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The federal government recently alerted Nigerians on the outbreak of anthrax disease in some West African countries; anthrax is zoonotic disease that can be transmitted from animals to humans. BENJAMIN …
Health sector failure: Concerns over anthrax disease outbreak Read More
Yobe state primary Health Care Management Board (YSPHC) in collaboration with World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday organised 2021 Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention (SMC) state debriefing meeting in Damaturu, Yobe state. …
SMC: Yobe targeting 1m under 5 children in 2021- Umar Read More
As a result of the prevalence of heart-related diseases all over the world, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has come up with a new concept aimed at bringing down the …
On WHO’s antidote to heart-related diseases Read More
In the August 31, 2021, article in the “Global Voices” an online publication. there was a piece by one Nwachukwu Egbunike title: “Chinese firms in Nigeria face widespread labour abuse …
Global voices and the criminalisation of Chinese entrepreneurs Read More
A group of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) on the aiges of APC Legacy Awareness and Campaign (APC-LAC) has commended the firm responses of President Muhammadu Buhari-led administratiom to …
APC group lauds Buhari’s strategic responses to Covid-19 pandemic Read More
Nigerians are still groaning under the throes of food poisoning despite the government’s enlightenment campaigns against it; ELEOJO IDACHABA writes. Over and over again, the blames for food poisoning are …
Saving Nigerians from food poisoning Read More
Cholera has been having a toll on the lives and economy of the country in recent times. In this report, IDACHABA SUNNY ELEOJO takes a look at the challenge and …
NCDC and cholera challenge so far Read More
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) Tuesday submitted a cholera vaccination request to the International Coordinating Group (ICG) and the Global Task Force for Cholera Control (GTFCC). Director-General NCDC, …
NCDC partners GTFCC, ICG, NPHCDA on cholera vaccine Read More
The U.S. government, through the President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI), has donated 5 million insecticide-treated bed nets to Oyo state as part of a national campaign to provide enough nets for …
U.S. donates 5m nets to control malaria in Oyo Read More
No fewer than 93 people have died of cholera in Kaduna state between March and July 2021, the director, Disease Control, State Primary Health Care Board, Dr. Hamza Ibrahim Kaura, …
Cholera kills 93 in Kaduna Read More
The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) management has refuted a report by a news media on alleged red alert at the NYSC camp on positivity of 109 corps members, saying …
COVID-19: No corps member, camp official tested positive – NYSC Read More
The International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) has been awarded €22.8 million by the European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership and the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) to conduct …
Nigeria, Liberia, Sierra Leone for IAVI €22.8m Lassa vaccine trial Read More
The Chairman, Senate Commitee on Primary Healthcare and Communicable Diseases, Senator Chukwuka Utazi (PDP Enugu North ), has called on relevant authorities to be proactive in preventing the third wave …
COVID – 19: Utazi cries out over imminent third wave Read More
SAMSON BENJAMIN in this piece examines the implications of the 12am-4am curfew re-introduced by the federal government to curtail the spread of Covid-19 amidst fears of another lockdown. The federal …
Curfew: Anxiety as another lockdown looms Read More
Brazil’s Charles Oliveira rallied with brutal efficiency to knock out American Michael Chandler early in the second round at UFC 262 in Houston, Texas, on Saturday and be crowned new …
Breaking: Charles Oliveira triumphs over Michael Chandler, crowned UFC lightweight champion Read More
Statistics by the World Health Organisation (WHO) indicate that Tuberculosis, a pulmonary disease characterised by persistent coughing, killed more Nigerians in 2019 than the COVID-19 pandemic. The 2020 WHO ‘global …
TB kills more Nigerians than COVID-19, says NGO Read More
The federal government said Tuesday that state governments administering COVID-19 vaccines have been asked to stop the exercise if they use half of the doses allocated to them because the …
COVID-19: Why states were directed to halt vaccination halfway – FG Read MoreThe Nigeria Centre for Disease Control recorded 101 new cases of COVID-19 on Saturday, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 162,489. The health agency disclosed this …
COVID-19: 2 dead as Nigeria records fresh 101 infections Read More
The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) says it is working to ensure that each country in the continent vaccinates at least 60 per cent of its …
COVID-19: Africa CDC to vaccinate 60% of Africa’s population – Official Read More
A strange ailment that broke out some 10 days ago in Kano state has killed not less than three persons with some 284 others hospitalised in various medical facilities across …
Strange disease kills 3 in Kano, 284 others hospitalised Read More
…AstraZeneca vaccine has no side effects – NAFDAC,…We‘ll investigates side effects – NPHCDA,…Govt must develop tracking system to check fakes – Pharmacist,…We won’t suspend vaccination because some countries have – …
Covid-19 vaccines: Intrigues, fears Read More
About five years back, Ambassador Kayode Garrick brought Nigeria a present from Uruguay in form of some useful lessons on cattle development transformation in the post-modern world. He gave us …
Political economy of cows: A call for modern innovative approach, by Muhammad Sani Abdullahi Read More
The Presidential Task Force on Control of COVID-19 said Monday that it will roll out a verification platform next week to check the originality of results from anywhere in the …
PTF to launch verification platform for COVID-19 results as Nigeria records 29 cases of UK variant Read More
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, on Friday reported 27 coronavirus-related deaths in the country, bringing the total number of those who had succumbed to the deadly virus to …
COVID-19: Anxiety mounts as death toll rises in Nigeria, 27 dead in 24 hours Read More
As Nigeria continues to record increased cases of Covid-19 anxiety is mounting over safety of students as schools resume despite the second wave of the pandemic, ABDULRAHMAN ZAKARIYAU reports. The …
Schools resumption: Anxiety mounts over student’s safety Read More