The Minister of Women Affairs, Mrs. Pauline Tallen, has promised to collaborate with National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) to tackle human trafficking, prostitution and child labor in the country. The information is in a statement…
Mr Chinedu Aruah, an Oncologist with the National Hospital, Abuja, says compared to other other countries, cancer treatment in Nigeria is relatively affordable. Aruah, who is also the Head of Department, Radiation and Clinical Oncology of the the hospital, disclosed…
Dr. Bamidele Mustapha, the Medical Director of Epe General Hospital, has appealed to prominent sons and daughters of the community as well as corporate organizations to assist in providing sources of steady power supply within the hospital premises. Mustapha made…
The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, says the first batch of COVID-19 vaccines from Covax will arrive in Nigeria from February. Ehanire made this known on Monday in Abuja at the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 national briefing. The minister,…
Abimbola Abatta, Osogbo Osun State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Rafiu Isamotu, has charged the residents of the state to strictly comply with COVID-19 protocol, adding that the B117 strain of the COVID-19 kills faster. Earlier, Osun State had discovered five…
Kano State Government says it enrolled 526 leprosy patients for basic healthcare under the State Contributory Healthcare Management Agency in 2020. The Commissioner for Health, Dr Ibrahim Tsanyawa, made this known on Monday in Kano at a news conference to…
Researchers at the University of Ilorin have revealed the specific mechanism of how an active ingredient in the pineapple plant, Bromelain, works in mitigating the effects of the COVID-19 on people. A Ph.D. researcher, Ahmed Olalekan-Bakare, gave insight to the …
Osun Government has called on residents of the state, especially those with traits of sickness, to go for COVID-19 test as the number of coronavirus cases in the state was increasing. Dr Rafius Isamotu, Osun Commissioner for Health and Prof.…
The Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) on Sunday said that the COVID-19 Health Protection Regulation 2021 law would help to curb the spread of the pandemic across the country. Prof. Innocent Ujah, NMA President, said this while speaking with newsmen in…
Nigeria says the first batch of 100,000 doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine against COVID-19 is delayed because of “politics and logistics due to no fault of Nigeria.” The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed who disclosed this in…
