Eric Dumo News Today

From  progress on the world’s first malaria vaccine to the impact of climate change on our health, here’s a rundown of some of our favourite stories of 2023.

In rural Ogun, mothers balked as scary rumours about the cancer-blocking jab swirled. Eric Dumo learned how a diverse bunch of community campaigners are changing their minds and tackling misinformation.

As the first phase of the country’s HPV vaccine campaign gets set to launch, leaders promise no eligible child will be left out.

Nigeria is about to roll out the HPV vaccine to millions of girls. Nobody knows better what that will spare them than the patients and survivors for whom the vaccine came too late.

Hospital Road is still under construction, but staff at the Ogijo Primary Health Centre say immunisation days are busier already.

Boasting of a rich past and an interesting culture, Opobo, homeland of legendary merchant trader, King Jaja, is a place where taboos soar above several other things,…

As 93.4 million Nigerians gather to elect a new president this week, experts hope political temperatures will be the only ones spiking at the ballot box.

Kano state sits at the epicentre of an outbreak of the vaccine-preventable disease, which has so far killed 38 and hospitalised many more. Though the region has a reputation for vaccine hesitancy, families are stepping up to help the health system curb the epidemic.

Nigeria's worst flooding in over a decade has left communities in limbo, with residents homeless and at risk of disease. But humanitarian groups are rising to the occasion, distributing life-saving aid from food to mosquito nets, and raising spirits in the process.

In Lagos, state authorities and health workers are going the extra mile to ensure residents take the second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine in the face of multiple health threats.