The total number of recorded cases of the dreaded COVID-19 disease which has claimed many lives already across the globe stands at 1.5 million with the...
The Regional office of the WHO for Africa has confirmed that Covid-19 figures in the continent now add up to over 10,000 confirmed cases with more...
The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday over 3,000 health workers have been infected with coronavirus globally while many died in the process of offering...
As part of the efforts to halt the spread of fake news surrounding coronavirus, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said it was partnering with Whatsapp...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned African countries to prepare for the worst over the outbreak and possible spread of the deadly coronavirus also known...
China’s National Health Commission said on Thursday that the country has passed the peak of the coronavirus epidemic with the number of new cases falling to...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Wednesday declared the coronavirus outbreak as global pandemic. The WHO Director-General, Tedros Ghebreyesus, announced this at a media briefing in...
The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, on Wednesday said he cannot reveal the identity of the Italian who brought Coronavirus into the country...
Against the backdrop of the spread of the deadly coronavirus, also known as COVID-19, the President of the United Nations General Assembly, Ambassador Tijani Muhammad-Bande, has...
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has called on the Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu to obey the court ruling stopping compulsory blood donations in the...
Health authorities in the North African country of Morocco have confirmed its first case of the deadly coronavirus also known as COVID-19 which has quickly spread...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday expressed sadness over the confirmation of Covid-19 in the country, despite efforts made to prevent it. Buhari said this in his...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that the window of opportunity to stem the deadly outbreak of the coronavirus epidemic was “narrowing” amid concern about...
A report released by a Commission put together by the World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF and The Lancet, has ranked Nigeria in the bottom 10 in...
China health authorities in latest update concerning the death toll arising from the outbreak of the deadly coronavirus say it has climbed from 1,800 to 1,868...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has extended the designation of global health emergency earlier declared in the Democratic Republic of Congo over the outbreak of the...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Thursday the Coronavirus has killed a Chinese doctor, Dr. Li Wenliang. WHO, in a tweet posted on its official...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Tuesday tried to douse the growing fears arising from the growing spread of the coronavirus, saying the world is “not...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Friday listed Nigeria and 12 other nations as high-risk African countries for the coronavirus. The 12 other countries are –...
The outbreak of the deadly MERS & SARS-like disease known as coronavirus in China has been declared a global emergency by the World Health Organization (WHO)....
The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Sunday warned Nigeria and other member countries to be ready to deal with possible outbreak of the coronavirus in their...
Senior health officials have confirmed that the fourth patient that contracted the SARS-like infection known as the Coronavirus has passed on at the Wuhan Municipal Health...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) warned on Monday that Nigeria may not achieve the universal health coverage by 2030 due to the shortage of health workers....
The Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) army says it has gunned down a top rebel leader during an operation in the eastern part of the...
Car dealers on Wednesday lamented over two different duties charged by Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), which they say contravened the rule of the World Trade Organisation...
The Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, said on Saturday the country hopes to reduce the number of visually impaired people by 25 percent before the end...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has started a campaign targeting over 800,000 children in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in a bid to tackle the...
The government of Tanzania has summoned the World Health Organization’s local representative after the UN agency, World Health Organisation (WHO) accused it of refusing to give...
Following the resurgence of the Ebola Virus Disease in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has directed all airline operators to...
Four years ago the World Health Organisation (WHO) rolled out its global strategy to eliminate hepatitis by 2030 four years ago. Known as a “silent killer”...
The United Nations health agency, World Health Organisation (WHO) has sounded a global alarm over the recent outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo...
The number of cases in the latest outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo has passed 2,000, provoking calls from UK international development secretary...
A fungus which is genetically enhanced to produce spider toxin can rapidly kill huge numbers of the mosquitoes that spread malaria, the Guardian reports. Researchers at...
Addiction to video games will soon be classified as an official mental disorder, courtesy of the World Health Organization (WHO). Falling under the same umbrella as...
The Federal Government has said it is anxiously waiting for the result of pilot RTSS/ASO1, the World’s first anti-malaria vaccine, which was launched in Malawi on...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has said that its progress with the fight against the dreaded Ebola virus will be lost if fighting continues around the...
Three countries namely South Sudan, Uganda and Rwanda are “at very high risk” of Ebola importation from an outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, so...
The outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo which has thus far claimed no less than 198 lives in 426 recorded...
By Funmilola Ajala… Arguably Nigeria’s most flamboyant First Lady, Maryam Babangida’s death in Los Angeles, United States, in December 2009, jolted many; though her husband had...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) following an emergency committee meeting of experts convened by the body said on Wednesday that the Ebola outbreak in the DRC...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned of an impending Ebola “perfect storm” in the wake of attacks by armed groups, community resistance and the geographic...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has confirmed that it has recorded seventy eight cases of Ebola and fourty four deaths since August 1, following a fresh...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said that a new drug – Carbetocin – has the potential to save thousands of women’s lives in childbirth annually....
The United Nations has cautioned against declaring victory against Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo warning that it is still at war with the dreaded...
Despite the fact that 90 percent of people who are at risk of contracting the dreaded Ebola virus in the city of Mbandaka have been vaccinated,...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has revealed that no less than 39 suspected, probable or confirmed cases of Ebola have been recorded in the Democratic Republic...
The incidence of violence against children is on the high with concerned groups decrying the alarming increase. The growing scourge has also witnessed the clamour for...
BY the end of 2018, the Federal Government would have spent the sum of N55.19 trillion as budgets for 10 years, if the N8.612 trillion proposed...
Residents of Bayelsa State are in a state of panic over confirmed reports of a breakout of the deadly monkeypox virus in the state. According to...
A report by the World Health Organisation (WHO) has revealed that over 500 victims have been declared dead following the outbreak of a cholera epidemic that...
