Tag: Chikwe Ihekweazu

The partnership seeks to improve access to essential health services, particularly in underserved communities

Before this, Mr Ihekweazu was appointed in February as the Acting WHO Regional Director for Africa, taking over from Matshidiso ...

The report revealed that nearly 80 per cent of nurses serve only 49 per cent of the world’s population.

Mr Tinubu described the appointments as part of “his commitment to deliver affordable and quality care to all Nigerians under ...

While accepting the baton of leadership, Adetifa revealed his future plans for the agency.

The official says the progression of the COVID-19 pandemic had shown that ”COVID-19 is a disease, which we will have ...

The former NCDC boss was recently appointed an assistant director-general of the World Health Organisation (WHO)

The Minister said: “we’re not a United Nations’ country, we are a developing country. So, when such figures are given ...

Since the coronavirus outbreak in early 2020, Mr Ihekweazu has led Nigeria's public health response to the pandemic through the ...

The conference, organised by NCDC, is aimed at strengthening the country’s preparedness for emergencies in cases of infection outbreaks.

The NCDC boss called for collaboration with corps members to ensure sustenance of the COVID-19 measures across the country

However, the ban has caused a delay in accessing the infections’ daily tally from the disease centre.

Council welcomes Digital Switch Over starting in Lagos, Kano and Rivers states.

He listed the concerned states to include Lagos, Oyo, Kano, Kaduna, Plateau, Rivers and the federal capital territory, FCT.

“As Nigerians plan to celebrate Easter and begin Ramadan, it is very important to remember the public health and social ...

Nigeria remains one of the 30 countries globally with the highest burden of tuberculosis.

Two years before the COVID-19 arrived in Nigeria and four years after the Ebola outbreak, Nigerian authorities began developing the ...

Nigeria on Tuesday took delivery of nearly four million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine

The survey was conducted by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC).

On February 27, it will be exactly one year since Nigeria reported its first COVID-19 infection.

NCDC says it is improving the quality of data and ensuring laboratories can focus on testing of samples

The NCDC on Monday released an update which now includes 170 new cases and one death from Lagos.

Mr Ihekweazu noted that COVID-19 test samples were collected by the centre but there was no evidence that the tests ...

NCDC says it will now provide the COVID-19 sample testing data weekly

The official said the Nigerian government is worried about the high number of health workers getting infected.