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- 1 Jan 2025
Lassa Fever, Others Claimed 952 Lives in 2024 – NCDC
No fewer than 952 Nigerians have been killed by Lassa fever, cholera, measles, diphtheria, and yellow fever in 2024. This is according to data from the National Public Health Institute, Nigeria…
- 2 May 2025
Nigeria Reports 832 Lassa Fever and Mpox Cases, Death Toll Hits 135
Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has confirmed the country has recorded 832 confirmed cases of Lassa fever and Mpox. Speaking during a press briefing on Friday in Abuja, the…
- 10 Aug 2017
Panic as LUTH Workers Test Positive for Lassa Fever
Three health workers, out of the 100 that had contact with a pregnant woman who died of Lassa fever at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) Idi-Araba, have tested positive for the infection,…
- 25 Dec 2024
NCDC Activates Emergency Response as Lassa Fever Kills 190
Nigeria has launched an emergency response centre after recording 190 deaths from Lassa fever, a viral hemorrhagic illness, according to Nigerian Center for Disease Control (NCDC). The disease,…
- 3 Mar 2026
NCDC Raises Alarm over Lassa Fever Ravaging 18 States in Nigeria
Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has raised alarm over ravage of Lassa fever cases across 18 states and 67 Local Government Areas (LGAs) of the country. Dr Jide Idris,…
- 6 Nov 2025
Lassa Fever’s Death Toll in Nigeria Hits 176- NCDC
Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has reported that at least 176 people have died from Lassa fever across 21 states in 2025. According to the NCDC; Ondo, Bauchi, Edo and Taraba…
- 26 Jul 2026
NCDC Waxes Worriedly over States’ Preparedness for Ebola, Other Diseases
Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has raised concerns over gaps in states’ preparedness to tackle outbreaks of Ebola, cholera, Lassa fever and other infectious diseases,…
- 29 May 2026
NCDC Says Lagos, FCT, Others on High Ebola Alert
Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has placed Lagos, the Federal Capital Territory and several other states on high Ebola alert following the outbreak of the deadly Bundibugyo…
- 16 Apr 2020
Layer3 Provides NCDC With Free Bandwidth Upgrade to Support Fight Against COVID-19
Layer3 has upgraded the internet bandwidth to the headquarters of the Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC). It says the move is aimed at raising the agency’s communication and response…
- 22 Sept 2025
Kano Confirms 2 Mpox Cases
Kano State Centre for Disease Control (KNCDC) has confirmed two cases of Mpox, formerly known as monkeypox- an infectious viral disease caused by the monkeypox virus, which belongs to the…
- 28 Oct 2017
Innovators Battle for Prizes in USPF “Changemaker Challenge”
Universal Service Provision Fund (USPF), an arm of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), yesterday in Lagso threw the floor open to 30 innovations to compete for prizes in this year’s…
- 25 May 2026
FG Classifies Ebola Importation into Nigeria as High Risk
Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has classified the risk of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) importation into Nigeria as high amid the ongoing outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of…
- 10 Oct 2017
TEDxIkeja Offers Panacea To Troubled World With Native Intelligence
By Ugo Onwuaso Thought leaders from different spheres of life who are adept at applying native intelligence to solve problems would meet at the 2017 edition of TEDxIkeja to offer panacea to a world…
- 16 Feb 2017
Hudibia: Medical Solutions Taken to The Next Level
Getting access to medical attention on time can be the difference between life and death. Technology is, however, seeing to improvement in this. I recently had a chat with Dr. Njoku Amadi-Obi, the…
- 28 May 2026
NCDC Warns against Using Bitter Kola, Salt Water as Ebola Remedies
Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has warned Nigerians against relying on bitter kola, salt water, herbs, seasoning cubes, and other unverified substances as remedies for Ebola…
- 18 Mar 2020
Coronavirus: Dettol Partners Lagos State to Educate 50,000 School Children on Handwashing
Dettol, Nigeria’s leading hygiene brand through its flagship Clean Naija Initiative, a campaign designed to create awareness, educate and drive behavioural change to achieve a cleaner and healthier…
- 28 Jul 2008
Nigeria’s Technology War against HIV/AIDS
Just many years after governments around the world stepped up efforts to fight t acquired immunodeficiency syndrome with technology, Nigeria is waking to the reality and she is even celebrating her…
- 28 Feb 2022
COVID-19: NCDC Confirms Death of over 3,000 Nigerians in 2 Years
Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has said Nigeria confirmed an excess of 250,000 coronavirus cases and recorded over 3,000 deaths within the last two years. The NCDC, in a statement, said…
- 6 Mar 2018
Microsoft, Tech4dev Graduate 450 Women Coders in Ondo, Ekiti, Oyo states
In a bid to bridge the gender divide in the tech ecosystem in Nigeria and to empower women to be self-dependent and become leaders in tech, Tech4dev, with Microsoft’s backing, has successfully…
- 3 Feb 2025
FG Says Nigeria @ ‘Moderate’ Risk following Fresh Ebola Virus Outbreak
Federal government has said it has heightened surveillance especially at the points of entry following the outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in Uganda. The Nigeria Centre of Disease Control and…
- 13 Oct 2017
TEDxIkeja: Adeti, Inlaks CEO Shows How to Achieve Financial Inclusion in Nigeria
By peter oluka How the army of unbanked Nigerians could come into the formal financial space would be the subject of discussion when the CEO of Inlaks, Femi Adeoti, speaks at the 2017 edition of…