Prof. Adedeji Onayale, Chairman, COVID-19 Response Committee of the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital Complex (OAUTHC), Ile-Ife in Osun, has advised Nigerians to get COVID-19 vaccination...
The World Bank Group has called on the Federal Government to impose special taxes on alcohol, cigarettes and sugar-sweetened beverages to improve primary healthcare. “If we...
The Minister of State for Health, Sen. Olorunnimbe Mamora, says the Presidential Task Force, which later metamorphosed into presidential Steering Committee on COVID-19, contributed to the...
African countries are stepping up measures to detect and control the spread of the Omicron variant. This became necessary as weekly new COVID-19 cases in the...
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Parliament says intense sensitisation is required to increase the rate of vaccination of ECOWAS citizens. Hon. Francis Alimikhena,...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says cases of the new Omicron variant have been reported in at least 23 countries in five of the six WHO...
The National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), says COVID-19 mass vaccination aims to increase uptake of the vaccine in Nigeria to rapidly achieve herd immunity....
The Association of Resident Doctors (ARD) in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) has urged all tiers of government to sincerely carry out the planned reform of...
Nigeria recorded 52 new cases of COVID-19 infection on Wednesday, bringing the country’s total to 214,270, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) said on Thursday...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said that HIV remained a major global public health concern in the last 40 years. Dr Matshidiso Moeti, WHO Regional Director...