Fasting refers to abstinence from food or drink for reasons for religious, ritualistic, health or ethical purposes. Fasting may be complete or partial, lengthy, short-duration or...
The World Bank Group has urged the Federal Government to impose special taxes on alcohol, cigarettes and sugar-sweetened beverages to help fund primary healthcare across the...
By Augustine Adah
The Director-General National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA), Dr Gambo Aliyu, on Wednesday called for increased support from non-government actors to end HIV infection...
Several civil servants who have no proof of COVID-19 vaccination and negative PCR tests are currently being denied access into the Federal Secretariat, Abuja. You would...
Canada has slapped a travel ban on people coming from Nigeria, the authorities announced on Tuesday in a continuing effort towards stemming the spread of the...
By Emmanuel Aziken
The World Health Organisation, WHO, last Friday, November 26, named the new COVID-19 strain recently identified, B.1.1.529 as ‘Omicron’ and classified it as a variant of concern. Cases...
Dutch health authorities announced on Tuesday that they found the new Omicron variant of the coronavirus in cases dating back as long as 11 days, indicating that it was already...
By Augustine Adah