President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday in Abuja launched a N62 billion trust fund to help Nigeria end AIDS as a public health threat and place more people living with HIV on treatment annually. Speaking at the launch of the HIV Trust Fund of Nigeria (HTFN), the President pledged that his administration would continue to […]
A medical doctor working with the World Health Organisation (WHO) in Benue State has reportedly died of Lassa fever. Our correspondent reports that the doctor whose name was given as Samuel Tagher Nyitor, succumbed to death on Sunday from the disease after being referred to Irrua Specialist Hospital in Edo State. There were however reports […]
The Omicron variant of Covid-19 is killing people across the globe and should not be dismissed as mild, the World Health Organization insisted Thursday. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the record numbers of people catching the new variant — which is rapid out-competing the previously-dominant Delta variant in many countries — meant hospitals were […]
Lionel Messi has tested negative for Covid-19 and is now back in France and will resume training “in the coming days”, Paris Saint-Germain announced on Wednesday. The seven-time Ballon d’Or winner tested positive for the virus while in his native Argentina last week but flew back to Paris on Wednesday. He missed PSG’s 4-0 French […]
The presidency says visitors to the presidential villa in Abuja will be required to take rapid COVID tests before they would be allowed in. Garba Shehu, presidential spokesperson, confirmed the development to state house correspondents in Abuja on Sunday. Rapid COVID tests are designed to tell in a few minutes if someone is infected with […]
Lionel Messi has tested positive for Covid-19 and has entered self-isolation, his club Paris Saint-Germain announced on Sunday. The seven-time Ballon d’Or winner was one of four PSG players to test positive for the virus ahead of a French Cup match against Vannes. The Argentinian star has endured a difficult start to life in the […]
The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Mohammed Bello has tested positive for COVID-19. Bello in a statement personally signed by him on Friday said he started feeling sick on Tuesday and his test result for the virus came out positive on Friday morning. He also added that experts informed him that his case […]
The Senior Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, has recovered from COVID-19. Shehu announced his recovery in a Facebook post on Wednesday, barely a week after he confirmed his initial positive status to Channels Television. “I thank Almighty Allah for my speedy recovery from COVID-19,” he said in the social […]
The Director General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, has said the agency is working with international partners to ensure Nigeria gets vaccines with long expiration dates. Adeyeye spoke against the backdrop of the one million doses of vaccines that expired in November and were destroyed […]
The Special Assistant to the President (Media), Office of the Minister of Information and Culture, Segun Adeyemi has said that the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed never tested positive to Covid-19, hence not in isolation nor receiving treatment. A statement from Adeyemi said, “for the record, the Minister does not have Covid-19, hence he […]
