NIGERIAN health officials have identified six more cases of the dreaded UK variant of the Covid-19 virus in the country known as B117 after scientists collected fresh samples from Osun and Kwara states.
Over the last few months, virus has mutated into several new strains and these are now ravaging the globe in a deadly...
NIGERIAN government ministers are considering introducing another total lockdown in several major cities across the country as the number of Covid-19 cases soars across the country during this second wave of the pandemic.
Although Nigeria has been spared the worst of the global pandemic, the country has had more than 127,000...
NIGERIAN health officials have announced plans to vaccinate at least 100m people against the Covid-19 virus by March under an ambitious programme to insulate the country from the dreaded global pandemic.
Medical experts have warned that Nigeria needs to set aside N540.4bn ($1.4bn) to purchase 218.m doses of the new...
RESIDENTS of Lagos State who contravene the coronavirus restrictions introduced by the state government face the risk of being sent to jail for a one year period as the authorities clamp down on protocol abuses as a second wave of the pandemic looms.
After months of recording low figures on a daily basis, Nigeria's Covid-19...
NIGERIA has successfully evacuated 372 of her citizens stranded in Saudi Arabia during the coronavirus lockdown flying them to Abuja yesterday where they will go into isolation for 14 days before returning to their homes.
As was the case with most other countries, the Nigerians were stranded in Saudi Arabia when the lockdown...
KWARA State government has received a sum of N100m ($260,282) World Bank to assist it as officials seek to strengthen the management of the health and social apparatus against the coronavirus pandemic.
Relatively unaffected by the pandemic, Kwara State only has 857 cases of Covid-19 so far, of which there have been just 21...
