The proposed certification of Nigeria as a polio free country in August this year is gradually becoming a reality. The indication was given by the Chairman of the African Regional Commission for Certification of Polio Eradication, ARCC, Professor Rose Leke, [...]
The National Primary Healthcare Development Agency is training health workers at the primary health level across the country. The training is as a result of the increasing number of COVID-19 cases in Nigeria. Speaking to the participants at the virtual [...]
Arrangements have been concluded for the formal flag off of the Integrated Medical Outreach Programme (I-MOP), an initiative of the Muhammadu Buhari - led Federal Government, aimed at bringing succour to underserved and unreached Nigerians, especially mothers and children of [...]
The Federal Ministry of Health has confirmed a coronavirus disease (COVID19) case in Lagos State, Nigeria. The case, which was confirmed on the 27th of February 2020, is the first case to be reported in Nigeria since the beginning of [...]
Nigeria has launched a mass vaccination campaign against measles in the country. The launch which took place in Kano north west of the country today, 30th October 2019 is targeting to reach approximately 22.2 million children from 1 to under [...]
The Federal government on Wednesday marked three years without a case of Wild Polio Virus (WPV) in the country and expressed confidence that by March 2020, would certify Nigeria as polio-free. The Executive Director/CEO of National Primary Health Care Development [...]
Nigeria will soon have a World Health Organization (WHO) approved reference laboratory for confirmation of test carried out in the country. Currently, tests are sent to Dakar, Senegal, WHO reference Centre for West Africa for confirmation of suspected outbreaks of [...]
Planned mass vaccination of some 26.2 million people against yellow fever got underway across the country on November 22. It is the second phase of a massive campaign to establish high population immunity to yellow fever nationwide which ends December [...]
The Executive Director and Chief Executive Director of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), Dr. Faisal Shuaib reiterated this while addressing some management staff of the Agency in Abuja today. Dr. Shuaib described as false, the information trending [...]
The National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) says Nigeria may be certified polio-free in next 11 months, if access to insecure areas in Borno State and some parts of the North-East, improves. Dr. Faisal Shuaib, Executive Director, NPHCDA, disclosed [...]