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By Abujah Racheal The Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr Boss Mustapha, has confirmed that Nigeria will on Tuesday, March 2, receive the first tranche of COVID-19 vaccines. Mustapha, who is also the chairman, Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, made the disclosure on Saturday in Abuja while evaluatingContinue Reading

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By Abujah Racheal The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced 600 new cases of the Coronavirus （COVID-19), bringing the total number of infections in the country to 155, 076. The NCDC disclosed this on its official Twitter handle on Friday. The agency also registered 11 COVID-19 deaths, raisingContinue Reading

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The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases on the African continent reached 3,869,522 as of Friday, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said.   According to the continental disease control and prevention agency’s COVID-19 dashboard, the death toll related to the pandemic stood at 102,843 as ofContinue Reading

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By Cecilia Ologunagba The World Health Organisation (WHO) is strengthening collaboration with the office of Kebbi State Governor’s wife to champion early cancer detection to eliminate the disease in the country. The WHO Office in Nigeria, in a statement posted on its website, said the collaboration would help in improvingContinue Reading