Yahaya Bello, governor of Kogi state, has discouraged the use of COVID-19 vaccine, falsely stating that the jabs are meant to kill people. Like several other countries, Nigeria has recorded a second wave of the virus with an average of 1,000 cases daily in the last two weeks. The increase in cases has led to […]
The federal government, Monday, declared that no COVID-19 test was required for returning students to be admitted into their schools. But the government, in a terse statement by the Federal Ministry of Education, Monday, explained that only temperature test should be carried out on students. In the statement released by the ministry’s Director, Press and […]
A human rights activist and author, Comrade Paul Ikechukwu Njoku, has urged the Federal Government of Nigeria, the Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu and the Ministry of Health to humbly consult the founder of the Synagogue Church of All Nations, Lagos-Nigeria, Prophet TB Joshua, for prayers and miraculous […]
China on Saturday finished building a 1,500-room hospital for COVID-19 patients to fight a surge in infections the government said are harder to contain and that it blamed on infected people or goods from abroad. The hospital is one of six with a total of 6,500 rooms being built in Nangong, south of Beijing in […]
The Guild of Medical Directors (GMD) has insisted that Nigeria would not be able to purchase the Pfizer or Moderna COVID- 19 vaccines, especially in very large quantities, due to their high cost. Prof. Olufemi Babalola, who told our correspondent that the Pfizer vaccine costs about $40 per single dose, also noted that its storage […]
Nigerian authorities have warned on Friday against the circulation of fake coronavirus vaccines in the country, where 10 million real doses of the shots are expected in March. “There are reports of fake vaccines in Nigeria,” the Director-General of Nigeria’s National Agency for Food Drug and Administration Control (NAFDAC), Mojisola Adeyeye said during a virtual […]
The Director -General , National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control , Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye , has warned Nigerians not to take any vaccine except the ones approved by the agency . Adeyeye , at a briefing on Friday, said the World Health Organisation’ s approval was not enough for the use of […]
President Donald Trump’ s former personal doctor — who claimed Trump had dictated a letter insisting he would be the “ healthiest ” president ever — has died , reports said Thursday. Harold Bornstein passed away last Friday at the age of 73, according to the New York Times. No cause of death was given. […]
Pope Francis , 84, was given the coronavirus vaccine on Wednesday, according to media reports. The news was reported by America, a US- based Jesuit news website , and by La Nacion, an Argentine newspaper, and written by journalists known to be personal friends of the pope . The Vatican did not immediately respond to […]
A hospital, NobleCare Specialist Clinic located along Onitsha-Owerri road has rejected a ‘dying patient admitted to the hospital’ because a nurse in the hospital was told to endeavour to keep the hospital clean as the environment was evidently dirty. It was gathered that the Medical Director of the Hospital, one Dr. Asodike and some of […]
