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Nigeria Grammy award winners have joined the stellar cast of international change-makers turning pressure against the fight against malaria, the second chapter of the multi-award-winning Draw the Line Against Malaria campaign to be launched today. In a world still reeling from the far-reaching impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, with global health security and pandemic […]
The Director-General, World Health Organisation (WHO), Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus, has warned that COVID-19 is not over in spite of reports that COVID-19 cases and deaths have declined significantly. Ghebreyesus said this at the opening of the World Health Assembly on Sunday at Geneva, Switzerland. World Health Assembly is the decision-making body of […]
North Korea says six people have died amid an ‘explosive’ spread of fever, a day after it acknowledged a COVID-19 outbreak. North Korea said Friday that 187,000 people were being “isolated and treated” for fever. “A fever whose cause couldn’t be identified explosively spread nationwide from late April,” the official Korean Central News Agency […]
Australia on Thursday released the last refugees held in a former hotel where tennis superstar Novak Djokovic was spectacularly detained earlier this year, activists said. The eight men held in the Melbourne facility were originally in a group of refugees and asylum seekers transferred to Australia from offshore facilities to receive medical care. […]
Victor Oshimhen, a Nigerian footballer with Napoli, has got a raised price tag of €120m after a host of interest from several European clubs including Arsenal, Barcelona, Real Madrid, Tottenham, Newcastle, and others. Osimhen has been Napoli’s best player this season, scoring 15 goals in 25 appearances in all competitions and providing four […]
Barack Obama, former president of the United States of America says he has tested positive for Covid-19. The first African-American president revealed this on Sunday via a twitter post. He said he was feeling fine other than a scratchy throat adding that Michelle, his wife, tested negative for the virus. “I just tested […]
Queen of England, Queen Elizabeth II has tested positive for Covid-19. Buckingham Palace confirmed this in a statement on Sunday stating that “Her Majesty is experiencing mild cold-like symptoms but expects to continue light duties at Windsor over the coming week,” “She will continue to receive medical attention and will follow all the […]
Defying a strike ban, thousands of nurses in Australia city, Sydney, decked in scrubs and surgical masks marched on the state parliament on Tuesday protesting against staff shortages and intolerable working conditions. They cheered, clapped and chanted their anger at persistent shortages of hospital beds and equipment during the pandemic. With placards captions “Nurses […]
The National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) has integrated childhood vaccination at COVID-19 vaccination sites for children from 0-23 months. This is to ensure that preventable childhood diseases are not neglected in the face of the response against the COVID-19 pandemic. The Executive Director, NPHCDA, Dr Faisal Shuaib, disclosed this at the National […]
The 64th annual Grammy Awards which was postponed from its initial January 31 airdate due to the COVID-19 pandemic, will now broadcast the live ceremony on Sunday, April 3, at 8 p.m. ET from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. The new date on Tuesday was confirmed in a statement by […]
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