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Health MattersJan 25, 2026

NAFDAC Warns Nigerians Against Fake Goya Oil Sold in Plastic Bottles - FinancialEDGE

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has warned Nigerians against the use of Goya oil sold in PET plastic bottles. The warning was issued on Friday during a media parley held at the agency’s Investigation and Enforcement Directorate office in Lagos. The agency describes the products as fake and unsafe

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NAFDAC Warns Nigerians Against Fake Goya Oil Sold in Plastic Bottles - FinancialEDGE

Polaris Bank Champions Girls’ Hygiene Awareness with Female Hygiene Essentials Distribution in Kuramo & Victoria Island Junior and Senior Secondary Schools - FinancialEDGE

EMT Foundation Empowers 30 Enterpreneurs, Supports 200 Sickle Cell Warriors, Others - FinancialEDGE

Cancer Care: Polaris Bank celebrates with C.O.P.E on 30 Years of Hope, Impact, and Partnership - FinancialEDGE

United Steps Against Cancer: Access Holdings Rallies for Breast Cancer Awareness - FinancialEDGE

Marcel Ofomata Foundation to Host Free 2-Day Medical Outreach in Anambra to Mark 10th Anniversary - FinancialEDGE

Gov. Makinde to Flag Off 2025 Omituntun Free Health Mission, Tuesday - FinancialEDGE

Codix Bio Limited Unveiled as WHO-Supported Factory for Rapid Diagnostic Test Kits Production in Africa - FinancialEDGE

Oyo College of Nursing Holds 27th Convocation Ceremony, Graduates 469 - FinancialEDGE

Seplat Energy JV Brings Free Eye Care to Imo State - FinancialEDGE

Oyo College of Nursing To Award Degrees Soon- Provost - FinancialEDGE

Oyo Govt To Upgrade 66 PHCs for Better Healthcare Delivery - FinancialEDGE

AMCE Makes Strides Towards June 2025 Launch: Notable Construction Milestones Unveiled - FinancialEDGE

Oyo Govt Invests N30m in Fight Against Neglected Tropical Diseases - FinancialEDGE

Appeal fund to assist journalist for brain surgery hits N1m milestone, awaits intervention from Sanwo-Olu, banks, Dangote, NNPC, BUA, others - FinancialEDGE

Dominion City gives succor to widows; others in Lagos, Abuja - FinancialEDGE

NDLEA & NAFDAC sign MoU to strengthen collaboration on illicit drugs, counterfeit products - FinancialEDGE

GoMed Brings Quality Healthcare to More Cities, Expands to Benin, Port Harcourt, and Gombe - FinancialEDGE

Entafield Dental Clinic’s ‘Smile Lagos’ Initiative Receives Heartfelt Gratitude from Lagosians - FinancialEDGE

Hydrogen Unveils ‘Healthy Heart, Healthy Business’ Program to Support Entrepreneurial Well-being - FinancialEDGE

Eti Osa Council and Entafield Clinic Launch ‘Smile Lagos’ Initiative, Offering 1000 Free Dentures - FinancialEDGE

Nigeria Contextualizes Latest WHO’s MHGAP to Bridge Mental Health Gap - FinancialEDGE

Shipment to Nigeria marks first-ever use of new meningitis vaccine - FinancialEDGE

FG Issue Executive Order to Curb Escalating Drug Prices - FinancialEDGE

Ecobank Nigeria Partners Lagos State Government to Clean Up Water Fronts - FinancialEDGE

CSR: Ecobank Pledges Support to fight against non-communicable Disease… As its staff walk against cancer - FinancialEDGE

Fidson Healthcare Announces Strategic Partnership With Leading Japanese Pharmaceutical Company - FinancialEDGE

Ecobank Nigeria Removes Two Million Plastic Bottles From Lagos Streets - FinancialEDGE

NSE Donates N20 Million to Support Cancer Causes Across Nigeria - FinancialEDGE

Fidson Healthcare Partners Japanese Pharmaceutical Firm - FinancialEDGE

Hundreds of Runners Braved the Rain to “eRace Cancer” at NSE Corporate Challenge - FinancialEDGE

Local Packaging of WHO-Approved HIV Tests, a Shift in Africa’s Diagnostic Capacity

Colexa Biosensor Limited Makes an Audacious Move to Transform Africa&#8217;s Healthcare System, commissions 1st In-Vitro Diagnostics (IVD) Factory in Sub-Saharan Africa

