By Chioma Obinna The Nigerian Union of Allied Health Professionals, NUAHP, on Wednesday, demanded life insurance scheme and immediate payment of N100, 000 special COVID-19 allowances to all health workers at the frontline of the war against the disease as presently done to other health workers globally. Making the demand in a press statement jointly […]

By Chioma Obinna The Lagos State branch of the Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, and the Medical Guild yesterday alleged undue “harassment” of medical doctors and other health workers in Lagos even as they decried what they described as ‘uncomplimentary’ statement credited to the State Commissioner of Police, CP,  Mr. Hakeem Odumosu on the movements of […]

by peter duru Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State has apologized to retirees and workers of the state over the inability of successive governments to find a lasting solution to the nagging backlog of unpaid pensions in the state. The Governor who tendered the apology in Makurdi while flagging off Contributory Pension Scheme, CPS, for […]

As PharmAccess, HCPAN train health workers on safety By Gabriel Olawale The Country Director of PharmAccess Foundation, Njide Ndili has expressed concern over the quality of healthcare infrastructure in Nigeria, saying that, “it is high time each state takes complete ownership of healthcare services”. Speaking during a capacity building for healthcare providers under auspices of […]

by jimitota onoyume Former workers of defunct Delta Steel Company, DSC, limited, Delta State have pleaded with President of the Senate, Senator Ahmed Lawan, to intervene over the unpaid 150 per cent and 30 per cent pension increment approved for public pensioners in the country 21 years ago. Under the aegis of Concerned Pensioners, Delta […]

By Sola Ogundipe The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, has launched a WhatsApp service to engage Nigerians on how to curtail the spread of coronavirus, COVID-19, in the country. Announcing the development in a tweet on Sunday, the health agency explained that the new platform allows for a two-way engagement on the WhatsApp platform […]

By Chioma Obinna Nigerian Pathologists, weekend expressed concern over the inadequacy of COVID-19 testing centres across the country even as they urged the Federal government to substantially decentralise the testing centres as a strategy to accelerate the control of the outbreak. The Pathologists also frowned at a lack of laboratory testing in tertiary health institutions […]

The United Nations in Nigeria on Tuesday declared it is taking emergency preparedness and response measures to mitigate the spread of Coronavirus to the most vulnerable crisis-affected people in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states. These measures also address immediate humanitarian consequences of the Coronavirus pandemic should it spread to north-east Nigeria. “We will not wait […]

Human trials to begin Sept 2020 By Sola Ogundipe Johnson & Johnson as part of the commitment to bringing an affordable vaccine to the public on a not-for-profit basis for emergency pandemic use has announced the selection of a lead COVID-19 vaccine candidate from constructs it has been working on since January 2020,  and it […]

Where we are and how we got here In Late December China informed the world about COVID-19 that was ravaging Wuhan While COVID-19 was ravaging China, some countries prepared for a possible outbreak in their countries, others just watched, waited and hoped it would not cross into their borders. It turns out that those who […]