Nigeria will begin administering the the second dose of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines on eligible Nigerians who received the first shots. Dr Faisal Shuaib, Executive Director of the Nationa ...

Lagos Health Commissioner Prof. Akin Abayomi has said the about 260,000 persons vaccinated against COVID-19 represents just one per cent of the state’s population. Abayomi, who spoke at the ministeria ...

  The Federal Government plans to issue a travel advisory within the next two days on inbound flights from India, Brazil and Turkey. This followed the escalation of new variants of COVID-19 virus in t ...

The Federal Government has resolved to introduce additional control measures to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 strain in India to Nigeria. The Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire, who disclosed thi ...

The Kano State Government on Thursday said 10 people had died and 400 others hospitalised after drinking a poisonous fruit juice. The state government had last month said the poisonous fruit juice cla ...

As part of steps to end the on-going strike that has paralysed many hospitals, the Federal Government has directed immediate payment of salary arrears of over 450 medical doctors. Those affected are m ...

China’s drug authority has approved for clinical trials an inhaled Covid-19 vaccine co-developed by domestic firm CanSino Biologics, the company said in a filing on Tuesday. The move comes after the N ...

"There will definitely be another surge at some point," says England's chief medical officer on the first anniversary of lockdown. The COVID crisis will cause a "long rain shadow" and there will "defi ...