Tag: NCDC

  By Peterside Rejoice The Chairman of the Senate Committee on the North Central Development Commission (NCDC), Senator Titus Zam, has accused Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan (PDP, Kogi Central) of ignorance…

Babatunji Wusu – 1,068 Lassa fever infections have been reported by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) in 112 local government areas throughout 28 states of the…

As the death toll from diphtheria has reached 40 thus far, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has confirmed 216 cases in the nation. The NCDC also…

Following the Ebola outbreak in the nation, Nigerians have been advised to refrain for the time being from non-essential travel to Uganda. Dr. Ifedayo Adetifa, Director-General of the Nigeria Center…

Martin Luther Agwai, a former chief of the defence staff, will preside over a public discussion on terrorism and the launch of a book about President Muhammadu Buhari’s foreign policy…

Nigeria has record new cases of COVID-19 variant, called Omicron among other growing list of countries. The Omicron variant was identified in three travellers from South Africa last week through…

The civil servants with no proof of COVID-19 vaccination and negative PCR tests are currently being denied access into the Federal Secretariat, Abuja. This is following after the Federal Government…

The appointment of  Chikwe Ihekweazu as an assistant Director-general of the World Health Organisation (WHO), as assumed by the Director-general, Tedros Ghebreyesus said, the appointment  will “further accelerate WHO’s work…

Stephen Karanja, a Kenyan doctor, who became a vocal anti-vaccine campaigner, has died after contracting COVID-19. Karanja died on Thursday in a high-dependency unit of a private hospital in Nairobi,…

The federal ministry of health has written its heads of departments and programmes over a recent resurgence of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in Guinea Conakry, capital city of Guinea.   In…