The Senate said it has considered a bill seeking to give legislative backing for the establishment of the Federal College of Traditional, Complimentary and Alternate Medicine as an agency under the Federal Ministry of Health.
A statement by the Special Assistant (Press) to President of the Senate, Ezrel Tabiowo said,...
The Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu has stated that the ministry is currently verifying claims for the cure of Covid-19.
He made this known in a press release after the ministry's quarterly management meeting with its agencies, Monday in Abuja
According to the statement, the Minister said that...
The Acting Secretary, Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Health and Human Service Secretariat, Dr. Mohammed Kawu has declared Karu General hospital ready with necessary facilities and equipment to cater for would be patients of the COVID 19 in FCT.
Kawu, who made this declaration during an inspection visit to the isolation...
Nigeria has tested less than one percent of the estimated 205 million population for the novel Coronavirus Infectious Disease (COVID-19), data have proved.
According to data from Worldometer, a wikipedia tool for collating data on COVID-19 collated on 13th of April 2020, Nigeria has 228 active cases. It had tested...
The spread of the coronavirus in Nigeria has affected nineteen states and the Federal Capital Territory Abuja.
So far, only 17 out of 36 states in Nigeria, is free of the virus.
The states are; Abia, Adamawa, Bayelsa, Borno, Cross River, Ebonyi, Gombe, Imo, Jigawa, Kebbi, Kogi, Nasarawa, Plateau, Sokoto, Taraba,...
The Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Chikwe Ihekweazu has disclosed that 90 per cent of COVID-19 patients recover without any intervention.
Ihekweazu disclosed this at the media briefing of the presidential task force on COVID-19 on Wednesday.
He was responding to a question on how the Governor...
A recent statement made by the Nigeria Finance Minister, Mrs. Zeinab Ahmed, on Politics Today on Channels Television that if the current Coronavirus pandemic, CONVID-19, is prolonged in containing, the economy may once again slip into another recession.
The Honourable Minister was only being economical with the truth. The Minister...
