Health

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...

The Federal Government has reintroduced COVID-19 restrictions across all 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The Head of Technical Secretariat of the Presidential Steering Committee on COVID-19, Dr Mukhtar Mohammed who made the announcement...

World Health Organization, WHO, over the weekend approved for emergency use a COVID-19 vaccine from China's state-owned drugmaker Sinopharm. The move by Who is bolstering Beijing's push for a bigger role in inoculating the world as...

The World Health Organisation has said the B.1.351 variant of the coronavirus, first found in South Africa, is spreading in 23 African countries. The global health body which made this known via its Regional Virologist, Dr...