World Health Organisation (WHO) Director General, Tedros Ghebreyesus, has expressed optimism that COVID-19 pandemic will end in 2022. Ghebreyesus said at a press briefing on Wednesday that it was two years ago, as people gathered…
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The National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) said yesterday that Lagos, Ogun, Oyo, Jigawa and Osun were the top five leading with high uptake and also contributed 36 per cent to the number of…
Health workers, including doctors, whose salaries were seized while enforcing the no-work, no-pay policy, got a reprieve yesterday. President Muhammadu Buhari ordered the Finance, Budget and National Planning Minister Zainab Ahmed to release the withheld…
Lagos State Commissioner for Health Prof. Akin Abayomi said yesterday that 1,912,394 doses of AstraZeneca and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines had been administered in the state. Abayomi stated this yesterday through its official Instagram account @profakinabayomi…
Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has shelved the proposed peace walk billed for this month. Sanwo-Olu, in his last address on Tuesday, invited some known faces of the #EndSARS protest in the state in October…
BioNTech and Pfizer (PFE.N) said yesterday that a three-shot course of their COVID-19 vaccine was able to neutralise the new Omicron variant in a laboratory test and they could deliver an upgraded vaccine in March…
Minister of Health Dr. Osagie Ehanire yesterday explained why one million doses of the donated COVID-19 vaccines given to Nigeria by some international donors expired and were eventual withdrawn from circulation. He assured Nigerians that…
Omicron, the new variant of COVID-19 pandemic, is taking its toll on the aviation sector in the country. Due to the global alert, measures by the United Kingdom, United States and Canada to curtail its…
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has said it destroyed N2 trillion worth of tramadol in a little over three years. The agency said between March and August this year,…
The Senate, on Tuesday, considered a Bill seeking to establish the National Metallurgical Training Institute in Onitsha, Anambra State. The National Metallurgical Training Institute (Establishment) Bill, 2021, which scaled second reading is sponsored by the…