The Federal Government has approved the sum of N8.49billion for the procurement of test kits by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) at the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting on Wednesday. The meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari approved N8.49billion for the procurement of 12 items in various quantities for the testing of ...

U.S Ambassador Mary Beth Leonard officially handed over 200 brand-new, leading edge ventilators to the Nigerian Minister of Health Dr. Osagie Ehanire to support the government’s efforts against the COVID-19 pandemic at an August 11, 2020 ceremony at the Abuja Premier Medical Warehouse.  The United States, U.S, Government has handed over 200 modern ventilators to ...

Dr Sani Aliyu, the Coordinator, Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19, has said that positive cases of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) gradually coming down as the daily results now revolves around 400. He made this known at the daily briefing of the PTF on Monday in Abuja, warning, however, that the reduction was not in a ...

The Federal Government on Thursday declared that the much talked about “Madagascar COVID-19  herb syrup did not show any evidence that it had real curative properties against COVID-19. The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, made the disclosure  in Abuja at the 52nd Joint National Briefing of the Presidential Task Force (PTF), on COVID-19. According ...

The Federal Government on Friday solicited the collaboration of  the Government of India to produce vaccine against the COVID-19. The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, said this in Abuja at the handing over ceremony of medicines donated by Indian Government to the Federal Republic of Nigeria to aid the fight against COVID-19. Ehanire told ...

The Federal Government says the strike by the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) was “needless and insensitive” because issues raised by the association had received attention. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed made this known at a media briefing on Sunday in Abuja. The briefing was jointly addressed by Mohammed and ...

  The Federal Government has announced the release of the sum of N4.5 billion to 31 Federal Teaching and Medical Centres across the country. The sum is to cover hazard and inducement allowances for the month of April and May. The Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, disclosed this on Friday while briefing State ...

  The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire has appealed to resident doctors in the country to call off their strike, saying the present government will keep to its promises to them. Dr Ehanire made the appeal on Friday in an interview on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily. Ehanire who was reacting to claims that the ...

The governor of Kano State, Abdullahi Ganduje has said that the report of the Federal Government attributing about half of the deaths in the State to COVID-19 lacked variables and correlations. Ganduje noted this while receiving the report from the Kano State Investigative Panel on Mysterious Deaths on Tuesday which stated that only 15.9 per ...

About 60 per cent of the 979 deaths reported in Kano State may have been triggered by coronavirus. The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, confirmed this on Monday at the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 daily media briefing. He noted that the figures were the outcome of an investigation carried out by the Federal ...