A bill seeking to establish the National Agency for Malaria Eradication (NAME) has passed the second reading in the senate.
Ned Nwoko, senator representing Delta north, sponsored the bill titled “A Bill for an Act to Establish the National Agency for Malaria Eradication and for Related Matters, 2025 (SB. 172)”.
The bill was presented during plenary on Thursday and seconded by Victor Umeh, senator representing Anambra central.
The bill, titled A Bill For an Act to Establish the National Agency for Malaria Eradication and for Related Matters, 2025 (SB. 172), was sponsored by Senator Ned Nwoko of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Delta North. It aims to address the staggering malaria death toll in Nigeria, which, according to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) 2024 report, accounts for over 184,000 out of 600,000 global malaria deaths annually—the highest in the world
PUBLIC HEARING FOR ESTABLISHMENTS OF NATIONAL AGENCY FOR MALARIA ERADICATION
