Health and Environment

Centre decries spike in cholera outbreak, tasks FG on urgent solutions

THE Centre for Environmental Sustainability and Development Awareness (CESDA), on Tuesday, asked the Federal Government to expedite actions on...

Handwashing: How Nigeria squandered success before COVID-19 struck – UNICEF

NIGERIA blew away a chance to make at least 30 per cent of its citizens have access to handwashing...

Nigeria begins enforcement of compulsory COVID-19 vaccine for workers on December 1

THE Nigerian government will begin the enforcement of compulsory COVID-19 vaccination for all its employees effective December 1. Consequently, all...

Plight of Abuja residents living with polio

ADAMU Musa, 35, and Maimunat, 30, are among the scores of couples living with disabilities at the Abuja Disabled...
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Africa records less than five per cent of global COVID-19 deaths

NEARLY two years after its emergence and eventual declaration as a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO), Africa's...

WHO approves malaria vaccine for children 

THE World Health Organization (WHO) has approved the administration of RTS,S/AS01 (RTS,S) malaria vaccine on children in sub-Saharan Africa. The...

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