Health

Determined to check further spread of the rampaging COVID-19 pandemic, the Benue State government in partnership with WaterAid Nigeria has provided handwashing facilities…

The World Health Organization (WHO) has approved two versions of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine for emergency use, clearing the way for the vaccines to be shipped…

The Federal government says the evaluations of the recently received dossiers of four different COVID-19 vaccines were almost ready. The National Agency for Food and Drug…

The Federal government says it has placed all border agencies in the country on red alert following the outbreak of Ebola disease in Guinea Conakry. The Minister of…

Liberia’s President George Weah has ordered health authorities to heighten surveillance in the wake of an Ebola resurgence in neighbouring Guinea. Three people have died in…

Malawi's President Lazarus Chakwera has fired the co-chair of a taskforce overseeing government's response to the Covid-19 pandemic, amid allegations over misuse of 6…

Kaduna State has taken a major revolutionary step towards reversing the losses to COVID-19, which has cost the state 57 lives, as at Saturday. According to statistics from…

Treatment of tuberculosis in the country has been enhanced by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) with the donation of critical diagnostic equipment. A…

South Africa has put its rollout of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine on hold after a study showed "disappointing" results against its new Covid variant. Scientists say the…

The Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, on Monday, disclosed that 13 cases of the United Kingdom strain of the virus known as B117 have so far been detected in Nigeria.…