Category: Health

Cardiovascular disease: Support SMEs to replace transfat with healthier oil – CSOs to govt

By Omolara Akintoye Govt. have been urged to continue to support industry reformations by focusing on Small & Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs) to replace industrially...

COVID-19: NCDC announces 45 new infections, total case  now 166,191

    Nigeria on Thursday reported 29 new COVID-19 cases in four states, bringing the total cases to 166,191. This is according to an update published by the...

COVID:19 Africa needs 20m AstraZeneca vaccine -WHO

  Africa requires at least 20 million Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine doses in the next six weeks to enable the continent to deliver second shots to populations...

Covid or no Covid: BOI assets hit N1.86trn – Chairman

  In spite of the ravaging global Covid-19 pandemic,which led to declining fortunes of many businesses,the Bank of Industry (BOI) says its total assets grew to...

COVID-19: WHO  chief issues fresh warning

  The European office of the World Health Organisation (WHO) is warning against taking the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic too lightly in the face of declining...

JBN’s  Roll-Back-Malaria CSR initiative spreads in Abuja

·         Excitement as the nation’s engineering construction leader Donates more Treated Mosquito Nets to Kindergartens, Primary School Pupils in FCT...

JBN increases CSR efforts to operational communities

  ·         Distributes treated mosquito nets, pamphlets on Malaria prevention guidelines In continuation of its determination to touch the lives of...

Alarm! 76.2 million Nigerians are hypertensive — Experts

  As Nigeria joins the rest of the world to mark the World Hypertension Day (WHD) today, May 17, medical experts have warned that no fewer than 76.2 million...

COVID-19:Remittance inflows to Nigeria declines by 28% in 2020- World Bank

    The World Bank says remittance inflows to Nigeria declined by 28 per cent in 2020 because of COVID-19 pandemic. The Bank also said remittance flows fell...

COVID-19: FG extends work-from-home directive for workers tíll June 11

  As part of measures aimed at preventing the spread of deadly strains of COVID-19 in the country, the Federal Government on Monday extended its work-from-home...