The Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Monday commended Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River State over his response to the COVID-19 pandemic, describing him...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) Sunday night confirmed 338 new COVID-19 cases in the country. The centre said on its Twitter handle that the...
The Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) Saturday admitted it made a mistake in its report on the COVID-19 infections in Akwa Ibom State. The centre...
The National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed three new COVID-19 deaths in Lagos State. The centre, which disclosed this in its Situation 77 report...
Benue State COVID-19 index case, Mrs Susan Idoko, has threatened the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) with a lawsuit if she is not released within...
Nigeria’s weekly capacity for COVID-19 is set to increase by 9,100 following Federal Government’s readiness to repurpose the tuberculosis GeneXpert machines that have been deployed in...
The spike in the number of COVID-19 infections in Nigeria shows no signs of abating after medical personnel discovered 288 new cases across the country Friday....
The Plateau State government Friday rejected the claim by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) that the state recorded an additional five cases of COVID-19....
The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has faulted the decision by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) to adopt the ‘smart testing’ option in the ongoing...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) Thursday night confirmed 193 new COVID-19 cases in the country. The centre said on its Twitter handle that the...
Doyin Okupe has revealed that he took copious amount of ginger, garlic, tumeric and lemon to cure himself and his wife of COVID-19 infection. Okupe, a...
The COVID-19 infections in Nigeria moved closer to the 5,000 mark Wednesday night following the discovery of 184 new cases in several states of the federation...
Nigeria’s COVID-19 infections increased to 4,787 on Tuesday night after the nation’s centre for disease control confirmed 146 new cases in several parts of the country....
The Kogi State government said Tuesday 111 suspected COVID-19 cases in the state had tested negative for the disease. The state Commissioner for Information and Communication...
A meeting of Governors of the 36 states of the federation to assess the impact of the various anti-COVID-19 measures so far implemented across the country...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) Monday night confirmed 242 fresh cases of COVID-19 in the country. Nigeria, according to the report published by the...
The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has demanded the withdrawal of the controversial Control of Infectious Disease Bill at the House of Representatives. The bill, sponsored by...
The Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello has accused the Nigeria Centre of Disease Control (NCDC) of hiding something over COVID-19 and asked them to open...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) Thursday night confirmed 381 fresh cases of COVID-19 in the country. The freshly infected persons have now increased the...
A driver with the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), has tested positive for the COVID-19 disease in Nasarawa, the state Governor, Abdullahi Sule said on...
Nigerians have been warned to adhere to guidelines issues by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) to curtail the spread of COVID-19, or face another...
Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje on Sunday, admitted that the state is in trouble over the COVID-19 pandemic. The Governor, who made the admission at the...
The Director General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu has said that Nigeria, just like the rest of the world, would...
To curb the spread of the coronavirus, the federal government announced Friday that about 12,000 contacts were being traced for sample and testing. The Director General...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) Friday advised Nigerians to adopt all the COVID-19 containment measures including the use of face masks. These measures, the...
The Nigerian government has made an appeal to Nigerians to donate their buildings as isolation centers as the coronavirus pandemic increases. The Minister of Health, Dr...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Thursday denied having a prior knowledge of the Control of Infectious Disease Bill that is currently before the...
The Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) on Thursday dismissed as misleading and false the claim that palm oil is capable of stopping the spread of...
The Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu, said Thursday the centre was currently struggling for bed spaces for COVID-19 patients...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 to immediately account for the N5 billion released by President Muhammadu Buhari,...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) said Tuesday the emergency phase of Lassa fever outbreak was over following the decline in the number of cases...
The Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) Tuesday reopened its testing center in Kano. The NCDC Director-General, Dr. Chikwe Ihekwazu, who announced the reopening of the...
A staff of APM Terminals in Apapa, Lagos, has tested positive for COVID-19. The company’s General Manager, External Relations, Daniel Odibe, disclosed this in a statement...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has set a target of testing two million people in the next three months to check the spread of...
The Director-General of the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Chikwe Ihekweazu has said that the country now has capacity for about 50,000 COVID-19 tests. Ihekweazu...
The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has charged the Federal Government to immediately intervene in the mass deaths going on in Kano State. In a statement issued...
Management of the hospital where the first coronavirus infected patient died says it will shut down for two weeks, a statement revealed. The management of Lafia...
The All Progressives Congress (APC), has berated the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) over its comments on the COVID-19 pandemic and the reported increase of deaths in...
Human rights lawyer, Mr Femi Falana (SAN), has demanded for detailed information on the strange deaths and mass burials reportedly happening in Kano. The Senior Advocate...
The Bauchi State government led by Governor Bala Mohammed has recorded three new positive cases of COVID-19 in the state. This was disclosed to journalists on...
Officials of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Saturday took sample from the National Leader of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu...
Nigerians who may be hoping that the Federal Government would relax the lockdown imposed on parts of the country have been told to forget the thought,...
The Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu, said on Friday some states were yet to bring in samples for testing...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) Thursday confirmed 108 fresh cases of coronavirus in the country. Thursday night’ figure has pushed up the total number...
The Director-General of Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu, said on Thursday the United States’ halting of funding for the World Health Organisation...
The Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu, said Thursday countries had different approaches to testing for COVID-19. There have been...
The National Coordinator of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, Dr. Sani Aliyu, said on Thursday the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) and the World...
The Minister for Health, Osagie Ehanire on Wednesday disclosed that the 15-man Chinese medical team would be undergoing the COVID-19 test on Thursday (today), to ascertain...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) COVID-19 test centre in Kano has suspended operations. This suspension was done due to shortage of test kits. The...
The Minster of State for Health, Dr. Olorunnibe Mamora on Tuesday explained that the number of people tested for COVID-19 disease in Nigeria has remained low...
