Medical

Obong of Calabar, Edidem Ekpo Okon Abasi Out V, 18 paramount rulers of Cross River State and the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) have resolved to partner with the Ben Akak Foundation to the fight against COVID-19 in the state. ...

 Import and export of goods in the country will soon suffer a major setback if the Federal Government does not urgently address the issue of scarcity of foreign exchange that has confronted importers in recent times. It was learnt that ...

Lack of incentive and other challenges facing medical personnel in Kano State may jeopardise stakeholders’ efforts to curtail the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the state. Already medical personnel are abandoning the isolation centres set up by the ...

The Bayelsa State Task Force on COVID-19 has said that 140 blood samples sent to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC)-approved laboratory in Edo State between March and April 2020 had all tested negative. The co-Chairman of the state ...

The University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH) said it has expanded its services in the event that more cases of COVID-19 were reported in the state, which would require additional admissions. Chief Medical Director of UBTH, Prof Darlington Obaseki said ...

Immediate past Director General of Nigeria Employers Consultative Association (NECA), Segun Oshinowo, has advocated the need for the Federal Government to adopt a home-grown response to the COVID-19 pandemic. He noted that it was wrong for the country to use ...

Akwa Ibom State government has said that the state has only three positive cases of COVID-19. Chairman, COVID-19 Committee and Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Dr. Emmanuel Ekuwem, disclosed this during a press briefing in Uyo. According to him, ...

The deadly coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has claimed the life of Gian Saro-Wiwa, the only surviving son of the late environmentalist, Ken Saro-Wiwa, in the United Kingdom. His sister, Noo Saro-Wiwa, announced the death on her Facebook page. “We said goodbye to my ...

The African Union Economic, Social and Cultural Council (AU ECOSOCC) Nigeria office has urged China, France, Japan and India to write off Nigeria’s debt or allow a two-year moratorium on repayments. It also commended the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for ...

No fewer than six patients, who were held on suspicion that they have contracted COVID-19 in Akwa Ibom State, were yesterday cleared and discharged from the Isolation Centre at the Ibom Specialist Hospital, Uyo. Of the number, three of those ...