Parliament is reviewing a new healthcare services bill intended to update Rwanda's health legislation, last revised in 1998. The proposed law introduces changes aimed at improving access, patient ...

The Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, announced passage of the bills after a majority of the senators supported them.

In recent years, severe flooding has posed a significant challenge to delivering seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) medicines, threatening access to life-saving malaria prevention for children ...

The Presidency has described reports of a growing opposition coalition ahead of the 2027 general elections as a hallucination, insisting that no credible political party or figure has endorsed such a ...

ExxonMobil's quest to increase production is at one with Nigeria's aspiration to ramp up output to more than 2 million bpd this year after hitting a ten-year low in 2023.

"Nigerians are now dealing with diseases that were once considered 'Oyibo sickness.' Obesity, diabetes, hypertension, and cardiovascular diseases now rank among the leading causes of death," an ...

PREMIUM TIMES health reporter, Mariam Ileyemi, has been selected for the 2025 Africa Health Communications Fellowship (AHCF), a programme organised by fraycollege of Communications, South Africa.

The Office of the Ombudsman has raised concerns over the legality of the Okahandja curfew recently announced by president Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah in response to the recent murder cases at the town.

The Ministry of Health and Social Services has attributed the medicine shortage to a lack of adequate medicine storage facilities in the country.