Medical

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has alleged that the COVID-19 pandemic has further exposed Federal Government’s Social Intervention Programme (SIP) as a fraud. It claimed that rather than deploy the programme to benefit the Nigerian people, the SIP was being ...

As part of efforts to contain the spread of coronavirus in the country, the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) has started admitting persons who have tested positive for the virus. Before now, there have been concerns that the COVID-19 positive ...

As SEMA begins distribution of foodstuff to councils Bayelsa State Governor Douye Diri has signed Executive Order on COVID-19. Acting Chief Press Secretary, Daniel Alabrah, said the Executive Order entitled ‘Bayelsa State Infectious Disease (Emergency Prevention) Regulation 2020’ was based ...

The Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC) has donated medical items, including personal protective equipment (PPE), to the Edo government to check the spread of the ailment in the state. Worth millions of naira, the goods were handed over to the ...

President of the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD), Dr. Aliyu Sokomba has confirmed that a medical professional treating COVID-19 patients at the Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital (ISTH) in Edo State had contracted the disease. In a live programme monitored ...

To effectively combat incidences of COVID-19, the Enugu State government has unveiled four isolation and treatment centres, disclosing that it was planning to open other such facilities across the state. Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi stated yesterday after an assessment of the ...

INTELS Nigeria Limited has donated two facilities to the Port Health Services (PHS) of the Federal Ministry of Health to serve as isolation centres at the Onne Port in Rivers State. Besides, it has donated two facilities to the Port ...

Labour, groups, task govt on transparency in the management of donations Dissatisfied with Federal Government’s method of sharing stipends to vulnerable Nigerians to cushion the effect of Coronavirus induced lockdown, the Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP), has flayed the ...

Delta State Governor Ifeanyi Okowa has disclosed that three suspected cases of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the state tested negative. He made this known on his Facebook page yesterday. The governor had, in a statewide broadcast, said that the ...

Akwa Ibom State Governor Udom Emmanuel has said his administration would continue to be proactive in providing healthcare facilities in line with his determination to make health services cheaper for his people. The governor stated this during his visit to ...