The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, on Wednesday said that the 2021 Nigeria Malaria Indicator Survey (NMIS) would generate the much needed data to help the country review its strategies.

A former President of the Association of National Accountants of Nigeria (ANAN), Dr Samuel Nzekwe, has commended the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) for suspending its six weeks strike.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) is recommending widespread use of the world’s first malaria vaccine for the decades-long battle against the deadly disease for children at risk.

Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) says it recorded 141 new cases of COVID-19 across the country on Monday.

Over 1.7 million children are being targeted under the Anambra Government immunisation programme to prevent the outbreak of the Circulating Vaccine-derived Poliovirus Type 2 (cVDPV2) in the state.

The United Nations Children’s Education Fund (UNICEF) has sought the support of Broadcasting Organisation of Nigeria (BON) to promote the uptake of COVID-19 vaccines in the country.

Resident Doctors in tertiary hospitals have resumed work in some states of the North West on Wednesday in compliance with the directive of the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD).

The World Bank has declared as “effective“ Nigeria’s 750-million-dollars COVID-19 Action Recovery and Economic Stimulus (NG-CARES) Programme.

No fewer than 100 retired Local Government health workers on Tuesday staged a protest in Awka, over non-adjustment of their Consolidated Health Salary Structure (CONHESS) in Anambra.

The Director General, West African Health Organisation (WAHO), Prof. Stanley Okolo, says no fewer than 644,521 cases of Coronavirus (COVID-19) have been recorded in West Africa cumulatively.

Nigerians entering the United Kingdom will be subjected to COVID-19 test and isolation in spite of their COVID-19 Vaccine certificate obtained in Nigeria.

The Presidential Steering Committee(PSC) on COVID-19 has banned over 2,000 Nigerians and foreigners from traveling abroad and into the country for one year, for evading the Coronavirus Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) test at the country’s international airports.

The Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU) and Assembly of Healthcare Professional Associations (AHPA) have suspended their threat to shutdown healthcare services in the country.

 No fewer than 296 new infections and 12 COVID-19 related deaths were recorded in the country in the past 24 hours, according Tuesday morning’s update by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) in Abuja.

A Benin-based paediatrician, Dr Lucy Idemudia, has advised mothers to breastfeed their babies exclusively for the first six months of their lives to lower the risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS).

Over 1.8 million eligible people have been fully vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus, six months since Nigeria began the vaccination of its citizens, an official has said.