A new case of COVID-19 in Nigeria has been confirmed by the Cross River state government News Agency of Nigeria reported that Henry Ayuk, the state commissioner for health disclosed the latest development at a press conference on Tuesday. The commissiner said the index case involves a 53-year-old Chinese national working with Lafarge in Akamkpa…
The Osun State Government has pledged to take action regarding the situation involving the jailed Apetumodu of Ipetumodu, Oba Joseph Oloyede. This decision follows a directive issued to the Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs to respond to the unfolding circumstances. In a statement released after a recent state executive council meeting, Kola po…
The federal government, through the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, has directed all the chief medical directors and medical directors of tertiary hospitals to immediately activate alert systems throughout the hospitals for a high index of suspicion in patients with COVID-like symptoms. The decision was followed by the wide circulation of the newly detected…
Following a report of new a COVID-19 variants in 51 countries like China, the United States, the Republic of Korea, Japan, Canada, Australia, Singapore, the United Kingdom, France, Portugal and Spain, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has assured Nigerians that there is no need to panic over the new variants. NCDC, in a…
No fewer than 29 news cases of COVID-19 were recorded by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) in six States between January 7 and 13, 2023. The new cases brings the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Nigeria till date to 266,49, with 259,858 cases discharged, and sadly, 3,155 deaths…
Following the relaxation of its lockdown restrictions, China has recorded almost 60,000 death in hospitals across the country since the start of December 2022. The wave of the virus engrossed in China after President Xi Jinping abruptly lifted zero-Covid policy restrictions last month, as reported by UK Guardian reports on Saturday, saying 900 million Chinese…
Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) says it has recorded 13 new cases of COVID-19 in Lagos and Edo states. According to NCDC, Lagos recorded 12 new cases, while Edo State recorded one between December 31 and January 6, 2023, and has increased the total number of confirmed cases across the 36 states…
China says it has on Sunday, lifted quarantine requirements for inbound travellers. This is coming barely three years after self-imposed isolation even though the country is still battling with COVID-19 cases. It was learnt that the first people to arrive expressed a bit relief at not having to undergo the gruelling quarantines that were a…
Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) says it recorded 35 new COVID-19 cases in a week. The cases were found in the Federal Capital Territory and three states between December 24 and 30, 2022. They are FCT, 22; Lagos, 10; Delta, two; and Plateau, one. This brings the total number of confirmed cases…
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention has explained that the COVID-19 Omicron sub-lineages partly responsible for the current increase in COVID-19 cases in China, the United States, and the United Kingdom have not yet been detected in the country. Director General, Dr Ifedayo Adetifa, while disclosing this on Wednesday in an update on…
The National Primary Healthcare Development Agency said Thursday that more than 60 million people in Nigeria had been fully vaccinated against the coronavirus. Faisal Shuaib, the executive director of the agency spoke in Abuja during the its COVID-19 performance review meeting. He added that over 60 million have taken the first dose of the vaccine….
The Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, says his administration, in the last three and half years, has been able to increase its Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) to over N100 billion post-COVID-19 Abiodun, who made this known during the celebration of Ijebu sons and daughters by the Ijebu Heritage Group in Lagos State, said that his…
The Association of Resident Doctors, University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital (UITH-ARD) chapter, has warned the public that cases of COVID-19 pandemic are increasing in Nigeria, advising people to continue with the prescribed preventive measures. Dr Dele Abdullahi, the President of the association, made the appeal on Monday in Ilorin during a news conference organised as…
Elijah Akoji In this investigation, ELIJAH AKOJI exposes corrupt practices in the execution of over N490 million water schemes in Gasuha, Bade LGA, Yobe State, awarded by the Federal Ministry of Water Resources in 2020. The project is situated in Senate President, Ahmed Lawan’s senatorial district in Yobe North. In 2020, the Federal Government through…
ABUJA, Nigeria (The Informant247) – No fewer than 422 passengers were nabbed for presenting fake COVID-19 vaccination cards in Nigeria between July and August, officials said on Monday. The country’s director of port health services Geoffrey Okatubo, during a ministerial briefing and update on COVID-19 response and development in Abuja, said about 96 per cent…
Chidozie Collins Obasi, a Nigerian, has been declared wanted by the United States government for defrauding its citizens between 2018 and 2020. Jacqueline C. Romero, the Attorney of the U.S. has said that the suspected fraudster has been charged with one count of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, while he’s been charged with…
The Zamfara State Government has given order that the Damba COVID-19 Disease Control Centre in Gusau, the State capital, be converted to General Hospital Status. The directive has been given by the Deputy Governor, Senator Hassan Muhammad Nasiha while on an official visit to the Center. While speaking to journalists at the premises of the…
The Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, Dr. Ifedayo Adetifa, has advised the Kogi State government not to let down its guard against COVID-19. Adetifa gave the advice following the directive by the state governor, Yahaya Bello, banning the use of face masks in public places as part of efforts to tackle insecurity…
Ekiti State has recorded seventy-four new cases of COVID-19. In a statement in Ado Ekiti, the State Commissioner for Health and Human Services, Dr Oyebanji Filani explained that the new cases were recorded after the Eld- EL- Kabir celebration. The health commissioner noted that there was a significant decline in the number of positive COVID-19…
The Nigeria Centre for Disease and Prevention Control (NCDC) has raised alarm over 880 additional coronavirus infections reported in Nigeria from July 2 to 8, though with no fatalities. The NCDC disclosed this via its official website on Saturday afternoon, that the country’s commercial capital city, Lagos State, is driving the nation’s latest COVID-19 surge….
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says COVID-19 cases are on the rise in 110 countries, driven by the BA.4 and BA.5 variants of the virus. WHO Director-General, Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus disclosed this on Wednesday at the agency’s headquarters in Geneva, noting that the variants amounting to a 20 per cent spike overall. According to Ghebreyesus,…
The use of face masks in public places is now optional, the Presidential Steering Committee on COVID-19 has said, adding that decision on the final relaxation of measures will be taken after Easter. Head of the Technical Secretariat, who also doubles as the Secretary of the PSC on COVID-19, Dr. Muktar Muhammed, disclosed this in…
The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has said the war in Ukraine and the sanctions on Russia will take a toll on the fight against COVID-19 in Africa. “Definitely the continent will be affected across the board, no doubt about that,” said John Nkengasong, director of the Africa CDC on Thursday….
World Health Organisation (WHO) says almost 500 million people have been infected with the coronavirus since March 2020 and new variants are still a threat as it marks two years of declaring COVID-19 a pandemic. On Friday marks two years since WHO characterised the global spread of COVID-19 as a pandemic. The UN health agency’s…
At least two-thirds of households with children have lost income since the COVID-19 pandemic hit two years ago, according to a joint report published on Wednesday by the UN children’s agency (UNICEF) and World Bank. The report, Impact of COVID-19 on the welfare of households with children, presents findings from data collected in 35 countries….
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) says Nigeria’s daily COVID-19 count maintained a relatively low figure on Monday, with two new cases. The centre, via its website on Tuesday morning said, the two cases were reported in Kaduna State and Rivers. This, it added, brings Nigeria’s total cases to 254,659. The News Agency of…
The Nigeria Center for Disease Control, NCDC, has said more than 250,000 cases and 3,000 deaths were recorded in Nigeria in the last two years of the spread of COVID-19 pandemic to Nigeria. Director-General of NCDC, Dr Ifetayo Adetifa, in a press release, Monday, said the country has learnt major lessons in its bid to…
Two years down the line since Nigeria commenced its response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) says it’s building on lessons learnt so far to strengthen the country’s health security for the future. The Director-General, NCDC, Dr Ifedayo Adetifa, said this in a statement, he signed on Monday and made…
The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, says bed capacity utilisation in the state’s public and private COVID-19 care centres have dropped to zero per cent. Abayomi disclosed this through his Instagram account @profakinabayomi on Wednesday, while giving the state’s COVID-19 update for Feb. 21. He said that total bed capacity at the…
The Executive Director, Planned Parenthood Federation of Nigeria (PPFN), Dr Okai Aku, on Tuesday, said Nigeria had the human and material resources to deliver on the manufacture of COVID-19 vaccines. Aku, a public health expert, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)…
