The Apapa Area Command of the Nigeria Customs Service has announced the interception of an ambulance conveying 10 cartons of 225miligrammes of Tramadol in the Apapa area of Lagos State.

It said the Hyundai ambulance, with number plate, LND 605 XW, was intercepted with the drugs while the driver was trying to smuggle them out of the port amid sirens.

Some wives of Nigerian Governors, under the aegis of Wives of Governors Against Cancer (WOGAC), has formed a strong alliance with Roche Nigeria as part of their efforts to win the war against cancer in Nigeria.

Roche, an international organization with headquarters in Basel, Switzerland, is a leader in research-focused healthcare with combined strength in pharmaceuticals and diagnostics and is also the world’s largest biotech company with truly differentiated medicines in oncology, virology, inflammation, metabolism, and CNS.

Nigerian leaders must demonstrate political and financial commitment towards ending Tuberculosis (TB) in the country. This was the conclusion on Wednesday at the second National Tuberculosis Conference held in Abuja.

The event was organized by the Stop TB Partnership Nigeria and had in attendance political leaders, civil society organizations, international development partners, academics, health workers and players in TB network in the country.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has expressed concern over worldwide negligence of vaccination against measles and some other diseases. The information is on WHO’s official website, where the world body said 20 million children worldwide missed lifesaving vaccines such as measles, diphtheria, and tetanus in 2018.

“This finding is contained in new data by WHO and UNICEF. “Globally, since 2010, vaccination coverage with three doses of diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis (DTP3) and one dose of the measles vaccine has stalled at around 86 percent.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared the ongoing Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC).

This declaration was made in a press conference on Wednesday by the Director-General, WHO, Tedros Ghebreyesus.

Dr Abiye Kalaiwo, the Programme Manager, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) says the organisation will begin a preventive intervention programme on HIV prevalence in Nigerian prisons by September this year.

Kalaiwo told News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Abuja that USAID had prisons in Bauchi, Niger, Adamawa and Bayelsa as its targets.

The National Agency for Food Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has exonerated National Eye Centre, Kaduna from the Avastin crisis. The agency in its laboratory test report said that the Avastin drug conforms with the standard certification process as the drug storage and chemical composition were excellent.

Speaking on behalf of the  Director-General NAFDAC before the Senate ad-hoc committee in National Assembly yesterday, the Director, Pharmaco-Vigilance, Ali Ibrahim said before they registered the Avastin drug for use in Nigeria, it was tried and proven to be effective, apart from the monitoring and effective tracking.

The former Minister of Science and Technology, Ogbonnaya Onu, has said two Nigerian agencies have developed a drug “used in testing women who have breast cancer” with another in the pipeline “which has gone very far” in the cure of leprosy.

He said this during his ministerial screening at the Senate on Wednesday. He was the sixth nominee to be screened by the lawmakers.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) says it is set to declare Nigeria a polio-free country. This is according to a statement by the Media and Communication Expert for WHO Nigeria, Charity Warigon, in Abuja on Tuesday.

Ms Warigon quoted Clement Peter, Officer in charge (OiC) of WHO office in Nigeria, as stating that in two months the country would reach three years without a polio case and could be certified polio-free.

The health minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Oly Ilunga, has resigned in protest over the handling of the Ebola outbreak in the east of the country. According to the BBC, the minister, in his resignation letter, condemned a decision by President Felix Tshisekedi to replace him as the head of the Ebola response team.

Mr Ilunga also criticised what he described as outside pressure to roll out a new experimental Ebola vaccine.