Concerned with the dramatic rise in COVID-19 positive cases seen in the evolving fourth wave, the Lagos State Government has commenced prosecution of inbound international passengers...
In a bid to contain the spread of the COVID-19 Omicron variant in Nigeria, stakeholders in the health sector have urged Nigerians to strictly adhere to...
Good mental health is absolutely fundamental to overall health and well-being. The member representing Egor/Ikpoba Okha federal constituency in the National Assembly, Hon Jude Ise-Idehen...
Nigeria on Friday received 501,600 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine from the French government. The Executive Director of the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency (NPHCDA), Dr....
The agitation for the legalisation of Cannabis Sativa cannot succeed in Nigeria because the proliferation of illicit drugs often leads to crime, chaos and conflict, the...
Innocent Ujah, president of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), says the police should stop harassing medical doctors for treating patients with gun wounds. He says there...
Nigeria is missing as the United Kingdom (UK) relaxed its COVID-19 vaccine policy for more than 50 countries. This means that fully vaccinated Nigerians travelling to...
The NCDC revealed this information via its website on Sunday morning that the additional 138 infections brought the total of infections in the country to 206,064....
The daughter of Bauchi State Governor, Fatima Zara Bala, has revealed that she is living with Fibromyalgia. Fibromyalgia, also called fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS), is a long-term chronic...
184,529 treated cases have been discharged, while the death toll is now 2,552. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, (NCDC) has confirmed Four hundred and fifty-nine...
The Federal Government says the only condition to withdraw a court case instituted against striking members of the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) is for...
It has been revealed by the Nigeria Centre For Disease Control that the country’s total infection toll now stands at 195,052, with a fatality toll of...
It has been announced by the Nigeria Center for Disease Control, NCDC, that 444 cases of coronavirus in 20 states and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja....
Doctors in the employ of Ondo State Government have called off their indefinite strike after three months. The doctors, under the auspices of the National...
The United Nations has revealed that North Korea has rejected almost three million Covid-19 jabs offered to it. A spokesperson of the UN said the...
Eleven more people battling COVID-19 in Nigeria lost the fight to the disease on Wednesday as the nation’s toll rose to 2,480. The Nigeria Centre for...
The Borno State Commissioner for Health, Juliana Bitrus addresses a press conference on August 31, 2021. The Borno state government on Tuesday declared an...
The National Agency for Food, Drugs Administration and Control, NAFDAC, has cautioned the public against consuming liquid herbal medicine or concoction two weeks after its preparation....
Nigeria Records 53 More COVID-19 Deaths In 24 Hours A file photo showing a Nigerian taking the COVID-19 jab. Nigeria has recorded 53 deaths...
A Consultant Physician and Dermatologist at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja, Dr. Folakemi Cole-Adeife, says medicated, antiseptic soaps and liquids are bad for the...
The Federal Government has raised the alarm over the rising cases of the Delta variant of the COVID-19 in the country, especially in seven states. The...
Kidney failure will kill you in Nigeria. Did you say tufiakwa? Did I hear you say that it is not your portion? You can say that...
Nigeria posted more COVID-19 cases on Saturday, with Lagos State topping the chat in infections. The Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) said it registered 98...
Six states reported 1,786 suspected cases of cholera between June 20 and June 26, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), said in Abuja on Saturday....
Hadiza, 21, thought she had ‘toilet infection’ after experiencing itching and coloured vaginal discharge for weeks. She continued to buy drugs and creams but didn’t feel...
What is chronic kidney disease? Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) is a condition where kidney damage occurs gradually over a long period and can lead to permanent...
Fr Ejike Mbaka., the Spiritual Director of Adoration Ministries, Enugu, has reacted to the arrest of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi...
More than two million Nigerians have received the first dose of the Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, The National Primary Healthcare Development Agency declared in Abuja on Thursday....
Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire has disclosed that Nigeria currently has the highest burden of sickle cell disease in the world ahead of Democratic Republic of...
Representative of the World Health Organisation in Nigeria (WHO) Walter Kazadi has said that the threat of a third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic was real...
The Executive Director/CEO of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), Dr Faisal Shuaib, has said at least 680,345 have received the second doses of COVID-19 vaccines, while 1,978,808...
The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Akin Abayomi, says 107,283 persons have received the second dose of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine in the state as at June...
The Association of Civil Society in Malaria Control, Immunization and Nutrition (ACOMIN) has attributed the major issues affecting the fight against reducing the prevalence of malaria...
Stakeholders in the Nigerian health sector have been urged to forge a united action against Malaria with a view to eliminating the disease from the country....
The Federal Government has approved a 600 per cent increment in hazard allowance for senior health workers and 350 per cent for their junior counterparts. Minister...
The World Health Organization has come out to remind everyone that the world is not yet out of the Coronavirus pandemic yet, despite declining coronavirus infection...
The Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire, yesterday said a research finding published in 2021 by the Centre for the Study of the Economies of Africa showed...
The World Health Organization’s (WHO) Goodwill Ambassador for Leprosy Elimination, Japanese Government Goodwill Ambassador for the Human Rights of Persons Affected by Leprosy and Chairman Nippon...
The Federal Government has begun to administer the second dose of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine to eligible persons in the country. A total of 4,683 people...
Federal Government has warned practitioners of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) to desist or risk N500, 000 fine or four years imprisonment. The Oyo State Director, National...
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has suspended the ongoing five days warning strike of Kaduna State. Labour, in a statement by Comrade Segun Esan, the Secretary...
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) on Tuesday gave Janssen (Johnson and Johnson) COVID-19 vaccine the nod for conditional emergency use...
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Labour Organization (ILO) say long working hours are increasing deaths from heart disease and stroke. According to the...
Ekiti State Government on Sunday said it intends to produce of over one million metrics tonnes of rice within the next couple of years. Mr Olabode...
The World Health Organization issued a grim warning on Friday that the second year of Covid-19 was set to be “far more deadly”, as Japan extended...
Nigeria on Thursday recorded 53 new cases of the COVID-19 virus, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 165,612. The Nigeria Centre for Disease...
Two million doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine have been reserved for the second dose in the first phase of vaccination, the Federal Government stated on...
Nigerian medical doctors have again insisted that they do not need to have a doctorate to head teaching hospitals in the country. The doctors reaffirmed that...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) reported one more death in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of deaths from the disease in...
The India COVID-19 variant has been detected in Nigeria, leading to a call for concern. The PUNCH had earlier reported that the COVID-19 was detected by...