The World Health Organisation (WHO) has disclosed that 60 per cent of the total 10.3 million global COVID-19 cases was reported in June. Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus, Director-General of WHO, disclosed this on Wednesday during the […]
Stroke, delirium, anxiety, confusion, fatigue – the list goes on. If you think Covid-19 is just a respiratory disease, think again. As each week passes, it is becoming increasingly clear that coronavirus can trigger a […]
The fear of another pandemic that might be deadlier than COVID-19 was yesterday confirmed by two independent studies. The scientists submitted that environmental destruction might make the pandemics more likely less manageable, as a new […]
Chinese pigs are frequently becoming infected with a strain of influenza that has the potential to jump to humans, according to infectious disease researchers. Commenting on the development, Robert Webster, an influenza investigator who recently […]
Caring for children living with disabilities can be taxing and somewhat challenging. Caring for them during a pandemic assumes a new dimension. It could be frightening. Currently, our world is facing a coronavirus pandemic and […]
About 13 per cent of Kano residents tested for COVID-19 tested positive for the virus, according to an official report. The report released by the Kano State Ministry of Health was titled ‘COVID-19 response update: […]
Has Nigeria developed a vaccine against Covid-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus? News of this potentially significant development was widely shared on social media in late June 2020. A barrage of local headlines […]
On May 28, 2020, exactly three months since Nigeria’s COVID-19 index case was diagnosed, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) sent the following text message as part of dozens sent since the pandemic: “COVID-19 […]
As the world races to find a wonder drug for COVID-19, the Federal Government may have to boost its game plan if it hopes to beat the pandemic, medics have warned. As at Monday, the […]
…African countries are facing huge threats and challenges as the result of their fragile healthcare systems, insufficient public health prevention and control capacity. Some African countries would like to rely on Western countries such as […]
Dateline: Wuhan China, December 19, 2019; the novel coronavirus, a severe respiratory syndrome was first reported. Hoping it would simply go away, the nonchalant world simply took a passing notice of what would later become […]
Non-compliance to the guidelines to contain raging coronavirus has shown a huge increase in infection rates across Nigeria and Lagos in particular. Between Monday and Thursday (four days), Nigeria recorded a total of 2,395 cases. […]
Olufunke Xylopia aethiopica is in the family Annonaceae. It is a tree found in the wet tropical forest to the savannah vegetation zone in most of Africa. The tree can reach a height of 30 […]
Doctors, under the aegis of the medical guild, have issued a three-week strike notice to the Lagos state government over non-availability of necessary resources to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. Oluwajimi Sodipo, chairman of medical guild, […]
Tetrapleura tetraptera, known as aridan in Yoruba. The plant, very abundant in Ghana, is called prekese (soup perfume) in the Twi language, in Efik it is called Uyayak, in Igbo it is called Oshosho or […]
The Director General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu, has explained that the newly introduced guideline for the discharge of COVID-19 patients was based on emerging scientific evidence that shedding […]
A vaccine made of mosquito spit — that could protect people from the “next epidemic” — might be in the offing after a recent study by Jessica Manning, a US researcher. According to Reuters, in […]
Can extracts of lemongrass (Cymbopogon citratus) and cocoa (Theobroma cacao) be effectively used to induce labour during childbirth? A recent study published in Nigerian Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences concluded: “This study has shown […]
A recent study suggests that with return to a yam-and-palm-based diet and the minimisation of wheat gluten and milk lactose, the epidemic of the metabolic syndrome that currently challenges Forest West Africa and her global […]
Exposure to a type of man-made chemicals may cause menopause to occur two years earlier in women, a new study warns. US researchers found that high levels of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in blood […]
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