Experts are warning that subsequent COVID-19 variants are likely to come after Omicron variant.

The COVAX global vaccine-sharing programme has delivered one billion COVID-19 vaccine doses globally, however, supplies to poorer nations are limited because of lack of vaccines.

By Olasunkanmi Akoni LAGOS—A former member of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Dipo Olorunrinu, yesterday, urged the former governor of the state, Bola Tinubu, to intervene in the crisis rocking the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Amuwo-Odofin Local Government Area, and proffer a solution. He also said Tinubu has every right to lead Nigeria, considering […]

Save the Children International, Nigeria,  has applauded the Borno State Government, and the House of Assembly for passing the Child Protection Bill into law

With 8,000 Nigeria women dying from cervical cancer annually, experts have raised the alarm that prevention and treatment of cervical cancer were largely crippled by a lack of awareness and knowledge of the disease as well as proper infrastructure in the country.

The Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Andersons Pharmaceuticals Ltd, Mr. Bright Edom has admonished Nigerians to be moderate in sugar consumption says uncontrolled use can fuel non communicable diseases such as diabetic.

RESIDENTS of Igbedi community, a fishing and farming settlement on the bank of the Igbedi Creek, Kolokuma-Opokuma Local Government Area, Bayelsa State, are overjoyed as the link road to the area is about 90 per cent completed.

Defends direct primary  By Adesina Wahab LAGOS—SPEAKER of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, yesterday, declared that the possession of a minimum of secondary school certificate or its equivalent, by persons seeking election into public offices, is no longer in tandem with the present realities. He, however, called for the amendment of Section 131 (d) of […]

Stakeholders in the fight against Non-Communicable Diseases, NCDs has said that the introduction of  N10 per litre excise duty on soft drinks would reduce the burden of diseases as well as increase government revenue. 

By Emmanuel Elebeke NIGERIA is to launch a second satellite (Sat 2) into the orbit to boost the nation’s satellite communications’ capacity. The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Prof. Isa Ali Pantami, who disclosed this at a one-day working visit and interactions with staff of Nigerian satellite Communications, Abuja, said he had secured the approval […]