I am very saddened to confirm the death of a health worker on 18 April who had contracted the new coronavirus disease COVID-19. Our sincerest condolences...
He turned up with flu-like symptoms at a medical centre in Ogun state in the southwest of Nigeria. Dr Amara Allison, who was on duty, examined...
The worldwide number of fatalities from the novel coronavirus rose to 63,437 on Saturday, according to a tally compiled by AFP at 1900 GMT from official...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has dismissed the message spreading on social media that “COVID-19 is airborne, saying the claim is incorrect. WHO also explained that...
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has revealed that tea vendors popularly known as `Maishayi’ now mix intoxicating drugs in the...
In an effort to reach and vaccinate every eligible child in Nigeria, the World Health Organization (WHO) is supporting the Government to vaccinate as many Almajiri...
More women and their children are surviving today than ever before, according to new child and maternal mortality estimates released yesterday by United Nations groups led...
Following the 2016 crisis in the South West and North West Anglophone regions of Cameroon, a large number of asylum seekers fled into neighboring villages in...
“I have been injecting drugs for a long time and we share syringes,” says Ali who lives in the suburb of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT)...
The Department of Health Planning, Research and Statistics of the Federal Ministry of Health (FMoH) in collaboration with the World Health Organization(WHO) has successfully updated and...