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NCDC activates four more COVID-19 testing labs
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced the launch of four new COVID-19 testing laboratories to the list of…
COVID-19: Nigeria, Korea sign MoU on healthcare delivery
The Federal Ministry of Health has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea…
Nigeria announces 587 new COVID-19 cases, toll hits 17,735
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has announced that the record for the COVID-19 cases in Nigeria has risen to 17,735.
587…
Strike: FG speaks tough, orders marking attendance register for striking…
...as meeting deadlocked
Nigeria’s government may have decided to wield the big stick against striking resident doctors after…
Nigeria awaits WHO’s clearance to use Dexamethasone for COVID-19…
Nigeria is not in a hurry to adopt Britain’s new magic drug Dexamethasone to treat COVID-19 patients, even as death toll hit 455…
Nigeria records 573 new COVID-19 cases, toll hits 16,658
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has just announced that the record for the COVID-19 in the country has risen to 16,658. 573…
Foremost Professor of Medicine, Prof Akinkugbe is dead
Emeritus Professor Oladipo Akinkugbe is dead.
The late Akinkugbe, a foremost Nigerian professor of Medicine at the University…
COVID-19: FG warns state against reopening schools, viewing centres
The Presidential Task Force (PTF) on the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic warned on Monday against reopening of schools and…
A year after appointment, minister resigns over COVID-19 death toll
Chilean health minister Jaime Manalich resigned Saturday, just after a year in office, amid a furore over the true coronavirus…
Nigeria’s coronavirus toll hits 15,682 with 501 new cases
The COVID-19 caseload for Nigeria went up to 15,682 on Saturday, with 501 new cases announced by the Nigeria Centre for Disease…