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Tuberculosis kills over 162,000 Nigerians annually, the Nigerian Thoracic Society (NTS) has disclosed. The group made the disclosure while commemorating the 2021 World Tuberculosis Day yesterday, March 24, with the theme: "The Clock is ticking." According to Prof. Prince Ele, President of the NTS, tuberculosis is the world's deadliest infectious killer, adding that over 430,000…
March 24, 2021
Former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, has urged the federal Government to declare the Fulani Nationality Movement (FUNAM), a terrorist organisation and arrest or eliminate its members in Nigeria. Describing the group as a foreign-sponsored group affiliated with ISIS West Africa, Fani-kayode said the plan of the group is to plunge the country into…
March 23, 2021
The AstraZeneca vaccine has been administered on 122,410 Nigerians, a spokesman for the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 has said. Dr Faisal Shuaib, the Executive Director of, National Primary Health Care Development Agency ((NPHCDA), said this while speaking at the National PTF briefing in Abuja. He said only Kogi, Kebbi, Zamfara and Oyo State…
March 23, 2021
CAPPA To Sanwo-Olu: Probe Past Spendings In State’s Water Sector Since 1999 The decades-old water crisis in Lagos has worsened in recent times, leaving millions of residents without safe and portable water to battle the ravaging Covid-19 pandemic, a report by Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA) has revealed. The report which was presented…
March 23, 2021
Seeks Speedy Enactment Of Regulations To Stop 'Time Bomb' Among Nigerians, little is known about the 'killer' trans fat, alternatively referred to as 'bad fat' in food, yet the toxic chemical is in the meals consumed daily by a far majority of the Nigerian population estimated to be over 200 million people. Described as a…
March 20, 2021
By Hamilton Nwosa(Head, The New Diplomat’s Polling, Research & Data desk) The Kano State government, on Tuesday, confirmed three persons dead and 284 others infected in the outbreak of a strange disease. The Commissioner for Health, Aminu Ibrahim-Tsanyawa, who disclosed this at a press conference said the infected persons had been admitted into 25 health…
March 16, 2021
Some residents of Enugu State have expressed mixed feelings concerning the ongoing COVID-19 vaccination in the State. Some of them, who spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in separate interviews, said that they preferred provision of food, security and other social amenities to the vaccine. Mrs Blessing Eze, a teacher, said…
March 15, 2021
The arrival of the first batch of COVID-19 vaccine to Nigeria has been a source of joy to many; especially those who watched President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on National Television take their first shots. The public demonstration of receiving the vaccine was meant not only to create awareness but also remove…
March 14, 2021
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday approved Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine, after already authorising the jabs made by Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca. “Every new, safe and effective tool against Covid-19 is another step closer to controlling the pandemic,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a statement. The news comes after the single-dose jab…
March 14, 2021
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Tuberculosis kills over 162,000 Nigerians annually, the Nigerian Thoracic Society (NTS) has disclosed. The group made the disclosure while commemorating the 2021 World Tuberculosis Day yesterday, March 24, with the theme: "The Clock is ticking." According to Prof. Prince Ele, President of the NTS, tuberculosis is the world's deadliest infectious killer, adding that over 430,000…
March 24, 2021
Former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, has urged the federal Government to declare the Fulani Nationality Movement (FUNAM), a terrorist organisation and arrest or eliminate its members in Nigeria. Describing the group as a foreign-sponsored group affiliated with ISIS West Africa, Fani-kayode said the plan of the group is to plunge the country into…
March 23, 2021
The AstraZeneca vaccine has been administered on 122,410 Nigerians, a spokesman for the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 has said. Dr Faisal Shuaib, the Executive Director of, National Primary Health Care Development Agency ((NPHCDA), said this while speaking at the National PTF briefing in Abuja. He said only Kogi, Kebbi, Zamfara and Oyo State…
March 23, 2021
CAPPA To Sanwo-Olu: Probe Past Spendings In State’s Water Sector Since 1999 The decades-old water crisis in Lagos has worsened in recent times, leaving millions of residents without safe and portable water to battle the ravaging Covid-19 pandemic, a report by Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA) has revealed. The report which was presented…
March 23, 2021
Seeks Speedy Enactment Of Regulations To Stop 'Time Bomb' Among Nigerians, little is known about the 'killer' trans fat, alternatively referred to as 'bad fat' in food, yet the toxic chemical is in the meals consumed daily by a far majority of the Nigerian population estimated to be over 200 million people. Described as a…
March 20, 2021
By Hamilton Nwosa(Head, The New Diplomat’s Polling, Research & Data desk) The Kano State government, on Tuesday, confirmed three persons dead and 284 others infected in the outbreak of a strange disease. The Commissioner for Health, Aminu Ibrahim-Tsanyawa, who disclosed this at a press conference said the infected persons had been admitted into 25 health…
March 16, 2021
Some residents of Enugu State have expressed mixed feelings concerning the ongoing COVID-19 vaccination in the State. Some of them, who spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in separate interviews, said that they preferred provision of food, security and other social amenities to the vaccine. Mrs Blessing Eze, a teacher, said…
March 15, 2021
The arrival of the first batch of COVID-19 vaccine to Nigeria has been a source of joy to many; especially those who watched President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on National Television take their first shots. The public demonstration of receiving the vaccine was meant not only to create awareness but also remove…
March 14, 2021
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday approved Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine, after already authorising the jabs made by Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca. “Every new, safe and effective tool against Covid-19 is another step closer to controlling the pandemic,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a statement. The news comes after the single-dose jab…
March 14, 2021
