A renowned Psychiatrist and Director of the World Health Organization Centre at the University of Ibadan, Professor Oye Gureje has whittled down the insinuation that sit tight syndrome among African leaders or official misconduct in public office may be due to some mental imbalance. Professor Gureje who featured on the BCOS TV breakfast programme, AM120, […]
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, has revealed that Kano, Plateau, Bauchi, Gombe, Nasarawa, Kaduna and Niger States have reported confirmed human cases of Avian Influenza H5N1, also called Bird Flu. NCDC Director General, Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, announced this in an interview with Newsmen in Abuja. He was giving highlights of the epidemiological situation […]
Ogun State Governor, Mr Dapo Abiodun has taken his first dose of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine. The Governor took the vaccine at the Governor’s office in Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta, the State capital. His deputy, Noimot Salako-Oyedele, and two frontline health workers were also administered the vaccine. The Governor, after taking the vaccine said, “Taking our doses is, […]
The Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, who is also the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Mr Boss Mustapha, and other members of the PTF have received the AstraZeneca vaccines. They took the first jabs of the vaccine on Monday, March 8, 2021, at the briefing of the Task Force […]
The team of World Health Organization experts investigating the origins of the Coronavirus have visited the Wuhan hospital that received the first confirmed Coronavirus cases, before a scheduled tour of a propaganda exhibition celebrating China’s recovery from the pandemic. The group was driven to the Jinyintan Hospital on Saturday, January 30, 2021, the first hospital […]
A team of experts from the World Health Organization has arrived in Wuhan to probe the origins of the Coronavirus more than a year after it emerged, as China reported its first death from COVID-19 in eight months. Channels TV reports that the 10 Scientists landed for their much-delayed mission, met by Chinese officials in […]
An expert mission to China to find the origins of the Coronavirus pandemic stumbled before it even began, with the Head of the World Health Organisation complaining that Beijing was blocking the Team from entering the country. WHO Chief, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said he was “very disappointed” with the last-minute bar on entry, in […]
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has said one of Nigeria’s main priorities now is getting the Corona Virus Disease vaccine. Prof. Osinbajo stated this on Thursday, November 12, 2020, at the opening session of the virtual edition of the Paris Peace Forum, noting that this is a matter of utmost concern to the Buhari-administration. Stating what […]
The Director of the World Health Organisation, WHO, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has hailed Pfizer and BioNTech’s announcement that their vaccine has in trials proved 90-percent effective in preventing COVID-19 infections. The two Pharmaceutical Companies said the vaccine they have jointly developed had, during Phase 3 trials, provided protection to nearly all patients seven days […]
Claim: Several people believe that sleeping under a mosquito bed net treated with insecticide (or not treated) is ineffective and harmful to human health. Verdict: The claim that sleeping under bed net is harmful to human health and ineffective is misleading. Medical experts and scientists have affirmed that sleeping under a bed net reduces the […]
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