Stephen Karanja, a Kenyan doctor, who became a vocal anti-vaccine campaigner, has died after contracting COVID-19. Karanja died on Thursday in a high-dependency unit of a private hospital in Nairobi, Kenya. Following the development of vaccines against the virus, misconceptions have been widely spread, thus pushing doubts about inoculation and reducing willingness to receive a […]
The National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) has recorded 8,439 Mild Adverse Event Following Immunization (AEFI) in five states since the AstraZeneca vaccine rolled out in March. Executive Director of NPHCDA, Dr Faisal Shuaib, disclosed this at a press conference on the status of COVID-19 vaccination in Nigeria. Shuaib said these ranged from pain, […]
Lai Mohammed, minister of information and culture, has failed to disclose the exact date President Muhammadu Buhari would return to Nigeria. Buhari has been in the United Kingdom for two weeks for his “routine medical check-up”. When he travelled on March 30, the presidency had said he will return during the second week of April […]
The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has suspended its strike which commenced on April 1. Uyilawa Okhuaihesuyi, president of the association, confirmed the development to TheCable on Saturday. The decision to suspend the strike comes after the signing of a new agreement with the federal government, concerning issues raised in NARD’s 13-point demand. At […]
Chairman, Senate Committee on Health, Senator Ibrahim Oloriegbe, on Thursday, appealed to the striking resident doctors to return to work, saying “any single soul that dies as a result of the strike is in the hands of the doctors.” He spoke in Abuja at a public hearing on ‘Federal Medical Centre, Mubi, Adamawa State (Establishment) […]
Bello Matawalle, governor of Zamfara state, has described the protests against the medical vacation of President Muhammadu Buhari in London, UK, as an attack on the north. In March, the president left Nigeria for London for a medical check-up. Buhari’s trip to the UK for medical reasons has been an annual ritual since he became […]
The Nigeria Association of Resident Doctors has vowed to continue its ongoing strike until the federal and state governments concede to its demands. NARD made its position known in a communiqué issued at the end of a virtual extraordinary National Executive Council, meeting, signed by Dr Uyilawa Okhuaihesuyi, its President, on Thursday in Abuja. The […]
A German mayor was suspended by his own city council after it emerged he had received a coronavirus vaccination in January, despite not being in a priority group. An overwhelming majority of 34 councillors voted late Wednesday to temporarily suspend Bernd Wiegand, mayor of the central city of Halle. Wiegand, 64, had previously admitted to […]
The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), says he is currently taking “a short rest” in London, United Kingdom. According to a statement on Thursday by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, the President disclosed this in a letter he wrote to the King of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, King […]
Did you know? A Nigerian doctor gets N5,000 as monthly hazard allowance while senators are paid 248 times higher (N1.24 million) to buy newspapers monthly. On April 1, members of the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) embarked on an indefinite strike to protest their poor remuneration and conditions of service, just five months after […]
