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Niger State recorded 100 cholera deaths from April to date in the 25 Local Governments Areas, Dr Muhammad Makusidi, Commissioner for Health has said. Makusidi, made this known in an interview with newsmen at the ongoing workshop for journalists, organised by Pathfinder International in Minna. He attributed the outbreak of cholera to open defecation and…
September 15, 2021
The National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), says 1,692,315 eligible Nigerian have received two doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines. The Executive Director, NPHCDA, Dr Faisal Shuaib, disclosed this at the briefing of the Presidential Steering Committee (PSC) on COVID-19 on Monday, in Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that this progress…
September 14, 2021
Dr Ifedayo Morayo Adetifa has been appointed as the new Director General of Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). Adetifa was appointed by Pressident Muhammadu Buhari to take over from Chikwe Ihekweazu, who recently got an appointment at the World Health Organisation (WHO). Here are five things to know about the new head of the…
September 7, 2021
Nigeria and other African states overseen by the African Regional Office of the World Health Organisation (WHO) are committed to ending all remaining forms of polio. The Regional Office has also presented a scorecard to track progress towards the eradication of the virus. The African Region was certified free of wild poliovirus one year ago,…
August 27, 2021
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) says that Nigeria’s COVID-19 infections on Wednesday stood at 188,880. A total of 637 additional infections and seven deaths were recorded on Aug. 25, the NCDC announced via its verified website on Thursday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), however, reports that the new infections indicate a decrease…
August 26, 2021
Govt Agrees To Pay N4.8bn Residency Training Fund In 7 days Barring any last minute changes, resident doctors in the country will soon call off their strike as the Federal Government and the Nigerian Medical Association, (NMA) and other stakeholders in the medical sector on Saturday reached an agreement over the 12-point demands put forward…
August 22, 2021
Director-General, National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye is seeking the maximum penalty for drug counterfeiters from the judiciary. She said this on Wednesday, August 18 during the South-West Zonal Destruction of Expired, Counterfeit, Substandard and Falsified Medical Devices and other Unwholesome Regulated Products. Adeyeye said the penalty will…
August 19, 2021
Agency Reports A study by Oxford University has found that protection from either of the two most commonly used COVID-19 vaccines against the now prevalent Delta variant of the coronavirus weakens within three months. It also found that those who get infected after receiving two shots of either the Pfizer-BioNTech or the AstraZeneca vaccine may…
August 19, 2021
President Muhammadu Buhari, alongside other members of his delegation to the global education submit and medical trip to London, UK, will go into isolation over COVID-19 concerns. The Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to the President, Garba Shehu made this disclosure. According to Shehu, while speaking with The Guardian, the President, Minister of…
August 15, 2021
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Niger State recorded 100 cholera deaths from April to date in the 25 Local Governments Areas, Dr Muhammad Makusidi, Commissioner for Health has said. Makusidi, made this known in an interview with newsmen at the ongoing workshop for journalists, organised by Pathfinder International in Minna. He attributed the outbreak of cholera to open defecation and…
September 15, 2021
The National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), says 1,692,315 eligible Nigerian have received two doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines. The Executive Director, NPHCDA, Dr Faisal Shuaib, disclosed this at the briefing of the Presidential Steering Committee (PSC) on COVID-19 on Monday, in Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that this progress…
September 14, 2021
Dr Ifedayo Morayo Adetifa has been appointed as the new Director General of Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). Adetifa was appointed by Pressident Muhammadu Buhari to take over from Chikwe Ihekweazu, who recently got an appointment at the World Health Organisation (WHO). Here are five things to know about the new head of the…
September 7, 2021
Nigeria and other African states overseen by the African Regional Office of the World Health Organisation (WHO) are committed to ending all remaining forms of polio. The Regional Office has also presented a scorecard to track progress towards the eradication of the virus. The African Region was certified free of wild poliovirus one year ago,…
August 27, 2021
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) says that Nigeria’s COVID-19 infections on Wednesday stood at 188,880. A total of 637 additional infections and seven deaths were recorded on Aug. 25, the NCDC announced via its verified website on Thursday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), however, reports that the new infections indicate a decrease…
August 26, 2021
Govt Agrees To Pay N4.8bn Residency Training Fund In 7 days Barring any last minute changes, resident doctors in the country will soon call off their strike as the Federal Government and the Nigerian Medical Association, (NMA) and other stakeholders in the medical sector on Saturday reached an agreement over the 12-point demands put forward…
August 22, 2021
Director-General, National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye is seeking the maximum penalty for drug counterfeiters from the judiciary. She said this on Wednesday, August 18 during the South-West Zonal Destruction of Expired, Counterfeit, Substandard and Falsified Medical Devices and other Unwholesome Regulated Products. Adeyeye said the penalty will…
August 19, 2021
Agency Reports A study by Oxford University has found that protection from either of the two most commonly used COVID-19 vaccines against the now prevalent Delta variant of the coronavirus weakens within three months. It also found that those who get infected after receiving two shots of either the Pfizer-BioNTech or the AstraZeneca vaccine may…
August 19, 2021
President Muhammadu Buhari, alongside other members of his delegation to the global education submit and medical trip to London, UK, will go into isolation over COVID-19 concerns. The Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to the President, Garba Shehu made this disclosure. According to Shehu, while speaking with The Guardian, the President, Minister of…
August 15, 2021
