The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) says it is supporting Delta and Enugu States in their battle against a suspected outbreak of yellow fever. Speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday in Abuja, its Director-General, Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, said the support became expedient following the reports of a sudden spike in ...

The National Economic Council (NEC) has asked governors to  supervise the newly formed  police tactical units and other security agencies in their states. NEC made this resolution at the end of its fifth virtual meeting presided over by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The council also directed the immediate establishment of ...

The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has donated 115,000 COVID-19 test kits to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) to assist Federal Government’s efforts to curb the Coronavirus pandemic. The UNICEF Representative, Ms. Rushnan  Murtaza, said this on Tuesday during the donation at the NCDC National Reference Laboratory in Abuja. According to her, the donation ...

The Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 has disbursed N1billion each to 32 states in the country amid the pandemic. PTF Coordinator, Dr Sani Aliyu announced the disbursement of the sum on Monday during a briefing in Abuja, the nation’s capital. “We have released money to the state governments recently. Each state government was given a ...

Nigeria is considering partnerships between state governments and private firms to ramp up testing and tracing of coronavirus cases after international flights resume this month, the head of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) said. Nigeria will reopen its airports for international flights from Aug. 29. They have been closed since March 23 to ...

Dr Vincent Okpala, Commissioner for Health in Anambra, on Tuesday said that no fewer than 25 health workers were diagnosed and confirmed to have been infected with the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the state. The commissioner disclosed this while speaking at the opening ceremony of a two-day COVID-19 Infection Prevention and Control Training of Trainers ...

A Jos-based virologist, Dr Solomon Chollom, has attributed the spike in COVID-19 nosocomial infections in the country to weak Infection Preventive Control (IPC) measures. Chollom told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Abuja that COVID-19 infections had assumed a nosocomial dimension in some states, with health workers and hospitalised patients involved. A ...

The Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, has asked the House of Representatives not to suspend plenary over coronavirus. Dr Ihekweazu who was on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily programme on Thursday urged the lawmakers to support the efforts of experts by providing a budget that is sustainable in curtailing ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) says 812 health workers have tested positive for coronavirus (COVID-19). The Director-General of the NCDC, Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu disclosed this on Tuesday at the daily Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 press briefing. He said that 29 officials of the NCDC were among the health workers who got exposed ...

The Kogi state government has rejected the two COVID-19 positive cases announced by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control. In its daily report of new cases on Wednesday, the NCDC said Kogi had recorded its first two cases. Kogi state and Cross River were previously the only states not to have recorded a case of ...