Medical

Indications have emerged that children and people from Africa may have special protection against coronavirus. While a recent study has backed up claims that the virus was less severe in children and less likely to kill them compared to adults, ...

Delta State Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa has disclosed that the state government may be forced to review the 2020 budget due to the dwindling oil revenue occasioned by the outbreak COVID-19 and its effect on global economy. Okowa, who hinted that ...

Opens screening points in Kaduna as Bayelsa gov Diri lauds scheme The National Youths Service Corps (NYSC) has disclosed that it is doing everything possible to guide and guard corps members against contracting the dreaded coronavirus disease in camps across ...

The Lagos State Government has said four children from the same family and their teacher who arrived the country from the United States of America (USA) have been quarantined for coronavirus. Commissioner for Health, Professor Akin Abayomi, disclosed this at ...

Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Godwin Emefiele has said the apex bank is committed to full intervention in the health sector following outbreak of Coronavirus in the country. He stated this yesterday at a consultative round table ...

The Cross River College of Health Technology has embarked on an indefinite strike over suspension of Consolidated Polytechnics, Colleges of Education and Academic Salary Structures. In that regard, the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) and Senior Staff Association of ...

Varsity bars Chinese staff from returning to work Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu has confirmed that the second case of COVID-19 in the country is a Nigerian in Ogun State. He said the ...

Minister of State for Health, Adeleke Olurunimbe Mamora, has urged Nigerians to prioritise their personal and respiratory hygiene, insisting that the call became necessary due to discovery of a second case of coronavirus in the country. Confirming the case, Mamora ...

Vice Chancellor of the University of Ibadan, Professor Idowu Olayinka, has said necessary precautions are being taken to curtail the spread of COVID-19 otherwise called coronavirus around the university community. Speaking with journalists, he said the university’s authorities were making ...

Plateau State Government has reassured the people that there is no case of coronavirus was recorded in the state following a thorough investigation of a recent incident in Wase Council Area. This was the fulcrum of the state executive meeting ...