AfriSummit 2023: African Health Authorities and Industry Leaders Convene to Explore Pharma Regulations and Innovations

RBM Partnership to End Malaria welcomes WHO’s recommendation of world’s second malaria vaccine

18 million doses of first-ever malaria vaccine allocated to 12 African countries for 2023–2025: Gavi, WHO and UNICEF

GTCO Autism Conference 2023, Empowering Voices For Autism

Vaccine Alliance reaches more than one billion children

Experience Amazing Culinary Feast at the 2023 GTCO Food &#038; Drink Festival

Global partners announce a new effort to vaccinate millions of children and restore immunisation progress lost during the pandemic

Dangote: Global Partnerships and Investments saved 12m lives from Malaria deaths

Gavi launches new learning initiative to address the final barriers to immunization equity

Ex-Boko Haram fighter, traditional ruler, 35 others arrested for drug trafficking . As NDLEA intercepts heroin, skunk in deep freezers, cooking gas cylinders at Lagos airport, Idiroko; destroys 39.8 hectares of cannabis farms in Edo, Ondo

LASUTH Holds Free Cataract Surgery For Residents Of Ojokoro

African Development Bank Group &#038; Islamic Development Bank join forces to boost Africa’s health defense systems through the pharmaceutical industry

On World Neglected Tropical Disease Day, over US$7 million new funding announced to expand efforts towards sleeping sickness elimination in nine African nations

In South Africa, medical trains boost mental health services to rural communities

eha Impact Ventures partners with Stanbic IBTC to provide capital to Nigerian primary care provider EHA Clinics

US Medical Team commends LASUTH for providing Cardiac Catheterization lab

Union Bank and MobiHealth International Announce Partnership

Nigerian Embassy hosts 13 Belgian doctors, investors.

Professor Fabamwo adds another feather to his cap, inducted into the Nigerian Academy of Medicine

Stanbic IBTC Advocates Collaboration &#038; Innovative Financing Solutions In Order To Boost Healthcare in Nigeria

Healthy Heart Foundation Supports Indigent Nigerians with Free Open-Heart Surgeries

Sterling Biopharma Launches Fejeron Blood Tonic, Seeks To Inspire Nigerians

Heritage Bank joins forces with Gail Sickle Initiative to rescue sickle cell patients

NIMASA Donates Medical Equipment in the Federal Capital Territory

President Buhari names Dangote as Chairman of National End Malaria Council …Dangote Pledges private sector support

Sterling Bank, NHEA recognize Nigeria&#8217;s Healthcare Champions

African Development Bank’s Board approves Establishment of African Pharmaceutical Technology Foundation

2020 Time100 Winner, Dr. Tunji Funsho, Extol High-level Professionalism at LASUTH

Sterling Bank signs MoU with optometrists on funding, capacity building

ABCHEALTH, UNAIDS sign partnership MOU for Improved Healthcare industry in Africa

NDLEA intercepts N1.1billion travellers’ cheques, 10.89kg Cocaine at Lagos airport &#8230;Seizes 2.3million Tramadol tabs, 2,919 bottles of Codeine in Kaduna

NDLEA seizes Cocaine in teabags, arrests 4 traffickers at Lagos, Abuja airports . Mops up 88,734 Tramadol caps, Cracks, others in Kano, Kaduna, Benue, Akwa Ibom, FCT raids

LaFiya Telehealth and Tyto Care partnership to advance telemedicine in Nigeria

677 drug traffickers jailed, 3,359 arrested, 65,915.891kg seized in Q1

NDLEA intercepts 101 parcels of Cocaine in Children duvets at Lagos airport &#8230;Seizes drugged Milo beverage in Edo; skunk in detergent containers at Enugu airport

Queen of drug cartel, cross-border trafficker arrested in Taraba, Adamawa

How Nigerians spend $39.66bn on foreign education &#038; medical tourism

2 drug dealers excrete 165 wraps of cocaine in NDLEA custody &#8230; Agency intercepts consignments going to Australia, China, Qatar, Ireland, Thailand; seizes 2,293kg substances, cash in Rivers, Ogun, Enugu raids

Ogun State Ministry of Environment and Nestlé Nigeria, collaborate to mark 2022 World Water Day

NDLEA intercepts 1.9million tablets of Tramadol, Codeine at Lagos airport &#8230;Arrests drug kingpin behind Ghana-bound 11.913kg Cocaine

