Health

By Grace Udofia To prevent childhood malnutrition among children, Kaduna State, one of Nigeria’s 36 states, has embarked on intensive training for teachers of Early Child Care Development Centres (ECCD) on mainstreaming nutrition. The Permanent Secretary,...

By John Ikani African Union (AU) has implored producers of vaccines to give the continent a fair shot at market access as opposed to waiting for donor-funded doses to arrive. It also urged manufacturing nations to...

By John Ikani  The Nigerian Government has disclosed plans to carry out COVID-19 vaccination in churches on Sundays. Executive Director of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) Dr. Faisal Shuaib made the disclosure during...

  By Chioma Iruke The Nigerian Government has knocked the United Arab Emirates (UAE) over what it described as lopsided enforcement of Covid-19 protocols targeted at Nigerians. The country's Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika during a...

  By Chioma Iruke The Nigerian Government has relaxed the restriction on foreign travellers without evidence of payment for their COVID-19 PCR test. It would be recalled that the government had instructed that foreign travellers were...

By John Ikani  President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday appealed to the striking members of the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) to return to their duty posts, while negotiations continue to resolve the conflict. Buhari also...