Infection

The wife of Ondo State Governor, Mrs Betty Anyanwu-Akeredolu, on Saturday admonished women to carry out a regular medical examination on their breasts as a way of reducing breast-cancer related deaths in the country.

Betty Akeredolu urges women to do regular checks on breast cancer

4 days ago

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) said seven more people have died from the coronavirus pandemic, bringing the country’s fatality toll to 2,647.

Nigeria records 176 new coronavirus cases, five deaths

5 days ago

FILE - In this July 30, 2021, file photo, Bradley Sharp, of Saratoga, N.Y., gets the Johnson & Johnson vaccine from registered nurse Stephanie Wagner in New York. Starting Thursday, Oct. 14, 2021, the Food and Drug Administration convenes its independent advisers for the first stage in the process of deciding whether extra shots of Moderna or Johnson & Johnson vaccines should be dispensed and, if so, who should get them and when. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

US regulator approves expansion of coronavirus vaccine boosters

6 days ago

Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) registered 1,867 new cases of COVID-19, in the last 24 hours, the highest single day rise since the index case was confirmed on Feb. 27, 2020.

Nigeria records 167 new coronavirus cases in nine states

7 days ago

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro attends a virtual global climate summit via a video link in Brasilia, Brazil April 22, 2021. Marcos Correa-Brazilian Presidency via REUTERS

Brazil senators want president charged for homicide over 95,000 coronavirus deaths

1 week ago

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) said seven more people have died from the coronavirus pandemic, bringing the country’s fatality toll to 2,647.

NCDC records 89 new coronavirus cases, 169 recoveries

1 week ago

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) said seven more people have died from the coronavirus pandemic, bringing the country’s fatality toll to 2,647.

NCDC records 125 new coronavirus infections, 33 deaths

1 week ago

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) said seven more people have died from the coronavirus pandemic, bringing the country’s fatality toll to 2,647.

Nigeria records 167 fresh coronavirus cases, two more deaths

2 weeks ago

A building of the Nigeria Centre For Disease Control (NCDC) is pictured, amid the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Lagos, Nigeria May 7, 2020. REUTERS-Temilade Adelaja

NCDC releases Nigeria’s coronavirus lockdown data

2 weeks ago

The new emir of Kano, Alhaji Aminu Ado Bayero, has reacted to the mass deaths recorded in Kano State.

Kano emir tasks subjects on coronavirus vaccine

2 weeks ago

Bill Clinton

Ex-US president hospitalised

2 weeks ago

A Doctors Without Borders (MSF) health worker in protective clothing carries a child suspected of having Ebola. John Moore-Getty Images

New Ebola case confirmed in eastern Congo

3 weeks ago

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) said seven more people have died from the coronavirus pandemic, bringing the country’s fatality toll to 2,647.

Nigeria records 297 new coronavirus infections, nine deaths

3 weeks ago

Donald Trump sues to reinstate his Twitter account

4 weeks ago

Positive clinical trial results for Merck & Co’s (MRK.N) experimental antiviral COVID-19 pill reverberated through the healthcare sector on Friday, sending the drugmaker’s stock price soaring while denting high-flying shares of vaccine companies and makers of other coronavirus therapies.

Vaccine firms’ shares nosedive with success of Merck’s coronavirus pill

4 weeks ago