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Doctors, Nurses Keep Leaving Nigeria Under Buhari’s Administration – Health Minister Laments

Medical doctors
The Minister of State for Health, Joseph Ekumankama, has bemoaned the exodus of medical doctors, nurses and other health professionals from the country, adding that it was one of the greatest challenges facing the Nigerian health sector. The minister stated this on Monday, adding that the Federal Government was working to address the brain drain in the country, the News Agency of Nigeria reports. The greatest challenge facing the sector presently is the doctors and nurses leaving the country, but I want to rather encourage them to stay back, seeing the effort the government is putting, the minister said. Ekumankama,Read More

Buhari Signs Regulations Making Use Of Face Mask Mandatory

President Muhammadu Buhari
Sultan: truth will dispel conspiracy theories on COVID-19 vaccine President Muhammadu Buhari has signed the COVID-19 Disease Health Protection 2021, a regulation which makes the use of face mask mandatory.Read More

FG Assures Nigerians COVID-19 Vaccines Won’t Be Hijacked

Executive Director of the NPHCDA, Dr. Faisal Shuaib
The Federal Government has assured Nigerians that COVID-19 vaccines will not be hijacked or diverted by any group outside the distribution plan. There has been growing concerns that politicians mayRead More

FCMB Founder, Balogun, Gifts UI N5bn Pediatrics Hospital

The founder of FCMB Group, Chief Olasubomi Balogun
The founder of FCMB Group, Chief Olasubomi Balogun, has donated his Otunba Tunwase National Pediatrics Centre (OTNPC) in Ijebu Ode to the University of Ibadan as part of his commitmentRead More

Fake COVID-19 Vaccines Now In Nigeria, NAFDAC Alert

National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC)
Lagos reopens 2 isolation centres Global deaths surpass 2 million The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) yesterday said it has reports of the importation ofRead More

COVID-19: FG Commissions Researchers To Assess Efficacy Of With Ivermectin

COVID-19
Lecturers can’t enforce social distancing in schools, ASUU insists The Federal Government has commissioned some Nigerian scientists and scholars to investigate the efficacy of using Ivermectin drug in the treatmentRead More

FG Mulls NIN Enrolment Suspension Over COVID-19 Risks

National Identification Number (NIN)
Threatens to stop Lagos-Ibadan, Abuja-Kaduna train services Signs MoU on $1.959bn Kano-Maradi rail project The federal government has said that it may suspend the ongoing enrolment for National Identification NumberRead More

COVID-19: 15 Doctors Test Positive in Nasarawa Specialist Hospital

COVID-19
NCDC announces 1,585 new cases, total confirmed cases now 99,063 Oyo warns against managing patients in private facilities No fewer than 15 medical doctors working with the Dalhatu Araf SpecialistRead More

FG: Buhari, Osinbajo, SGF To Be First Recipients Of COVID-19 Vaccines

President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo
Vaccination to be televised to gain public support Urges govs to enforce health regulations The Federal Government yesterday listed President Muhammadu Buhari, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and the Secretary toRead More

WHO Endorses Pfizer Vaccine For COVID-19 Immunisation In Nigeria

World Health Organisation (WHO)
Nigeria opens talks with China on vaccine acquisition FG to revoke visas of errant visitors As Nigeria prepares to take delivery of COVID-19 vaccines by the end of January, theRead More

COVID-19: Immigration Boss Orders Travel Ban Enforcement On 100 Passengers

Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Muhammad Babandede
The Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Muhammad Babandede, has directed NIS formations to enforce the travel ban imposed on 100 travellers who flouted the mandatory seven-day post-arrival COVID-19Read More