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- 20 Apr 2021
US Disease Control Agency Appoints Dr Adetinuke Boyd as New Country Director for Nigeria
The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has appointed Dr. Mary Adetinuke Boyd as the new Country Director for Nigeria. The US Mission in Nigeria made this known in a statement…
- 22 Mar 2020
NCDC Says Only 5 Labs Can Test for COVID-19 in Nigeria
National Center for Disease Control (NCDC) has said that there are presently only five laboratories within its laboratory network with the capacity to test for coronavirus in Nigeria. This was…
- 26 Jul 2021
Nigeria Reports Increase in Confirmed Monkeypox Cases
Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) has reported a total of 466 suspected monkeypox cases from 30 states. Monkeypox is a smallpox-like virus that leaves victims with a painful rash and can be…
- 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,…
- 31 May 2022
FG Orders Hunters, Bushmeat Sellers to Stop Business over Monkeypox
Federal government has rolled out strict measures to contain the spread of monkeypox in the country as the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) reported 21 cases of the disease. Dr Mohammad…
- 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…
- 31 Aug 2014
FG Commends Airtel in the Fight Against Ebola
The special medical team constituted by the federal and state governments to fight the spread of Ebola Virus Disease has commended Airtel Nigeria for its support and contributions to the ongoing…
- 25 Aug 2024
Nigeria Ramps Up Response as Mpox Cases Hit 40
Nigeria has rolled out measures to contain the spread of mpox as the country has recorded 39 cases of the virus this year amid a surge in infections across Africa, according to Dr. Jide Idris,…
- 6 Nov 2020
Airtel Commences Renovation of Infectious Disease Centre at LUTH
Airtel Nigeria has commenced the refurbishing and equipping of a 4-storey infectious disease center and admission facility for the use of Specialist Units in the Department of Medicine at the Lagos…
- 4 Oct 2020
CNN Credits Nigerian Scientists with Developing Cheaper, Faster Covid-19 Test Kits
Scientists in Nigeria have developed a cheaper and faster Covid-19 test kit that will enable testing to be ramped up in a place that has faced kit shortages and chronic under-testing of a massive…
- 10 Apr 2020
MainOne Provides Connectivity to COVID-19 Lagos Command Centers
MainOne, West Africa’s leading connectivity and data center solutions provider, has partnered with the Lagos State Government and National Center for Disease Control (NCDC) to help curtail the…
- 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…
- 24 Sept 2014
Panic as Report Says Ebola Cases Could Hit 1.4m
Ebola cases could reach 1.4 million by late January 2015, up from the current total of 5,800, according to a new study by a US medical agency. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)…
- 5 Apr 2020
Airtel Donates N1.9Bn to Fight COVID-19
Airtel Nigeria, has announced a commitment of over N1.9 billion towards the fight against COVID-19 in Nigeria. Airtel said N200m will go towards provision of an Isolation Center or any required…
- 19 Mar 2020
COVID-19: Ecobank Encourages Customers to Adopt Digital Self-Service Solutions
The Coronavirus pandemic is rightly causing a lot of anxiety globally including Nigeria. Customers of Ecobank have been encouraged by the Bank to utilize its digital self-service solutions, including…
- 25 Aug 2014
Ebola: MMA Gets Additional Screening Equipment
In a bid to further strengthen current efforts at containing the spread of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in Nigeria, the United States Government has donated equipment worth 5,000 US Dollars to…
- 6 Jan 2025
FG to Activate Surveillance for Passengers from China amid Virus Scare
Federal government has announced plans to implement surveillance measures for inbound passengers from China, following a surge in respiratory virus cases attributed to the Human Metapneumovirus…
- 6 Oct 2020
NCC Explains Delay in 5G Deployment
Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta, executive vice chairman (EVC), Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), has said that the country is exploring the potential benefits as well as health implications of…
- 22 Dec 2021
FG Destroys 1m Expired Donated COVID-19 Vaccines
Nigeria destroyed more than 1 million expired doses of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday after authorities said they could not be used before their expiration date. Faisal Shuaib, head of…
- 23 Feb 2021
MTN Foundation Donates Medical Equipment to Primary Health Centres
MTN Foundation, the social investment vehicle of MTN Nigeria, has donated medical equipment to 12 primary health centres across Nigeria in the fourth phase of its What Can We Do Together (WCWDT)…
- 1 Dec 2021
Nigeria Found First Case of Omicron in November- NCDC
Nigeria has detected its first case of the omicron coronavirus variant in travelers who arrived from South Africa in the past week, the country’s national public health institute said Wednesday,…
- 17 Apr 2020
COVID-19: Coca-Cola, Jumia Unveil New Partnership, Gives Consumers Access To Products From Home
The Coca-Cola Company on Friday announced partnerships with leading e-commerce platform Jumia to provide access for consumers to shop for their essentials online as opposed to going to stores. …
- 7 Jul 2021
Layer3 Celebrates 16 Years of Delivering Cutting-edge Technology Solutions
Layer3, a leading IT solutions provider, marks sixteen years in business this July. Since commencing operations in 2005, it has served a continuously growing clientele across Africa with a variety of…
- 11 Aug 2014
Ebola Vaccine Ready, for Trial Next Month
World Health Organization (WHO) has said that clinical trials of a preventative vaccine for the Ebola virus made by GlaxoSmithKline, British pharmaceutical company, may begin next month and be made…
- 30 Jun 2021
MDaaS Global Raises $2.3m to Launch Digital Health Solution SentinelX in Nigeria
MDaaS Global, the healthtech company building and operating a network of modern, tech-enabled diagnostic centers across Nigeria, has raised $2.3 million in seed extension led by Newtown Partners via…
- 18 Jul 2021
Monkeypox Case Found in US on Resident who Returned from Nigeria
Monkeypox, a rare but potentially serious viral illness has been discovered at the weekend in the United States in a Dallas resident who had recently returned from Nigeria. Health officials however…
- 3 May 2020
Dangote Foundation Engages 54gene Laboratory to Conduct 1,000 COVID-19 Test per day in Kano
The Aliko Dangote Foundation (ADF), a philanthropic endeavour of Aliko Dangote, has contracted 54Gene, a molecular diagnostics company specialized in research, and diagnostics, to immediately set up…
- 8 Oct 2014
Nigeria Uses Android App with Facebook to Beat Ebola
When Nigeria was hit by its first outbreak of the Ebola virus, health workers monitoring suspected cases armed themselves with mobile phones and an Android app that cut the time it took to…
- 18 Jun 2020
MTN Spends N8Bn to Send 2Bn Free SMS in Support Of COVID-19
MTN has come out with details on how it spent N8 billion as part of the awareness of the Covid-19 campaign during the period starting from March, 2020. Ferdi Moolman, MTN chief executive officer,…
- 29 Apr 2020
COVID-19: PDP Asks NCDC to Account for N5Bn Grant from PTF
People's Democratic Party (PDP) has asked the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 to immediately account for the N5 billion released by President Buhari, as special intervention fund to the…