By Ahmed Rahma Ghana on Wednesday, February 24, 2021, became the first country on the African continent to receive 600,000 AstraZeneca/Oxford doses of COVID-19 vaccine. The...
By Adedapo Adesanya As part of efforts to curb the proliferation of false COVID-19 PCR test results, the Lagos State Government has rolled out a verification...
By Adedapo Adesanya The Kano State Government, through its COVID-19 taskforce technical committee, has introduced a home-based care program to reach people in remote areas as...
By Adedapo Adesanya The Senate has moved to block revenue leakages from medical tourism by coming up with a bill aimed to reduce the number of...
By Ahmed Rahma The Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine developed by German firm, BioNTech, in partnership with Pfizer has been found to neutralise the South African variant of...
By Ahmed Rahma The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has approved the use of Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine in Nigeria. The agency...
By Ahmed Rahma The need to urgently address the rising cases of tobacco-related diseases among youths in Nigeria has been emphasised by experts in the health...
By Dipo Olowookere The management of Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) has said it would investigate an allegation that one of its personnel was involved...
By Adedapo Adesanya Nigeria has reportedly been axed from the list of countries eligible to get Pfizer vaccines from the World Health Organisation (WHO)-COVAX global initiative....
By Ahmed Rahma The Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, has disclosed that his agency and the African Centre for...