This Act makes the necessary provisions to regulate the imposition of quarantine and to make other provisions for preventing the introduction or spread in/from Nigeria any dangerous infectious diseases.

This is an Act to establish a Board for the control and practice of the profession of optometry and dispensing optics in Nigeria including the registration of members, offences of unregistered persons, training requirements, professional discipline and other miscellaneous regulations.

This is an Act to set up a management board for the Orthopaedic Hospitals established by the Federal Government and provide for their affiliation with teaching hospitals. The Act notes the financial provision for the Board and the discipline of staff and students and other general matters.

This is an Act for the set-up of the Nigerian Red Cross Society highlighting its power and purpose in Nigeria and for other related matters.

This is an Act for the creation of the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria for the registration of nurses and midwives in Nigeria and State Nursing and Midwifery Committees and to provide for the discipline of nurses and midwives in Nigeria and all other related matters.

This is an Act to set up a National Medical College authorised to conduct examinations in the various specialized branches of medicine, surgery, obstetrics and gynaecology and dental surgery and other connected matters.

This is an Act to establish the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria. The Act outlines the function of the Council, governance and financial provisions. The Act also specifies the guideline for the registration of medical practitioners and dental surgeons as well as a Disciplinary Tribunal for the discipline of members

This is an Act to establish the Medical Rehabilitation Therapists Registration Board to regulate the activities of rehabilitation therapists including registration, training, professional discipline and other miscellaneous regulations.

This is an Act to set up a Board for the control and practice of the profession of health records management including the training, professional discipline and other miscellaneous regulations.

This is an Act to establish the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency to enforce laws against the cultivation, processing, sale, trafficking and use of hard drugs and to empower the Agency to investigate persons suspected to have dealings in drugs and other related matters.

This is an Act for the creation of the National Eye Centre at Kaduna for the prevention and cure of eye defects and diseases and to establish a Board including the function and composition for the governance of the centre and other connected matters.

This policy by the Nigerian Government is based on an overall strategy by the Nigerian Government to reduce maternal morbidity and mortality rate in Nigeria to achieve a modern contraceptive prevalence rate of 27 per cent. The blueprint provides policy guidance on service delivery, supplies management, behavioural change, regulations and financing.

This policy highlights the strategy adopted by the Federal Ministry of Health and stakeholders in training Family Planning (FP) workforce especially service providers, in On-the-Job Training (OJT). The policy is to enable health service providers to learn at the service delivery point, ensuring knowledge, skills and attitude transfer to deliver quality healthcare services. The policy is also to reduce the cost of capacity building while ensuring less disruption of service delivery processes.

This National Guideline by the Ministry of Health is aimed at ensuring quality and cost-effectiveness of health service delivery in Nigeria for effective and efficient family planning method mix across the country.

This guidance by the Ministry of Health is to ensure the delivery of quality reproductive health services in Nigeria in line with 2008 WHO Medical Eligibility Criteria (MEC). The goal of the guidance is to improve the technical competence and confidence of service providers and to increase the quality and access to family planning services for all Nigerians.

This is an Act outlining a National Drug Formulary and Essential Drugs List and to prohibit the importation into and manufacture in Nigeria of any drug not listed therein.

This Act makes provision for the regulation of pharmaceutical chemists.

This plan made legal and regulatory provisions that define the procedures, regulations, guidelines and codes of conduct relating to the procurement, storage, distribution and use of medicines and other healthcare products/laboratory commodities in Nigeria.

The overall goal of this health policy is to strengthen Nigeria’s Health System, particularly the primary health care sub-system, to deliver quality effective, efficient, equitable, accessible, affordable, acceptable and comprehensive health care services to
all Nigerians.

Female Genital Mutilation is a serious human rights violation of women and girls that has grave health consequences. It violates articles 3 and 5 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Therefore, this revised FGM policy is designed to eliminate the practice of female genital mutilation in Nigeria in order to improve the health and quality of girls and women.