Nigeria has become the first country in the world to roll out a new meningitis vaccine (Men5CV). The vaccine recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO)...
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, said on Thursday more than 30,000 people have been killed in the Gaza Strip since Israel...
The Director General of World Health Organisation (WHO), Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus, has described the year 2023 as a year of achievements and “avoidable suffering.” Ghebreyesus, while...
The World Health Organization (WHO), has confirmed that one of its employees had been killed in Gaza alongside her six-month-old baby, husband and two brothers. A...
The World Health Organization (WHO), says it plans to evacuate patients from Gaza’s biggest hospital, Al-Shifa, as it had become a “death zone,” following constant bombardment...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) will send about 100 trucks carrying humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip daily. The WHO regional emergency director for the Eastern...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Tuesday condemned the deadly attack on a hospital in northern Gaza. Hundreds of people were reportedly killed and injured when...
The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday that 51 new cases of Circulating Variant Polio Virus (cVPV2) had been detected in Nigeria. The WHO Country...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has condemned the attack in Somalia that left 16 people dead, including its staff. At least 10 others were injured in...
These top 10 stories across the nation’s newspapers might interest you. 1. Court of Appeal gets fresh suit seeking to stop Tinubu’s inauguration The Court of...
The R21/Matrix-M malaria vaccine, which has been given provisional approval by the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), still needs to go...
The World Health Organisation (WHO), has called on countries to conduct more surveillance following a reported death of over 300 children from the use of contiminated...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has proposed shorter isolation days for people with COVID-19. In a statement issued on Friday, the United Nations agency recommended a...
The World Health Organization (WHO), has renamed Monkeypox as Mpox citing racist stigma that follows the disease’s original name which plays into “racist and stigmatizing language,”...
The Adamawa government claims it has recorded no fewer than 197 cases of cholera, with two deaths across six affected local government areas of the state....
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 World Health Organisation on Saturday officially declared the monkeypox disease as a global health emergency. The WHO Director-General, Dr. Tedros Ghebreyesus, made the declaration during...
Reports by World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF has revealed that global vaccination coverage has declined with 25 million infants missing out on lifesaving vaccines in...
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday urged countries of the world to be vigilant and strengthen capacities in order to prevent the spread of monkeypox....
The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Thursday the COVID-19 pandemic killed 14.9 million people globally in the last two years. In a statement in Geneva,...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Tuesday, April 26, announced the outbreak of the Ebola disease in Africa following the demise of two people from the...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Monday Nigeria recorded more than 100,000 suspected cases of cholera in 2021. The WHO Country Representative in Nigeria, Dr....
Rwanda is one of the few countries in Africa to vaccinate over 60 percent of its population for CCOVID-19, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO)....
World Health Organization on Thursday warned Nigerians to continue to keep to safety protocols on the COVID-19 pandemic. The WHO Representative in Nigeria, Dr. Walter Kazadi,...
The World Health Organisation’s Regional Director for Africa, Dr Matshidiso Moeti has called on African leaders to increase investment in the care of cancer for their...
With a piteous voice and teary eyes, Isiaku Ajarat reflected on some of the challenges she had faced while trekking for about 10km to get water...
The Oyo State government has set up a surveillance system in all local government areas following an outbreak of Lassa fever in the Iwajowa area of...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Saturday recommended two new drugs for the treatment of COVID-19. The drugs – Baricitinib and Sotrovimab – were recommended for...
French scientists have discovered a new Covid-19 variant named B.1.640.2, believed to contain 46 mutations of the original strain of the virus. The new variant was...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Wednesday COVID-19 would continue to evolve and threaten health systems across the world if effective response was not deployed...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has predicted the year 2022 as the end of the COVID-19 pandemic across the world. The WHO Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus,...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has issued an emergency use listing (EUL) for NVX-CoV2373 to increase access to vaccination in lower income countries. This has raised...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that rich countries are likely to resume hoarding the COVID-19 vaccines, which could threaten global supplies, as they seek...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has condemned the travel bans imposed on 10 southern African nations by countries around the world, following the discovery of a...
The new variant of Covid-19 recently discovered by South African scientists have been renamed ‘Omnicron’ by the World Health Organization (WHO). The world health body said...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Thursday only 27 percent of health workers in Africa have been fully vaccinated for COVID-19. The WHO Regional Director...
A report by the World Health Organization (WHO) has revealed that some 80,000 to 180,000 healthcare workers globally are estimated to have died from COVID-19 between...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has approved the rollout of the first malaria vaccine in Africa. The WHO Director-General, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who confirmed the...
The Federal Government has said over 1.6 million eligible persons have been fully vaccinated. The Executive-Director, National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), Dr. Faisal Shuaib,...
The Director General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (Chikwe Ihekweazu, has gotten an appointment with the World Health Organisation (WHO) as its Assistant Director...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Tuesday the third wave of COVID-19 was stabilising in Africa. The WHO Representative in Nigeria, Dr. Walter Kazadi Mulombo,...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) confirmed on Wednesday that three new drugs are undergoing clinical trials in a bid to find effective treatments for COVID-19. The...
The World Health Organisation on Tuesday issued a warning to African countries over the emergence of a highly infectious haemorrhagic virus similar to Ebola that has...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has donated 26 ventilators and 3, 560 fingertip oxygen pulse oximeters to Nigeria. The WHO’s Country Representative in Nigeria, Dr. Walter...
The World Health Organisation on Wednesday called for a moratorium on COVID-19 vaccine booster shots until at least the end of September. According to the apex...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Saturday donated 1.5 million doses of cholera vaccine to Bauchi State. The Executive Chairman of the State Primary Health Care...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Thursday the Delta variant of COVID-19 has spread to 16 countries across the world. The WHO Regional Director for...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said Africa needs additional 200 million COVID-19 vaccine doses to vaccinate 10 per cent of its population by September this...
Despite controversies surrounding the Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has called for the continuous use of the vaccine. In a statement on its...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Office for Africa said Sunday marked one year since COVID-19 hit the continent. The United Nations health agency disclosed this...
