Multiple sources have reported a cholera outbreak in northern Nigeria that has killed at least 20 people in the past two weeks. Nigeria records an annual outbreak of Cholera especially towards the rainy season which according to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) is a result of poor sanitation. The latest cholera outbreak in Bauchi […]Read More
The Central Bank of Nigeria said it has disbursed N97.4bn out of the N100bn credit intervention for the healthcare industry. It disclosed this in the communique issued after the Monetary Policy Committee meeting saying the intervention was introduced as part of its measures to cushion the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the economy. “Under […]Read More
At least 5,000 people have been sent fleeing from their homes and 15 people dead after torrents of lava poured into their villages in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. Mount Nyiragongo erupted for the first time in nearly two decades, running steaming lava down the hillside towards the eastern city of Goma and […]Read More
Doctors in India have recorded an alarming rise of an aggressive, hard-to-treat fungal infection known as Mucormycosis. The current increase in infections has been reported in patients infected with COVID-19 and those who have recovered from the disease. What Is Mucormycosis? Mucormycosis (previously called Zygomycosis) is a rare but serious fungal infection caused by a […]Read More
A total of 22 women in the town of Butembo (an epicentre of the tenth Ebola outbreak) in the Democratic Republic of Congo have accused UN male aid workers of offering them jobs in exchange for sex. According to a survey in an investigation by The New humanitarian (TNH) and the Thomson Reuters Foundation, fourteen […]Read More
The African Development Bank (AfDB) has said it would invest 3 billion dollars to build Africa’s pharmaceutical industry in the next 10 years. AfDB added that it was also supporting the Africa Center for Disease Control (Africa CDC) with 28 million dollars to strengthen its capacity to tackle the issue of vaccines President of the […]Read More
Nigeria is agreeing to reduce gas emission as part of its commitments to the Paris Agreement at the U.S.-led climate summit. Speaking virtually to the White House from Abuja, President Muhammadu Buhari said since 2016, Nigeria had undertaken “major environmentally sound and climate-friendly programs.” He revealed institutional frameworks have been set in place to cut […]Read More
A nonprofit organisation, Smile Train, has revealed that over 6,000 babies are born with cleft annually in Nigeria. Nkeiruka Obi, Programme Director, West and Central Africa Smile Train, made the disclosure in a media workshop quoting World Bank Data, that, “6,186 children are born yearly with cleft in Nigeria.” Cleft occurs when certain parts of […]Read More
Heavy rains in Angola’s capital city Luanda has killed 14 people and left 8,000 families without homes. The storm in Luanda which lasted for about seven hours, collapsed bridges, uprooted trees and submerged vehicles leading to the recorded number of casualties. According to a report by the provincial government of Luanda, as of the end […]Read More
A new vaccine for the prevention of HIV has successfully passed the first stage of the in-human trial. Dr William Schief, a professor and immunologist at Scripps research and executive director of vaccine design at IAVI’s neutralizing antibody centre where the vaccine was developed said the vaccine was produced by triggering the right B cells […]Read More
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