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...
By Ahmed Rahma The Lagos State Government has approved the sum of N200 million to support the federal government’s COVID-19 treatment centres in the state. The...
By Modupe Gbadeyanka Over 2,000 marginalised girls in secondary schools in Abuja, Lagos and Nasarawa States recently received menstrual period kits from Keystone Bank Limited. The...