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Nigeria has joined a groundbreaking all-female African consortium to develop an HIV vaccine, leading in the BRILLIANT study to create a homegrown solution to combat the virus and reshape HIV prevention across the continent.

Top officials and experts gathered in Plateau state on Tuesday to tackle Nigeria’s policy challenges, with the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS) leading discussions on improving implementation for national progress.

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has sounded the alarm over a potential surge in malaria cases in Borno State, Nigeria, following recent devastating floods. The warning comes as world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) stress the urgent need for increased funding to combat malaria globally.

For nearly a week, the kidnapped UNIJOS and UNIMAID medical students have endured harsh conditions in captivity, while their families scramble to raise the ₦50 million ransom demanded by the abductors. Meanwhile, police rescue efforts have been criticised as slow.

David Daser, the founder of nHub, northern Nigeria’s first innovation hub, and the initiator of the now defunct Code Plateau by PICTDA, has been appointed by President Bola Tinubu as the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Digital Bridge Institute (DBI), an international centre for ICT studies established by the Nigerian Communications Commission in 2004.

Bandits demand ₦50 million ransom for 20 kidnapped medical students from UNIJOS and UNIMAID, family sources tell JoeyOffAir.

Some medical students from the University of Jos and the University of Maiduguri are feared abducted in Benue State while traveling to Enugu for the Federation of Catholic Medical and Dental Students’ convention.

Nigerian Medical Laboratory Scientist Odinaka Kingsley Obeta has been appointed as Co-Chair of the newly established Youth Workstream under the RBM Partnership to End Malaria, a global initiative aimed at empowering young people in the fight against malaria.

Last week, the Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution (IPCR), Tomruk iHub Multiverse, and DAFUDA hosted a two-day training to equip stakeholders to shield security sector from fake news.