South Africa will roll out the first coronavirus vaccine trial in Africa this week. The vaccine, known as ChAdOx1 nCoV-19, was developed by the Oxford...
Five family members of a late permanent secretary in Ebonyi State, who died of COVID-19, have tested positive for the novel virus. It was gathered that...
Nigeria has recorded 452 fresh cases alongside eight new deaths from the novel virus. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) disclosed this on Tuesday via...
Thirteen more lawmakers from the Imo State House of Assembly have tested positive for coronavirus. The spokesman for the State Task Force on COVID-19, Chinedu Iwuala,...
Tennis world number one, Novak Djokovic said Tuesday he has tested positive for coronavirus. He has joined a slew of other infected players who took part...
Nigeria reported 675 new cases of the novel coronavirus on Monday. The new cases bring the country’s total reported cases, since February, to 20,919, the Nigeria...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has declared that no state in the country is COVID-19 free, TopNaija reports. This was announced by NCDC’s Director-General,...
The Delta State Commissioner of Information, Mr. Charles Aniagwu and the Secretary to the Delta State Government Mr. Chiedu Ebie have tested positive to coronavirus (COVID-19)....
A 2-year-old child has tested positive for Coronavirus athe Federal Medical Centre in Abeokuta, Ogun state capital, has announced that a Spokesperson of the hospital,...
COVID-19 cases in Nigeria have exceeded 20,000 with 436 new infections recorded on Sunday. The Nigeria Centre For Disease Control (NCDC) disclosed this in a tweet...
Nigeria recorded 745 new COVID-19 cases, the highest single-day infections. This was revealed in a late-night tweet by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). According...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has launched four new COVID-19 testing laboratories. NCDC disclosed this on Wednesday on its verified Twitter handle. This brings...
A Twitter user, Adetutu Balogun took to the platform to call on the NCDC and the Lagos State Ministry of Health to act after a staff...
Veteran Singer, Olalekan Fadeyi popularly known as Azadus, has recounted his experience after recovering from COVID-19 in Lagos. Azadus was admitted into one of the...
Nigeria recorded 587 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday as the virus continues to spread across the nation. The nation’s total infections pushes towards the 18,000...
Schools in Beijing have been shut down following a resurgence of Coronavirus in the area amid fears of a second wave. On Tuesday, China’s National...
The driver of Dr Tomi Coker, the Ogun State Commissioner for Health, has reportedly tested positive for COVID-19. It was gathered that the commissioner had ordered...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Wednesday said Nigeria has recorded 490 new cases of the novel coronavirus and an additional 31 deaths linked...
A cheap and widely available drug proven to help save the lives of patients seriously ill with coronavirus has been discovered, TopNaija reports. The low-dose...
A woman who recently delivered a set of twins has died from COVID19 in Imo state. Professor Maurice Iwu, Chairman of the Imo state COVID19 Taskforce,...
Senator Abiola Ajimobi, the immediate past Governor of Oyo State, is still COVID-19 positive two weeks after being admitted at the First Cardiologist and Cardiovascular Consultants...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on announced that Nigeria recorded 573 new cases of the novel coronavirus. In a tweet via its official handle,...
Nasarawa State Health Professionals Association has alleged that 26 health workers, including six medical doctors, have died of COVID-19 in the state. Speaking to reporters on...
In what seems to be a second wave, China has reported dozens of new COVID-19 cases for the two consecutive days on Monday. This growing cluster...
The Lagos State Government has released 48 COVID-19 patients after recovering from the virus in the state. This was announced by the State Incident Commander, Governor...
Gombe has topped the list of states with new cases on Sunday as the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) confirmed 403 new COVID-19 cases in...
The COVID-19 caseload for Nigeria has hit 15,682 on Saturday, with 501 new cases announced by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control(NCDC), TopNaija reports. Eight deaths...
At least one person has been confirmed dead while five others are left with various degrees of injury after a vehicle conveying some soldiers rammed into...
Nigeria recorded 627 new cases of COVID-19, crossing the 600 mark for two consecutive days. The nation’s total infections has now pushed past the 15,000 mark,...
Nigeria on Thursday crossed the 14,000-mark as the nation recorded 681 new cases, bringing the country’s total to 14,554. According to the Nigeria Centre for Disease...
Bauchi state Governor, Bala Mohammed, revealed that 15 COVID-19 cases in the state came from Calabar, casting aspersions on Cross River state’s COVID-19-free status. In a...
The Ogun State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Tomi Coker said 104 out of the 108 new COVID-19 cases in the state on Tuesday were from one...
Nigeria recorded 409 new coronavirus cases on Wednesday, June 10, taking the country’s toll to 13,873. According to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), the...
Three commissioners in Gombe State have tested positive for coronavirus. The Commissioner of Information and Culture in the state, Ibrahim Alhassan, disclosed this to reporters on...
Nigeria recorded 663 new positive cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday. The figure is the highest daily increase since the country started reporting coronavirus cases in February...
The Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 has said Nigeria may just be starting to experience the epidemic as the nation’s confirmed cases have surpassed 12,000. The...
A businesswoman, who identified herself simply as Martha, has called on the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control to give her an explanation for her isolation at...
Germany on Monday announced the donation of €26m to support Nigeria’s COVID-19 response, TopNaija reports. The German Missions in Nigeria in a statement said the donation...
The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire on Monday revealed that about 60 per cent of the 979 strange deaths reported in Kano State may have...
Nigeria recorded 315 new cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) on Monday with the recoveries surpassing 4,000. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) disclosed this in a...
