Emmanuel Addeh in Abuja Sonia Ekweremadu, the daughter of former Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu, appealed to the public yesterday to help donate a kidney to replace her damaged one. Sonia, whose parents were arrested in the United Kingdom while trying to find her a donor, revealed on her Instagram page that she had a rare kidney disease. The Nigerian …
According to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Lassa fever has killed 170 Nigerians in 25 states since the beginning of this year. This was revealed in the Centre’s situation report on Friday, along with the fact that there were 909 confirmed cases out of 6,547 suspected cases recorded during the period. “From week 1 to week 35 of …
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has announced 14 deaths in 10 states from suspected cases of yellow fever between January and July. The affected states included Abia (one), Bayelsa (one), Benue (one), Imo (one), Kaduna (one), Katsina (two), Kebbi (one), Taraba (two), Yobe (one) and Zamfara (three). The NCDC stated this via its official website on …
The Aliko Dangote Foundation, in partnership with the Kano State Government, UNICEF, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, has signed a three-way Memorandum of Understanding on routine immunisation in the state. The Memorandum of Understanding was first signed in 2012, when the Aliko Dangote Foundation, Kano State Government, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation agreed to work together …
The Tertiary Education Trust Fund, TETFund, says its COVID-19 vaccine project would be ready for its first clinical trial in November this year. The TETFund’s Ag. Director, Public Affairs, Abdulmumin Oniyangi, disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja. According to the statement, the project, which is a mega research grand intervention tagged ‘Accelerated Development of COVID-19 Vaccines Using …
By Hassan Zaggi Concerned by the migration of doctors, nurses and other medical workers to other countries for greener pasture, the Federal Government is making plans to come up with a policy to ensure that each doctor or nurse that leaves to the country will be replaced immediately. The Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire, who disclosed this at a media …
The COVID-19 vaccination programme in Borno is currently experiencing a significant setback due to a lack of timely payment of allowances to health workers/vaccinators, according to the findings. Borno state is one of the states in the country with the lowest number of people who have received the COVID-19 vaccine. Only about 6-7 percent of the state’s eligible population has …
According to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), 66 suspected cases of monkeypox were reported in Nigeria between January 1 and May 29, 2022. According to the centre, 21 suspected cases have been confirmed in nine states, with Adamawa State leading the way with five; Lagos, four; Cross River, two; FCT, two; Kano, two; Delta, two; Bayelsa, two; Rivers, …
