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 ...

Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire   The Federal Government says pathologists from Bauchi, Katsina, Jigawa, Yobe, and other high burden states, are to undergo training in Kano State, for investigation of unexplained deaths in their states. This was disclosed by the Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, during the Presidential Taskforce (PTF), briefing on ...

Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire   Health Minister Osagie Ehanire has revealed plans by the Federal Government and the Federal Ministry of Health to get the Madagascar herbal cure for COVID-19. The Minister disclosed this on Monday while briefing journalists at the Presidential Task Force briefing on COVID-19. The Minister stressed that all countries ...

The Presidential Task Force (PTF), has called on Governors to address the “Almajiri” pupils issues squarely, to avoid further spread  of the Coronavirus pandemic in the country.  Mr Boss Mustapha, Secretary to the Government of the Federation and PTF chairman on COVID-19, made the call during the task force daily briefing on Wednesday in Abuja. Mustapha ...