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COVID-19 doctors not participating in strike risk N5m fine, NARD threatens

NCDC discharges 1,025 COVID-19 patients after full recovery

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has disclosed that 1,025 patients were discharged from…

By Enitan Daramola
JUST IN: Lagos announces restriction of movement ahead of Saturday's Local Government elections

COVID-19 Vaccine: NPHCDA threatens Lagos govt

Dr Faisal Shuaib, director of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency, has accused…

By Funmilayo Ayanwusi
AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines distributed to Lagos expires in three months - Commissioner

AstraZeneca vaccine highly effective – Manufacturers

The British-Swedish pharmaceuticals company AstraZeneca says it has proof that its Covid-19 vaccine is…

By Enitan Daramola
Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines Hong Kong Macau

Hong Kong, Macau suspend use of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine

Hong Kong and Macau officials on Wednesday announced the suspension of the use of…

By Enitan Daramola
Dino Melaye, Yahaya Bello

You collected COVID-19 palliatives, you must accept vaccine, Melaye tells Gov Bello

A former lawmaker, Dino Melaye, has called out the Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello,…

By Funmilayo Ayanwusi

FCT overtakes Lagos, others as NCDC records 86 new COVID-19 infections

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has recorded 86 new cases of COVID-19 in…

By Irobosa Osazuwa
Dr. Osagie Ehanire, primary health centre, Ministry of Science and Technology, Technology and Innovation Expo

Two COVID-19 candidate vaccines ready for clinical trials – Ehanire

The Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, has disclosed that  researchers in the country…

By Adebayo Folorunsho-Francis
AstraZeneca COVID-19 Vaccines, Minister of State for health, Dr. Olorunnibe Mamora

Europe’s AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines suspension politicised over Brexit – Mamora

The Federal Government On Friday expressed concerns over the suspension of Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines…

By Adebayo Folorunsho-Francis
Boris Johnson COVID-19 vaccine

UK PM Boris Johnson receives Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine

The United Kingdom Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, on Friday, received his first Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine…

By Enitan Daramola
doctors killed by COVID-19, NARD National President, Dr Uyilawa Okhuaihesuyi, Festus Keyamo, Olorunnimbe Mamora, Osagie Ehanire and Chris Ngige, Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, Boss Mustapha

NARD to strike March 31 over non-payment of deceased doctors’ insurance

Families of doctors killed by COVID-19 received nothing – Association We lost 17 doctors…

By Adebayo Folorunsho-Francis
Prof. Akin Abayomi, AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine

12,720 persons vaccinated in 48 hours – Lagos Commissioner

The Lagos State government says 12,720 persons have so far been administered with the…

By Adebayo Folorunsho-Francis
AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine

EU regulator declares AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine safe

The European Union drug regulator, the European Medicines Agency, has declared the AstraZeneca COVID-19…

By Enitan Daramola
Nigeria COVID-19 recovery deaths cases discharges NCDC

Nigeria’s COVID-19 fatalities hit 2,018 as NCDC records 187 new cases

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control on Thursday reported 187 new cases of the…

By Enitan Daramola
COVID-19 vaccine side effect

No medicine without side effects, NAFDAC DG defends COVID-19 vaccine

The Director-General of the National Agency for Food and Drugs Commission, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye,…

By Enitan Daramola
FG repatriates 22 slain ISIS fighters' families, 79 Nigerians from Libya* At least 22 family members of Islamic State fighters who died fighting in Libya were reportedly among 101 stranded Nigerians repatriated from Libya. The individuals, according to a statement by Head, Media, Public Relations and Protocols, National Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), Abdur-Rahman Balogun, were received by officials of Ministry of Foreign Affairs; NIDCOM; Nigeria Centre for Disease Control; National Drug Law Enforcement Agency; National Emergency Management Agency; Department of State Services; Nigeria Immigration Service and Port Health. The statement read, “The stranded Nigerians include the 22 family members of suspected former members of ISIS that were killed in Libya as well as their children. “All evacuees came with Negative PCR test for Covid- 19, and landed at exactly 10.15 pm at Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport GAT wing, aboard Airforce C130.” That ISIS fighters are scattered across Libya, which has been engulfed in violent extremism since the death of Muammar Gaddafi, the country’s strong man. Gaddafi was killed in an uprising in the country in 2011

JUST IN: 118 Libya returnees to quarantine for two weeks in Abuja – NIDCO (PHOTOS)

The 118 Nigerians who were reportedly stranded in Libya arrived Nigeria on Wednesday morning.…

By Adebayo Folorunsho-Francis