Ikpeazu To Feature As Special Guest As NARD Holds NEC Meeting In Umuahia
Abia State governor, Dr Okezie Ikpeazu has been invited as Special Guest of Honour as the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors, NARD holds its July National Executive Council meeting in Umuahia, Abia State capital, ABN TV reports. Tagged 'Umuahia 2021' Chief Host of the event which commenced from Monday, July 26 — Saturday, July 31 is the Medical Director Federal...
Abia Emerges Best In Implementation Of COVID-19 Vaccination In South East
Abia State has been rated the best in entire Southeast Nigeria in the implementation of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine against COVID-19. This was made known by the Executive Director/Chief Executive Officer of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), Dr. Faisal Shuaib during the Covid-19 rollout vaccination review meeting held on Friday, July 16 at the NCDC Emergency Operation...
FG Orders Reactivation Of COVID-19 Isolation Centres Nationwide
Nigeria’s federal government has directed all Covid-19 Isolation Centres across the country to immediately activate their facilities in anticipation of a possible spike in infection. Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, gave the directive on Monday in Abuja at a media briefing on COVID-19 update. The move came as the government said it had identified 10 positive cases of COVID-19...
Buhari Departs To London For Medical Check-up, Summit
President Muhammadu Buhari will leave Abuja today for London to see his doctors and participate in the Global Education Summit on Financing Global Partnership for Education 2021-2025. This was contained in a statement by the president’s media adviser, Femi Adesina made available to ABN TV, titled, ‘President Buhari attends global education summit in London’, on Monday. According to the statement, the...
COVID-19 Third Wave: FG Shuts Down Parks In Abuja
The Federal Government has shut down various parks in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, as the country battles a second wave. Ikharo Attah, the Head, Media and Publicity of FCT Ministerial Committee on COVID-19 Enforcement, made this known in a statement on Wednesday, NAN reports. Mr Attah said the administration would not lose its guard on the control of the...
Nigeria Confirms 15 Cases Of Monkeypox
Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has registered 59 suspected cases of monkeypox with 15 confirmed, its director-general, Dr. Chikwe, said yesterday in Abuja. Ihekweazu was reacting to the Dallas, Texas resident who recently returned from Nigeria and tested positive to the disease. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that it was the first confirmed case of the virus in...
Monkeypox: US Confirms First Case Imported From Nigeria
The US Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has announced that a rare case of human monkeypox was detected in Texas. CDC made the announcement on Friday and said the illness was found in a U.S resident who recently travelled from Nigeria. The patient is currently hopsitalised in Dallas, Texas. The agency also stated that it was the first case of...
Nigeria To Receive Second Batch Of COVID-19 Vaccine Early August, Says Executive Director NPHCDA
As the country ends the first phase of its strategic COVID-19 vaccination plan, efforts are underway to receive 3,924,000 doses of Oxford/AstraZeneca by end of July or early August 2021 from the COVAX facility for the commencement of the second phase of the programme. Also expected to arrive the country in August is 3,930,910 doses of Pfizer-Bio-N Tech COVID-19 vaccine...
Sanitizers With Methanol Can Blind, Kill – NAFDAC Warns
As Nigeria battles the third wave of the deadly coronavirus pandemic, the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has warned Nigerians against the use of certain hand sanitizers. The warning is contained in a public alert titled “Recall of Hand Sanitizers by DiBAR Nutritional due to the presence of Methanol”. NAFDAC Director-General, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye said the agency received information from the US Food and Drug Agency (FDA) about the presence of methanol in some sanitizers. FDA noted that Nutritional...
Nigeria’s Polio-Free Status Still Intact, FG Assures Nigerians
Following reports in some sections of the media that there is an outbreak of a new polio variant in some states, the federal government has urged Nigerians not to panic, insisting that there is no case of Wild Polio Virus (WPV) anywhere in the country since the last case in 2016. Describing the report as a gross misrepresentation of the...
