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Mr Gusau said Mr Arab, a professor, will take over from Muhammad Aminu, who has been appointed as a Permanent...

Tooth discoloration is abnormal tooth colour that can be caused by numerous local oral systemic factors

The crisis, which has affected men, women and children alike, has resulted in widespread displacement, infrastructure destruction, and the collapse...

Case tracing of people suffering from Tuberculosis in the country has slowed down in recent month due to COVID-19

COVID-19 cases on the continent have doubled in the past six weeks.

According to the research, a man was infected with COVID-19 for the second time

India, a country of 1.3 billion, has so far reported 2,905,823 infections.

Ondo State has witnessed 30 deaths so far from COVID-19, far less when compared to the fatalities from the Lassa...

In March, the vaccine became the first in China to be approved to enter clinical trials.

The global tally of confirmed cases of the virus has exceeded 21 million.

Vaccines can take years to develop and test but many countries have accelerated efforts in a bid to slow the...

But while figures of fatalities are piling in the homeland thus far, there is no official count of Nigerians in...

SMC is designed to prevent and protect children against malaria.

The activists say African governments are yet to put strong measures to combat the increasing use of tobacco on the...

The number of confirmed cases in Madagascar reached 7,153 on Monday, including 62 deaths.

The door-to-door campaign to vaccinate 800,000 children under the age of five is scheduled to last three days in polio...

Covid-19 has changed the world, but African communities are working to innovate in the face of the crisis.

A senior WHO official said that the topic of schools reopening have become a “political football”, which is not fair...

Health care workers are the soldiers on the front lines in the battle against coronavirus.

The report says Coronavirus is deepening the hunger crisis in the world’s hunger hotspots and creating new epicentres of hunger...

We realised that the virus has changed, a mutation.

Gambo Aliyu is the Director General of the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA). In this exclusive interview...

This announcement dashes all hope that hydroxychloroquine, as well as the related drug chloroquine, could be an option at a...

The leaders, in the statement, urged manufacturers of essential malaria commodities to ensure the consistent availability of products and maintain...

Despite progress made in testing for COVID-19, countries in Africa are averaging nine tests per 10 000 people.