steps-up-health-insurance-management-launches-regulatory-portal/
Published on: Tuesday 27 August 2024

The Lagos State Health Management Agency (LASHMA) has launched the Lagos State Health Scheme (LSHS) regulatory portal to strengthen health insurance governance as part of its ongoing efforts to ...

News Nigeria » Lagos » Health: The Deadly Labyrinth of Nigerian Healthcare

News channel or source: https://www.thenation.com/article/world/the-labyrinth-of-nigerian-healthcare/
Published on: Friday 10 April 2026

My mother miraculously survived a series of health scares—but she barely survived our country’s hospitals.