Uganda on Wednesday declared an end to an Ebola virus outbreak that emerged almost four months ago and claimed the lives of 55 people. “We have successfully controlled the Ebola outbreak in Uganda,” Health Minister Jane Ruth Aceng said at a ceremony in the central district of Mubende where …
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Lassa fever has killed a Nasarawa State medical doctor, identified as Dr Ahmed Isaiah. Members of the Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) in Nasarawa State held a procession for the deceased in Lafia on Tuesday The doctor died on Dec. 31, 2022, at the National Hospital, Abuja. NMA chairman in the …
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Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has posted 35 new cases of COVID-19 for the last week of December 2022. It stated on its website, yesterday, that 22 of the cases were recorded in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), 10 in Lagos State, two in Delta, while one happened in …
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The United States said Tuesday that the requirement of COVID-19 tests for travellers from China was based on science and due to Beijing’s lack of transparency on surging cases. China earlier Tuesday denounced measures taken by a number of countries on its travellers as “unacceptable,” two days before air passengers, …
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The Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has advised members of staff of Alimosho General Hospital to treat all their patients with passion regardless of political affiliation, religion or race. The governor gave the advice, according to a statement on Tuesday, during his annual Christmas visit to the hospital …
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THE lead counsel for the embattled leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN), has said that Kanu lacks potassium in his bloodstream and may need “urgent heart surgery”, Newsextra24 reports. This is as he and his team of over 18 lawyers signed a …
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The death toll in the Cholera outbreak in Ekureku community in Abi Local Government Area of Cross River has risen from Saturday’s figure of 20 to 51 on Monday. The clan head of the community, Chief Bernard Egbe, stated this when he received the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party …
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AT least 30 persons have reportedly died in Ekureku Community in Abi Local government area of Cross River state following the outbreak of Cholera. Ekureku Community is made up of 10 villages including Agbara , Ngarabe, Ekureku-be ,Akpoha , Akare-for , Anong, Emenekpon ,Etegevel, Egboronyi, Emegeh shares boundary with some …
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One of the volunteer workers said the state government might have released the money but corrupt officials might be delaying the payment COVID-19 health workers who were brought in as volunteers with the Lagos State BioBank are currently in distress going by the failure of the Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s administration …
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Point of Sale terminal operators and Lagos-based human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, have said they will sue the Central Bank of Nigeria if it fails to withdraw the new cash withdrawal policy limiting over-the-counter cash withdrawals by individuals and companies to N100,000 and N500,000, respectively, per week. The CBN …
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