Health

Oluwasina Phillip The United Nations Children Fund has disclosed plans to provide mental health, psycho-social support and counselling services to the freed learners of Salihu Tanko Islamiya School and their parents. UNICEF, while commending the release of 91 students abducted three months ago, condemned the death of one child who …

Ololade Omosan-Agie The National Agency for Food, Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has disclosed plans to clamp down on unethical and illegal advertisement of herbal medicines in Kaduna State. According to the State Coordinator, Nasiru Mato on Monday, the excesses and arbitrary advertisement of these products in the state in …

Ololade Omosan-Agie The federal government has disclosed plans to begin the administration of AstraZeneca vaccine across the country on Wednesday. The Executive Director, National Primary Health Care Development, Faisal Shuaib on Tuesday explained that 29 States have so far received some portion of the Moderna vaccines. He said the AstraZeneca …

Ebuka Daniel The Capital Market Support Committee for COVID-19 (CMSCC) has donated 2000 protective suits to the Lagos State Government to help battle the current third wave of COVID-19 pandemic in the state. The CMSCC is a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) led committee, comprised of the capital market community …

Ololade Omosan-Agie The United Nation Children’s Fund has stated that young people living in Nigeria are among those most at risk of the impacts of climate change, threatening their health, education and protection. UNICEF in its ‘The Climate Crisis Is a Child Rights Crisis’ report launched on Friday, ranked Nigeria …

Oluwasina Phillip The Secretary to the Government of the Federation and Chairman, Presidential Steering Committee on COVID-19, Boss Mustapha, has again urged Nigerians to get vaccinated, stating that in no distant time, proof of vaccination will be required from anyone who wishes to visit other countries. Speaking at the flag-off …

Ololade Omosan-Agie The United Children’s Fund has condemned the death of three children in Borno state, occasioned by unexploded remnants of war. As contained in a statement issued by UNICEF on Sunday, the avoidable death shows that children has remained the targets of the conflict wrecking the North-Eastern part of …

Oluwasina Phillip The Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire has insisted that the government will not pay the striking doctors, in compliance with the International Labour Organisation. Ehanire disclosed this during a press briefing at the State house According to him, the ‘no work no pay’ principle is an ILO regulation …

Cholera Killing More Nigerians Than COVID-19–NCDC Boss Oluwasina Phillip The Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Chikwe Ihekweazu has raise alarm on the spread of cholera infections across the country, stating that it has so far claimed more lives than COVID-19 from January till date. Ihekweazu disclosed …

Ololade Omosan-Agie The United Nations Children Fund, has decried the poor rate of birth registration in Nigeria, stating that over 50 percent of children under the age of five in Nigeria are not registered during child birth. The disclosure is coming as Nigeria joins the rest of the world in …