Health

The president of the Nigeria Hypertension Society (NHS) Professor Ayodele Omotoso says one in every three Nigerian is hypertensive. The professor, who made the claim in a press statement issued to mark World Hypertension Day (WHD),...

The Federal Government over the weekend stated that it has administered over a million Nigerians with the first doze of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine. The National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) who disclosed this on...

India on Friday started inoculating its population with Russia's Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine, the jab's developers said. Sputnik in mid-April became the third vaccine to be approved by New Delhi along with the AstraZeneca shot -...

Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has listed Abia, Imo, Ondo, Ekiti and Anambra as states who still owe doctors backlogs of salaries and other statutory benefits. NMA President Prof. Innocent Ujah, made these known in Abuja during...

Sources claim the Covid-19 Strain currently racing India has now been found in Nigeria. The strain was detected by the African Centre of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Diseases in the Redeemers University, Ede, Osun State...

Nigerians who received their first shots of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine will soon be administered the second jab of the vaccine. Dr Faisal Shuaib, Executive Director of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), made...