Father of 4 arrested with 20.75kg black liquid cocaine in makeup mascara at Abuja airport &#8230;As NDLEA recovers in Ogun 865.2kg drugs smuggled from Benin Republic; 30,880 tablets of Tramadol, Diazepam, Exol-5 in Kaduna

Lagos Happiness Center set to mark 2022 Happiness International Day

NDLEA intercepts 3million opioid caps at Lagos terminal; 8, 613kg Loud at Eko beach

Stanbic IBTC Set To Boost Nigeria’s Health Sector

Malnutrition: Dangote honours late brother by commissioning a therapeutic Food factory in Kano

7 officers injured, vehicle damaged as NDLEA arrests Taraba drug kingpin . As Marwa orders new operational guidelines to protect operatives on duty

Colexa Biosensor Limited Makes an Audacious Move to Transform Africa’s Healthcare System, commissions 1st In-Vitro Diagnostics (IVD) Factory in Sub-Saharan Africa

Experience Amazing Culinary Feast at the 2023 GTCO Food & Drink Festival

African Development Bank Group & Islamic Development Bank join forces to boost Africa’s health defense systems through the pharmaceutical industry

Stanbic IBTC Advocates Collaboration & Innovative Financing Solutions In Order To Boost Healthcare in Nigeria

Sterling Bank, NHEA recognize Nigeria’s Healthcare Champions

NDLEA intercepts N1.1billion travellers’ cheques, 10.89kg Cocaine at Lagos airport …Seizes 2.3million Tramadol tabs, 2,919 bottles of Codeine in Kaduna

NDLEA intercepts 101 parcels of Cocaine in Children duvets at Lagos airport …Seizes drugged Milo beverage in Edo; skunk in detergent containers at Enugu airport

How Nigerians spend $39.66bn on foreign education & medical tourism

2 drug dealers excrete 165 wraps of cocaine in NDLEA custody … Agency intercepts consignments going to Australia, China, Qatar, Ireland, Thailand; seizes 2,293kg substances, cash in Rivers, Ogun, Enugu raids

NDLEA intercepts 1.9million tablets of Tramadol, Codeine at Lagos airport …Arrests drug kingpin behind Ghana-bound 11.913kg Cocaine

Father of 4 arrested with 20.75kg black liquid cocaine in makeup mascara at Abuja airport …As NDLEA recovers in Ogun 865.2kg drugs smuggled from Benin Republic; 30,880 tablets of Tramadol, Diazepam, Exol-5 in Kaduna

NDLEA intercepts Tramadol, cash consignments from Pakistan, Austria, Italy at Lagos airport ….Seizes Heroin, others going to US, UK, Canada; recovers over 1,000kg in Kano, Abuja, Adamawa raids

Collective Responsibility can end HIV Transmission – Wigwe

Ghanaian, 2 Nigerians arrested at Enugu, Abuja airports with 9.9kg Cocaine, Meth …2 Nigeriens nabbed in Delta, 1million Tramadol capsules seized in Ondo, 453.673kg others in Anambra, Kogi

Destruction of 20tons drugs an indication of NDLEA’s resolve — Marwa

Gov Sanwo-Olu enlists support of PR Practitioners & Stakeholders to check the spread of Covid-19, promises to transform medical infrastructure in Lagos

8TH Lagos Public Relations Stakeholders’ Conference To Address Healthcare & Wellness In Nigeria

ASR Africa Grants N2.5 Billion To Kwara State Government To Build Oncology & Diagnostic Centre In Ilorin

UN Initiative & Ecobank Foundation To Prevent Chronic Malnutrition Among Children In Africa

CDC & TDB Signs $100 Million Short Term Finance Facility To Form Part Of CDC’s Response To Covid-19

Dangote takes ‘Staying Safe Together’ initiative to schools, women, others … Urges public to adhere to safety guidelines of Covid-19 prevention

COVID:19 – Capital Market Community Commends PTF …Donates Ambulance

CACOVID Donates N1.4 Billion Medical Equipment & Additional 26,400 Test Kits To Boost Covid-19 Testing Across Nigeria

“Ecobank’s Support will go a long way in cushioning the Effects of the Lockdown on our Citizens” – Babajide Sanwo- Olu

Oando & Other Local Oil Companies Collaborate in Fight Against COVID-19