The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), on Tuesday afternoon announced three additional cases of the Omicron variant in the country, The new cases bring the total of the recently discovered variant of the COVID-19 virus in Nigeria to six. The NCDC in the statement signed by the Director-General, Ifedayo Adetifa further explained that the […]
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The World Health Organisation (WHO) says six countries, including Nigeria, accounted for around 50 percent of malaria deaths worldwide in 2020. The organisation disclosed this in its world malaria report released on Monday. According to WHO’s latest report, there was an estimate of 241 million malaria cases and 627,000 malaria deaths — mostly of children under […]
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Dr Akinwumi Adesina, President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), has said the travel ban on some African countries over Omicron, the new COVID-19 variant is “very unfair, non-scientific and discriminatory”. Adesina, who said this through his verified Twitter handle @akin_adesina, urged the western countries to lift the travel ban on the African countries He […]
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The Federal Government of Nigeria is set to reform the health sector, particularly, the primary healthcare services as it inaugurated a Committee on the Basic Health Care Provision Fund (BHCPF) with the aim of providing quality basic health care services to all Nigerians. The Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, represented by […]
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The secretary to the government of the federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha, says the federal government will soon make COVID-19 vaccination compulsory for civil servants. Speaking at a meeting of the health commissioners forum on Thursday in Abuja, Mustapha said the government wants civil servants to be vaccinated, considering that they sometimes represent Nigeria abroad. The […]
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Operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS), on Thursday, dispersed medical doctors, who were at the Sheraton Hotels, Abuja, to take part in the recruitment exercise organised by the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Health. Recall that it was reported on Tuesday, that medical consultants in their hundreds flooded the Ladi Kwali Hall at Sheraton […]
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The eleventh edition of the Guaranty Trust Annual Conference will hold on Tuesday and Wednesday, August 3 and 4, at the Muson Center, Lagos. Themed, “Life Beyond the Diagnosis,” the conference will feature in-depth conversations on supporting people living with autism facilitated by medical experts and specialists from around the world. Guaranty Trust has been […]
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Newly launched specialist life insurance company, Heirs Life Assurance (HLA) has partnered Avon Medical to organize a blood drive in commemoration of the 2021 World Blood Donor Day. The event, which was held on Monday, June 14, 2021, at the ultramodern Avon Medical Dialysis Centre in Ikeja, Lagos had individuals present to donate blood for those […]
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The MasterCard Foundation has announced that it will deploy $1.3 billion over the next three years in partnership with the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) to save the lives and livelihoods of millions of people in Africa and hasten the economic recovery of the continent. The Saving Lives and Livelihoods initiative will acquire vaccines […]
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The Government of Nigeria, on Saturday signed a Memorandum of Action (MoA) with striking National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) to end the ongoing action. The MoA was the second in a fortnight. The first one was signed on March 31, but was later rejected by the striking doctors, NAN reports. Minister of Labour and […]
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