GUARDIAN As the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic continues to ravage the world, strident reactions, yesterday, trailed Edo State government’s decision to make COVID-19 vaccination compulsory for its people. With Edo State at 5,341, currently seventh on the log…
LEADERSHIP The Bayelsa State government has assured that all its referral hospitals in the state’s eight local government areas would be fully functional by the end of this year. The deputy governor, Mr Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo, gave the assurance on Saturday…
THE NATION THE Africa Centre for Disease Control (ACDC) and the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) have launched an investigation into the nature of the new variant of COVID-19 found in Nigeria. The variant was found in two patients’…
DAILY POST The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Thursday recorded 1,145 new infections of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the country. The NCDC confirmed this on its verified website. One death was also recorded in the country. The…
THE NATION INFECTED young people within age 20 and 40 bracket are responsible for the rapid spread of Coronavirus in the country, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) said on Thursday. The agency also restated that the elderly are…
PREMIUM TIMES The Senate has mandated its Committee on Health (Primary and Communicable Disease) to meet with the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) following reports of mysterious deaths recorded in Bonny Island, Rivers State. The upper chamber while urging the…
DAILY POST The Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Chikwe Ihekweazu, has said that COVID-19 diagnostic test kits are being sold in “black markets”. Ihekweazu stated this while speaking at the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 briefing…
NIGERIAN TRIBUNE The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced 226 new confirmed cases of coronavirus in the country. This brings the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the country to 6,401, Tribune Online reports. The NCDC made…
THE GUARDIAN Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike has faulted the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) for building coronavirus laboratories in Lagos, Ogun and Kano states and failing to building one in the oil-rich state. He said the country does…
THE GUARDIAN Confusion and fear held sway yesterday in Kano as the government and the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) presented conflicting figures on the coronavirus disease cases in the state. At 10:25 a.m. on Wednesday, the Ministry of…