•Lassa fever The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention today, confirmed 506 Lassa fever cases out of the 2,492 suspected cases of the disease, and 95 deaths as of February 23, 2025. The situation report of the hemorrhagic fever for week eight also showed that the disease has spread to 12 states and 70 […]
Nigeria recorded a total of 1,154 Lassa fever cases with 190 deaths this year, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC), has said. The Director General of the agency, Dr Jide Idris, stated this today in Abuja while giving an update on the Lassa fever outbreak in the country, reports Daily Trust. He […]
Governor Francis Nwifuru of Ebonyi State has confirmed that the state has recorded 23 deaths and 48 confirmed cases of Lassa fever between January and December 2024. Nwifuru reported that 25 individuals infected with Lassa fever were treated and discharged, expressing grief over those who lost their lives and commending Doctors Without Borders...
•Akpabio Senate President Godswill Akpabio has said Nigeria has experienced more jailbreaks since the change of name from prison service to correctional centers. He stated this during plenary yesterday in Abuja, while commenting on two legislations billed for concurrence, reports Daily Trust. They are the bill to repeal and enact the law estab...
Repairs and revenue losses from damaged cables are estimated to have cost Nigeria’s telecom industry almost N27 billion ($23 million) in 2023, according to documents obtained by Bloomberg. According to the report, MTN Nigeria and Airtel Africa Plc bore the brunt of the costs. MTN suffered more than 6,000 cuts on its fibre cable last […]...
The World Health Organisation, yesterday, warned that the coronavirus disease is still a major threat despite partially passing under the radar. The United Nations agency noted that almost 10,000 COVID-19 deaths were reported in December, saying data from various sources pointed to increased transmission last month, fuelled by gatherings over ...
No fewer than 157 incidents of crude oil theft were recorded in the Niger Delta between December 30, 2023 and January 5, 2024. The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited said the cases were recorded from several incidence sources like Nigeria Agip Oil, 62; Pipeline Infrastructure Nigeria Limited, 29; Maton Engineering Limited, 18; Tantita...
•People sit in front of a fan during a heatwave in Beijing The year 2023 was the hottest on record, with the increase in Earth’s surface temperature nearly crossing the critical threshold of 1.5 degrees Celsius, EU climate monitors said today. Climate change intensified heatwaves, droughts and wildfires across the planet, and pushed the global...
The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) says that Nigeria recorded a total of 77,000 new HIV infections and 43,000 AIDS-related deaths in 2022. The National Programme officer of the organization, Doris Ogbang made the disclosure yesterday in Abuja during the commemoration of World AIDS Day (WAD), by the UN system in Nigeria, re...
•Late Dr. Chike Akunyili Obum Akunyili, one of the children of a former Director General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, late Prof. Dora Akunyili, said his late father, Chike, would not have died if medical intervention was provided at the scene of his attack. Obum also stated that people […]
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