Health

Nigeria Explains Reasons For Relatively High Covid Cases in NYSC Camps

Nigeria's Minister of Information and Culture Lai Mohammed says consistent testing and non-compliance to non-pharmaceutical interventions are responsible for high…

3 years ago

Nigeria to Start Manufacturing Covid Vaccines By 2022, Herbal Drugs Undergoing Clinical Trials

Nigeria’s federal government says it’s planning to commence local manufacturing of COVID-19 vaccines in the next 12 months. This is…

3 years ago

UNICEF: Over 50% of Nigerian Children under Five Unregistered

United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has decried low birth registration in the country, stating that more than 50% of the…

3 years ago

Guinea Confirms West Africa’s First Highly Infectious Marburg Virus Case

Health authorities in Guinea have confirmed West Africa’s first case of the Marburg virus, a highly infectious disease that’s in the same…

3 years ago

Nigeria: Panic as Cholera Claims 60 Lives in Northwest Katsina State

Panic has gripped the residents of Katsina State, following the outbreak of Cholera, which has killed no fewer than 60…

3 years ago

Nigeria to Administer Second Batch of Covid Vaccines Starting Tuesday

Nigeria will begin administering the second batch of COVID-19 vaccines from August 10, the Presidential Steering Committee (PSC) on COVID-19…

3 years ago

A Beginner’s Guide to Intermittent Fasting

Intermittent fasting is not a diet, it is a meal timing plan. What you’re doing is focusing on a specific…

3 years ago

African Union Begins Distribution of 400 Million Covid Jabs

The African Union has commenced the distribution of 400 million Covid vaccines to member states, South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa…

3 years ago

WHO Calls for Booster Shot Pause to Vaccinate Poorer Nations

The World Health Organization (WHO) has called for a suspension on booster vaccines for Covid-19 until at least the end…

3 years ago

Medical Charity MSF Withdraws From Cameroon

International, independent organisation, Medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has withdrawn from Cameroon’s North-West region after months of suspension by…

3 years ago