The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has arrested a woman bound for Italy with 100 wraps of heroin at the departure hall of the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos.
The NDLEA Director, Media, and Advocacy, Mr. Femi Babafemi, disclosed...
The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), which facilitated the procurement of the Johnson & Johnson (J&J), Janssen Pharmaceuticals’ vaccine, says the vaccine costs Nigeria $7.50 as against $10 per dose.
The bank’s Regional Chief Operating Officer, Mr. Abdoulaye Kone, who disclosed...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Thursday ranked Nigeria’s COVID-19 response as the fourth-best in the world.
This was confirmed by WHO Country Representative, Dr Walter Mulombo, at an event on the arrival of the first consignment of 177,600 doses...
As physicians across several States joined the nationwide strike embarked by the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD), the management of Federal Medical Centre, Yola, has drafted in interns and corps members to salvage the health facility from total...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Wednesday says three new candidate drugs are being tested in the latest phase of global Solidarity clinical trials to find effective treatments against COVID-19.
The News Agency of Nigeria reported that the therapies —...
Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Professor Akin Abayomi, says 42 persons have died from COVID-19 related complications in the state between Aug. 1 and August 8.
Abayomi disclosed this in his Facebook account while giving the state’s COVID-19 update for...
The Federal Government while lamenting the increasing rates of avoidable deaths has disclosed that nine persons die of malaria every hour in Nigeria.
Timi Obot representing the Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire, disclosed this in Abeokuta on Monday during the...
The striking members of the Association of Resident Doctors in Ondo State have appealed to the Rotimi Akeredolu-led government to consent to their demands, which would enable them to return to their duty posts for the sake of the...
Rivers State University Teaching Hospital resident doctors have called off their one-week-old strike.
Chairman of the association at the hospital Dr. George Ela, disclosed this in a statement issued in Port Harcourt on Monday.
He said that the decision followed a...
Niger health minister, Idi Illiassou Mainassara, on Monday said the cholera outbreak in the southern part of the State has killed 12 people and infected 201 others across three regions with heavy rains helping to further spread the disease.
The...
