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The World Health Organisation (WHO), the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) and other stakeholders on the World Health Day (WHD) April 7, have advocated more support for nurses and midwives, especially those fighting to contain COVID-19. The WHO said April 7, ...

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has charged Nigeria and other African nations affected by the COVID-19 pandemic to seek debt forgiveness from their creditors. In a statement entitled, “What Africa must do to mitigate the damaging effects of coronavirus”, the ...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to confirm reports that Chadian President Idris Deby personally led his troops to rout the insurgents and free Nigerian territories and soldiers seized by them in Borno State. The ...

 The Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) yesterday said it had killed 19 Boko Haram terrorists while conducting Operation Yanchin Tapki at Tumbums in Lake Chad region. The raids, which were supported by Air Task Force (ATF), resulted in the bombardment ...

Allegations of monumental fraud perpetrated at Federal Government’s Social Investment Programmes (SIPs), has drawn the ire of the leadership of the National Assembly. President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, made ...

No fewer than 585 American and Canadian citizens were airlifted from Lagos and Abuja. The evacuation was in response to requests by the nationals, who felt insecure staying in Nigeria despite the comparatively low prevalence of the coronavirus spread and ...

The Africa Union Economic, Social and Cultural Council (AU-ECOSOCC) has condemned the statement credited to French scientists that the COVID-19 vaccine should be test-run on Africans. It warned against remarks that could cause more harm to Africans during this trying ...

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 ...

Medical experts and residents of Calabar in Cross River State have raised the alarm over the one million facemasks being distributed by the state government from its garment factory. The masks, meant to protect the people from the deadly coronavirus ...