New coronavirus infections jumped 23 percent in the Americas last week, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) said, warning that the region could potentially be on track to follow trends in Europe, where several countries are issuing lockdown amid surging cases. PAHO Director Carissa Etienne said there were 880,583 new COVID-19 infections in the Americas…
Trust Africa News, By Ayomide Otitoju As part of activities to mark the World Diabetes Day, the Olusegun Obasanjo Foundation (OOF) has flagged-off its free diabetes screening campaign for 10million Nigerians across the country. The ceremony which held at the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library Complex Abeokuta, Ogun state attracted dignitaries from all works of life….
The National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) says more than three million eligible Nigerians have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19. The Executive Director, NPHCDA, Dr Faisal Shuaib, said this at the bi-weekly briefing of the Presidential Steering Committee (PSC) on Monday in Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that this represented the…
The Presidential Steering Committee (PSC ) on COVID-19 said some citizens were still procuring vaccination cards through the black market. Speaking at the national briefing of the PSC on Monday in Abuja, the Chairman and Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr Boss Mustapha, said, “We have received intelligence and even detected that some…
The position of the governor of Kogi State, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, on the monetary ‘management’ of the Covid-19 have kept on being enhanced across the world as global leaders continue to repeat the expressions of the governor even at the just finished up United Nations Conference for Climate Change (COP26) in Glasgow. Governor Bello, reacting…
The Community Health Practitioners Registration Board of Nigeria (CHPRBN), has moved to ensure the elimination of quacks among practitioners. Alhaji Bashir Idris, Registrar of CHPRBN, stated this when Aluta News paid him a visit on Tuesday in Abuja. Idris described community health practitioners as specially trained professionals, who provided primitive, preventive, curative and rehabilitative health…
Access Bank Plc and Xploit Consulting Ltd. on Friday donated 40 handwashing facilities to 20 schools in Sokoto and Kebbi states to curtail the spread of COVID-19. Mrs Grace Taiwo, the Director, Communication, Xploit consulting Ltd, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in an interview in Abuja. Taiwo said that the two organisations collaborated…
A 17-year-old girl, Wehinmi Samson, has been abandoned at a private hospital in Sapele, Delta State over N270,000 unpaid bills, one month after she gave birth to twins at the hospital. Wehinmi told Vanguard, yesterday, in Sapele that the boy, who impregnated her, absconded when he learned that she had twins October 4. “He has…
Nigeria on Monday recorded 711 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the total infections in the country to 211,171. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control(NCDC), disclosed this on its website on Tuesday morning. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), reports that the 711 new cases reported on Monday, indicates an increase from the 165 cases posted previously in…
