The federal government has said that it is collaborating with the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United States Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) to see how Nigeria can access the global stockpile of monkeypox...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) says one person has died of monkeypox in Nigeria. The last time Nigeria recorded a monkeypox death was in 2019. The NCDC, in a statement, said this year, as...
The Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Tedros Ghebreyesus, has been re-elected for another five-year term of office at the 75th World Health Assembly (WHA75) holding in Geneva, Switzerland. Ghebreyesus, who was first elected in...
The World Health Organization said it expects to identify more cases of monkeypox as it expands surveillance in countries where the disease is not typically found. As of Saturday, 92 confirmed cases and 28 suspected cases...
A recent study by the World Health Organisation (WHO) shows that the true number of COVID-19 infections in Africa could be as much as 97 times more than the official statistics. Since Africa saw its first...
Nigeria’s recorded the 17th straight day of zero deaths on Monday as new infections fell to just two cases, the lowest single day infection in 2022. The infections were logged in Kaduna and Rivers respectively. With...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday in Brussels, Belgium, welcomed the designation of Nigeria as one of the six countries in Africa designated as manufacturing bases for the COVID-19 vaccine and called for collaboration to address...
The United States, the World Health Organization's top donor, is resisting proposals to make the agency more independent, four officials involved in the talks said, raising doubts about the Biden administration's long-term support for the...
New infections in Nigeria on Wednesday were 1,355; with 311 recoveries and 1 death. So, the caseload is now 240374 confirmed cases, 213491 recoveries and 3028 deaths. The new cases were reported from 9 States and...
President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday flagged off the planned $300 million African Medical Centre of Excellence (AMCE) to be built in Abuja by the African Export–Import Bank (Afreximbank) and partners including the Bank of Industry, Kings...