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As part of activities to commemorate World No Tobacco Day (WNTD) 2020, tobacco control groups in Nigeria have again pushed for the 100 per cent enforcement of the National Tobacco Control (NTC) Act 2015 and its recently gazetted Regulations, calling on the President Muhammadu Buhari's government to urgently enforce provisions that protect young people from…
June 1, 2020
Amid ongoing rancor between the United States of America on one hand and the People’s Republic of China and the World Health Organization, WHO on the other hand, President Donald Trump has announced the termination of its relationship with the health agency. Trump's decision to permanently terminate the US relationship with the WHO follows a…
May 30, 2020
182 new cases of the COVID-19 infections were recorded in Nigeria on Thursday. This development  takes the country’s total infections to 8,915 out of which 2,592 have been discharged and 259 losing their lives. The new statistics were confirmed by the specialist agency, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Twitter. Data from the…
May 29, 2020
After the United States suspended its funding for the World Health Organization, the organization has set up a foundation that will enable it to tap into new sources of funding, including from the general public. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus made this announcement on Wednesday. According to Ghebreyesus, the WHO Foundation is being created as…
May 28, 2020
A joint study by UNICEF and Save the Children, a Humanitarian Agency has revealed that the economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic could push as many as 86 million more children into poverty by the end of 2020. As a result, the total number of children affected by poverty worldwide would increase to 672 million,…
May 28, 2020
The World Meteorological Organization, UN’s weather agency has warned that COVID-19 is capable of amplifying the risks of what was expected to be a record-breaking hot summer in the northern hemisphere. The organization, therefore, urged governments to make plans to keep people safe during heatwaves without spreading the novel coronavirus. This is according to WMO…
May 26, 2020
The Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) confirmed 313 new Covid-19 infections and 5 deaths in the country on Sunday. So far, 7839 cases have been confirmed in 34 states and the Federal Capital Territory. The 313 new cases are reported from 17 states- Lagos (148), FCT (36), Rivers (27), Edo (19), Kano (13), Ogun…
May 25, 2020
The World Health Organization, WHO has raised an alarm that South America has become a new epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic with Brazil hardest-hit, while cases are rising in some African countries that so far have a relatively low death toll. This is according to Dr. Mike Ryan, WHO’s top emergency expert and Dr. Matshidiso…
May 24, 2020
Director General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease and Control (NCDC), Chikwe Ihekweazu has disclosed that recovered Covid-19 patients will now be discharged after testing negative once to the virus. Unlike the previous practice where patients must test negative twice before being certified as Covid-19 free, he said the number of tests have been reduced…
May 21, 2020
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As part of activities to commemorate World No Tobacco Day (WNTD) 2020, tobacco control groups in Nigeria have again pushed for the 100 per cent enforcement of the National Tobacco Control (NTC) Act 2015 and its recently gazetted Regulations, calling on the President Muhammadu Buhari's government to urgently enforce provisions that protect young people from…
June 1, 2020
Amid ongoing rancor between the United States of America on one hand and the People’s Republic of China and the World Health Organization, WHO on the other hand, President Donald Trump has announced the termination of its relationship with the health agency. Trump's decision to permanently terminate the US relationship with the WHO follows a…
May 30, 2020
182 new cases of the COVID-19 infections were recorded in Nigeria on Thursday. This development  takes the country’s total infections to 8,915 out of which 2,592 have been discharged and 259 losing their lives. The new statistics were confirmed by the specialist agency, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Twitter. Data from the…
May 29, 2020
After the United States suspended its funding for the World Health Organization, the organization has set up a foundation that will enable it to tap into new sources of funding, including from the general public. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus made this announcement on Wednesday. According to Ghebreyesus, the WHO Foundation is being created as…
May 28, 2020
A joint study by UNICEF and Save the Children, a Humanitarian Agency has revealed that the economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic could push as many as 86 million more children into poverty by the end of 2020. As a result, the total number of children affected by poverty worldwide would increase to 672 million,…
May 28, 2020
The World Meteorological Organization, UN’s weather agency has warned that COVID-19 is capable of amplifying the risks of what was expected to be a record-breaking hot summer in the northern hemisphere. The organization, therefore, urged governments to make plans to keep people safe during heatwaves without spreading the novel coronavirus. This is according to WMO…
May 26, 2020
The Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) confirmed 313 new Covid-19 infections and 5 deaths in the country on Sunday. So far, 7839 cases have been confirmed in 34 states and the Federal Capital Territory. The 313 new cases are reported from 17 states- Lagos (148), FCT (36), Rivers (27), Edo (19), Kano (13), Ogun…
May 25, 2020
The World Health Organization, WHO has raised an alarm that South America has become a new epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic with Brazil hardest-hit, while cases are rising in some African countries that so far have a relatively low death toll. This is according to Dr. Mike Ryan, WHO’s top emergency expert and Dr. Matshidiso…
May 24, 2020
Director General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease and Control (NCDC), Chikwe Ihekweazu has disclosed that recovered Covid-19 patients will now be discharged after testing negative once to the virus. Unlike the previous practice where patients must test negative twice before being certified as Covid-19 free, he said the number of tests have been reduced…
May 21, 2020
