…Calls on residents for responsiveness to take advantage By Moses Adeniyi Lagos State Government (LASG) has flagged off the COVID-19 Scales 0.3 Vaccination Campaign aimed at ramping up the records of the 25 per cent profile of its population who…
Kebbi State has injected N3 billion into the Nigeria COVID-19 Action Recovery and Economic Stimulus Programme (NG-CARES) in the state. Commissioner for Commerce and Industries, Alhaji Ibrahim Garba-Geza, made the declaration in Birnin Kebbi on Thursday at a one-day sensitisation…
The Kano State Government has revealed that it will collaborate with the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) to check open defecation. Permanent Secretary, Ministry for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Alhaji Ibrahim Ahmad-Sagagi, said this on Thursday while inaugurating the distribution…
Health facilities in the country have been given a 30-day ultimatum by the National Blood Service Commission (NBSC) to register their blood bank facilities with the commission or face sanctions. Dr Omale Amedu, the acting Director-General of the agency, gave…
The Osun State House of Assembly Committee on health has brought before the floor of the House the matter of monkeypox disease discovered in the State. The development was brought before the House under a matter of urgent public importance…
Ondo State Government on Thursday in Akure inaugurated a strategy tagged ‘Scale 3.02 to accelerate integrated COVID-19 vaccination’ in the state. Speaking during the ceremony, the State Commissioner for Health, Dr Banji Ajaka, said that COVID-19 remained a public health…
Wife of the President, Mrs Aisha Buhari, on Thursday urged stakeholders to engage government towards formulating policies that would promote breastfeeding as a practice in the country. Buhari made the call at the commemoration of World Breastfeeding Week with theme,…
…As health stakeholders launch biorepository laboratory Abimbola Abatta The upgraded biorepository laboratory at the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC)’s Central Public Health Laboratory in Yaba, Lagos was commissioned on Thursday. Nigerian NewsDirect reports that with support from the U.S.…
The New England Journal of Medicine says in China, 35 people in two provinces have fallen ill with a newly detected virus that is transmitted from animals to humans. A team of scientists from China, Singapore and Australia reported in…
The Enugu State Government has commenced an aggressive two weeks campaign on the natural and vast benefits of exclusive breastfeeding to babies, the nursing mothers and households. The Executive Secretary of Enugu State Primary Health Care Development Agency (ENS-PHCDA), Dr George…
