Work-related illnesses and injuries kill nearly two million people annually, largely due to long working hours, the UN said Friday, warning that the pandemic was likely...
Indonesia’s army has stopped imposing so-called “virginity tests” on female recruits, its chief said Thursday, following calls from rights groups to ban the invasive vaginal exams....
Coronavirus-linked deaths in Africa surged by 43 percent in the space of a week, driven by a lack of intensive-care beds and oxygen, the World Health...
The National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) on Thursday approved two more COVID-19 vaccines for use in Nigeria. They are Moderna and the...
….Makinde, SSG, others vaccinated Oyo State governor, ‘Seyi Makinde, the Secretary to the State Government, Mrs. Olubamiwo Adeosun, other government functionaries and frontline health workers,...
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday said Africa will receive nearly 90 million COVID-19 vaccine doses from COVAX in February 2021, “Africa has watched other...
With the recent emergence in the African region of new COVID-19 variants which seem to have higher transmissibility, the World Health Organization (WHO) calls on countries...
• tobacco responsible for 20% of deaths from coronary heart disease Every year, 1.9 million people die from tobacco-induced heart disease, according to a new...
TIME named Nigerian physician, Dr. Tunji Funsho to the 2020 TIME100, its annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world. The list, now...
“COVID-19 does not exist in Nigeria. The virus can be cured by eating garlic. The temperature in Nigeria will not allow it to thrive. These are...