The World Health Organisation, WHO, has appointed Nigerian professor of virology, Professor Oyewale Tomori. Naija News reports that Tomori was appointed as a member of its...
Dr Congo has been hit by an epidemic of meningitis after recording no fewer than 1,053 deaths of COVID-19 disease in the country. It was revealed...
The current Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Chikwe Ihekweazu has been appointed as an Assistant Director at the World Health Organization (WHO)....
The Director-General, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu has confirmed bird flu attack on seven states in the northern region of the country. The...
The United Kingdom has taken a mostly ‘painful’ decision by halting the recruitment of health and care workers from forty-seven countries of the world, including Nigeria....
Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State has revealed that Lagosians would start receiving the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine on Thursday, March 11. Sanwo-Olu noted that the state received...
A former lawmaker representing Kogi West in the Nigerian Senate, Dino Melaye has accused the Muhammadu Buhari-administration of importing the AstraZeneca COVID-19 Vaccine which is the...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has lamented the current situation in which only 10 countries of the world are engaged in administering COVID-19 vaccines. The world...
The World Health Organisation-led COVAX global initiative has disqualified Nigeria and eight other countries from getting the Pfizer vaccines following its inability to meet the standard...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has raised concerns over the new variants of coronavirus (COVID-19) in Africa. Naija News reports that South Africa recently detected a...
Tedros Ghebreyesus, the Director-General of the World Health Organization, has tested positive for coronavirus. The DG of WHO announced his status in a series of tweet...
The Chinese government has been approved by the World Health Organization (WHO) to administer its experimental COVID-19 vaccines to citizens. The development was disclosed on Friday,...
At least 264 suicide cases have been recorded in Nigeria within the last 4 years, an investigation to to mark ” World Suicide Prevention Day” today,...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has given its approval for the use of corticosteroid drugs for severe and critical COVID-19 patients. The approval follows the trials...
The World Health Organization on Friday noted that the Coronavirus pandemic may last for less than two years. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO chief noted that with...
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) have called on African governments to consider ways to open schools in the event...
A Nigerian soldier identified as Lance Corporal Ibrahim Babaginda, has been sentenced to 55 years imprisonment by the General Court Martial sitting in Abuja over culpable...
The coronavirus pandemic hit a horrific milestone yesterday as the world recorded cases of the infection surpassed 20 million. An Nigeria News official source revealed number...
Over 13,000 deaths and 305,000 recoveries have been recorded in Africa, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Office for Africa in Brazzaville, Congo. In a...
Bishop David Oyedepo, the founder of the Living Faith Church, a.k.a Winners Chapel, has been lambasted for claiming to heal some coronavirus (COVID-19) patients. Naija News...