The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has announced that it is closely monitoring global developments related to the Human Metapneumovirus (HMPV), a respiratory...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has moved to calm the nerves of Nigerians following the detection of the COVID-19 XEC variant in...
As monkeypox cases steadily rise across Nigeria, health workers are finding themselves on the frontlines of an uphill battle. In bustling cities and quiet towns alike,...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) said on Wednesday at least 1,191 persons have been killed by diphtheria across the country in the last 17...
The Nigerian government has heightened surveillance measures to prevent the spread of Marburg Virus Disease (MVD), following Rwanda’s first outbreak declaration on September 27, 2024. Dr....
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has reported a total of 1,025 confirmed cases of Lassa fever among 8,484 suspected cases from January...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has reported nine new Lassa fever cases in Edo and Ondo States. The NCDC stated this in...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has announced that 67 confirmed cases of Mpox have been recorded in 23 states and the Federal...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has confirmed seven additional Lassa fever cases in three states in the country. The NCDC said on...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) on Tuesday said it recorded 3,623 suspected Cholera cases and 103 deaths across 34 states and the...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed 2,102 suspected cases of cholera and 63 deaths in 33 states across the country. The NCDC Director-General,...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has reported a surge in cholera cases and associated deaths across 32 states and 115 Local Government...
Nigeria’s health authorities are scrambling to contain a growing cholera outbreak after the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) activated its national emergency operations center. As...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has warned of a growing trend of cholera cases across the country, with 1,141 suspected and 65...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) said on Saturday the number of confirmed Lassa fever cases has increased significantly with 162 deaths this...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC), has confirmed that at least 150 persons died from Lassa fever in the country in the last...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has alerted that lassa fever has spread across 16 states of Nigeria with hundreds of cases recorded....
A mysterious illness has been reported in Isa local government area of Sokoto State, leaving both health authorities and community leaders confused. The Director-General of the...
The Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC), Dr. Jide Idris, has confirmed the outbreak of Lassa fever in Kaduna State. Idris,...
President Bola Tinubu has retained Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye as the Director-General of the National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC). He also named...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed the outbreak of dengue fever in Sokoto State. In a statement posted on its website and signed...
As of Thursday, there have been 15,060 reported suspected cases of diphtheria, with 9,478 confirmed cases across 137 Local Government Areas in 20 states in the...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has confirmed 1,068 Lassa fever infections in 28 states in the country. In the Week 37 Situation...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease and Prevention Control (NCDC) has confirmed 210 new cases of cholera and 10 fatalities in eight states across the country. The...
The novel Omicron subvariants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, EG.5 and BA.2.86, have not yet been discovered in Nigeria, according to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed 118 persons dead from cerebrospinal meningitis (CSM) in 22 states across the country. The agency confirmed the...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has revealed that between January and April 9th, 2023, Nigeria lost 151 people to Lassa disease. In its most...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed three fresh deaths from Lassa fever in the country. In its week 14 Lassa fever situation report...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) said on Monday at least 61 persons had been killed by diphtheria in Kano State. Diphtheria is a contagious...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has warned health workers and the general public on the threat by diphtheria. The NCDC had confirmed 25 persons...
The outbreak of a new COVID-19 variant XBB.1.5 named “Kraken” has induced concerns amongst the Nigerian populace. These concerns are connected to a pronouncement by the...
These top 10 stories across the nation’s newspapers might interest you. 1. ‘Nigerians cannot entrust the future in the hands of Mr. Stingy or Mr. Privatization,’...
At least 189 people died from Lassa fever in Nigeria in 2022, the country’s centre for disease control has revealed. In its Lassa fever situation report...
Nigeria recorded 35 new COVID-19 cases in the last week of December 2022. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) confirmed the development in a statement...
At least 160 million of Nigeria’s estimated 206 million people are currently at danger of contracting the yellow fever disease, according to the World Health Organization...
The pervasive transmission of false information regarding the monkeypox virus, particularly in Nigeria, has been criticized by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). Ifedayo Adetifa,...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has revealed that it has assisted Nigeria with over $6.8 billion following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. The...
The first confirmed case of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on 27 February 2020 welcomed Nigeria to the global health problem. Despite Nigerian government’s effort to control and...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) announced on Monday that there are no particular therapies for monkeypox. Nigerians should also take precautions to avoid catching...
The National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has recorded 48 new cases and 11 deaths, according to its week two update of the centre’s Lassa fever...
The death toll from Lassa fever in Nigeria has increased to 92 since January, with Bauchi and Ebonyi States recording new fatalities. The Nigeria Centre for...
In this features, KELECHUKWU IRUOMA goes into the rural communities of Bayelsa State, south-south Nigeria to uncover the plight of residents plague with monkey pox disease,...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed three new cases of COVID-19 with the B.1.1.529 SARS-CoV-2 lineage (Omicron variant) in Nigeria. This was in...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Wednesday confirmed three cases of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 in Nigeria. The Omicron variant also known as...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has frowned at the imposition of travel bans by various countries in the aftermath of the breakout of the...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) said on Monday the Delta variant is still the dominant COVID-19 strain in the country. The NCDC Director-General, Dr....
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, on Tuesday, called for the prosecution of owners and staff of private laboratories issuing fake COVID-19...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Saturday confirmed 3,208 deaths from 88,704 suspected cholera cases reported in the 31 states and the Federal Capital...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Monday called for vigilance and adherence to COVID-19 protocols as students return to schools across the country. The...
The Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) has disclosed that the country is averaging more than 700 new cases daily as the COVID-19 Delta variant spreads...