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The officials also speak about the various successes Nigeria has achieved in the health sector in the past few years.

The various health workers’ unions accuse the government of focusing attention on “frontline workers” and that those saddled with the responsibility of manning the various public health facilities are ignored.

As countries focus energy and resources on containing coronavirus, achieving the global target to end malaria by 2030 has become even more unlikely, health experts said.

Many are calling on the government to provide the necessary facilities for online classes for students at all levels who are currently out of school due to coronavirus.

African Centre of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Diseases (ACEGID) is collaborating with Cambridge University in the United Kingdom to produce a vaccine against coronavirus.

What happens next in Cuba will depend largely on the amount of testing. An indicator of commitment to this task is the ratio of tests to reported cases.

A government is using mobile phone data, credit card information and facial recognition software to track people who test positive for COVID-19.

The World Health Organisation said over 3,000 health workers have been infected with coronavirus globally while many died in the process of offering care to patients.

In Nigeria, 145 babies are born to every 1,000 girls aged 15-19 annually.

Healthcare professionals and this includes nurses and midwives, are on the front line of the battle with COVID-19 pandemic.

Germany, the country with the world’s highest COVID-19 testing rates and an early adopter of drive-through testing provides lessons and parallels, as Lagos pioneers free mobile testing in West Africa.

Nigeria is experiencing subtle cases of stigmatisation of patients as the virus wrecks economies and livelihoods across the globe.

The outbreak as a whole was kept in one regional location which allowed more sufficient management elsewhere.

Abuja, the Nigerian capital, has at least six confirmed cases of the coronavirus.

Simply put, the difference between these three scenarios of disease spread is a matter of scale.

March 22 every year is set aside as World Water Day. The theme for 2020 is “Water and Climate Change.”

After years of abandonment, the government this week began the process of clearing the refuse dump at the property.

The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Community and Social Development Project (CSDP), a World Bank finance assisted project, has executed about 200 projects in poor Abuja communities.

Pneumonia is a leading childhood killer disease in Nigeria. In 2018 alone, 162,000 children died from pneumonia, making Nigeria the country with the highest number of pneumonia-related deaths in the world.

The Senate is holding a public hearing on a new bill to protect persons with mental health and substance abuse problems.

There have been initiatives in Nigeria to develop local technology. But in my experience, these initiatives fail to get traction.

The study found that supplements containing zinc and folic acid previously used to treat infertility in men make no difference.