Some Nigeria Health workers don't know what HPV vaccines are
Some healthcare providers in Lagos' primary healthcare centers claim to be unaware of the Human Papilloma Virus vaccine. Healthcare staff — mostly nurses — offered contradictory advice on the prescribed vaccine dose in other facilities visited by our reporter, and one worker at one of the public hospitals demanded a bribe before she would administer the vaccine.

15% of cancer deaths are from Nigeria- Osibanjo
Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo The Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo has on Monday said the country contributes 15 per cent death from cancer disease in West Africa. This he said informed the decision of the Federal government to introduce the National Cancer Control Plan 2018 – 2022 where states are expected to follow suit in order to address the indices. Osinbajo stated this while laying the foundation of the first state-owned Cancer Centre at the Muhammadu Buhari Specialist Hospital in Kano State.

Why we are building first cancer treatment centre ― Osinbajo
President. Yemi Osinbajo laying the foundation of the first state-owned Cancer Centre in Kano, January 14th, 2020. The Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo has on Monday while laying the foundation of the first state-owned Cancer Centre at the Muhammadu Buhari Specialist Hospital in Kano State said the country contributes 15 per cent death from cancer disease in West Africa. This he said informed the decision of the Federal government to introduce the National Cancer Control Plan 2018 – 2022 where stat

Nigeria needs to get more serious on cancer
NIGERIA’ S cancer burden is painfully high , no thanks to a poor health system . So when the Chairman , House of Representatives Committee on Health Institutions, Paschal Obi , urged the Federal Government afresh to build more cancer centres in the country , it served as another poignant reminder of how the government allows situations to degenerate . It is time to take stock of what we do know and what we do not , and consider the best approach to the prevention and treatment of cancer. Cancer remains a dreaded
