Lassa Fever: Death toll hits 221 as fatality rate rises above 2025 level – NCDC
The agency disclosed this in its Lassa fever situation report for epidemiological week 26, released on Friday
The agency disclosed this in its Lassa fever situation report for epidemiological week 26, released on Friday
It forecast chances of thunderstorms accompanied by moderate rains over parts of Taraba, Adamawa and Kaduna states during the morning ...
The figures were announced on Thursday during a joint security briefing at the National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC) in Abuja, ...
APC said the substitutions followed the consideration and approval of recommendations submitted by the party’s Primary Election Appeal Committee.
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Some residents said on Monday in Jalingo that the situation was affecting the quality of service delivery.
Messrs Amaechi and Hayatu-Deen have, in separate statements, rejected the results even before the collation began on Tuesday.
Mr Kente spoke on Wednesday in Wukari, while formally declaring his bid to challenge Governor Agbu Kefas for the APC ...
“From September 2025, there has been a resurgence of attacks by criminals on communities in southern part of Taraba..."
Mr Mamman, a governorship aspirant, has aligned with aggrieved party members and media volunteers who are demanding direct primaries to ...
Speaking to PREMIUM TIMES, local merchants explained that the curfew has halted the movement of essential supply vehicles which led ...
Mr Gebi, a lawmaker in the 7th House of Representatives, was arrested by operatives of the State Security Service (SSS) ...
This shows “a persistent and growing protection crisis”, the Executive of the NHRC, Tony Ojukwu, said on Thursday.
Cumulatively, 21 states and 82 local government areas have recorded at least one confirmed case in 2026.
In its latest situation report covering Epidemiological Week 10 (2-8 March 2026), the agency disclosed that five states - Bauchi, ...
The NCDC said the case fatality rate currently stands at 23.2 per cent, higher than the 18.7 per cent recorded ...
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At the APC state congress held in Jalingo late Tuesday, Abubakar Bawa, until recently the PDP chairman in the state, ...
"My uncle and nine other captives deserve to come home. Not because of who I am. Because of who he ...
New infections were reported in Ondo, Bauchi, Taraba, Edo, Plateau, Gombe, Nasarawa, Kano, Ebonyi, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Kogi, ...
Mr Idris said transporting samples from remote communities to state laboratories remains expensive and logistically difficult, particularly in hard-to-reach areas, ...
He disclosed that 15 healthcare workers have also been infected in the current outbreak.
The 74 confirmed cases in Week 6 were reported in Taraba, Ondo, Bauchi, Edo, Benue, Nasarawa, Kogi and Ebonyi states.
The minister said the federal government had already procured and distributed boats to operate on waterways in different parts of ...
According to her, the alleged deaths from Lassa fever at the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Orientation Camp in the ...
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