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#YesToCovidVaccine: Jigawa records impressive turnout as vaccination effort in Nigeria progresses

Jigawa, 29 March 2021 - On a recent weekday, community health worker…

Nurse Mary Yarda, a staff of National Hospital, Abuja receiving the COVID-19 vaccine

My vaccination experiences-recipients speak after receiving COVID-19 vaccine

Abuja, 31 March 2021 - “Nine days after receiving the Oxford-…

Delegates at the Press Briefing for World Water day 2021.

World Water Day: Nigeria Pushes for Water Quality amidst COVID-19

Abuja, March 22 2021- “Every morning, I walk for about 4.5 Kilometers…

TB survivor Ekong Francis Ubong

Survivors testify that tuberculosis is curable with timely treatment

Abuja, March 26 2021 - “This Tuberculosis (TB) is curable, it goes…

Queen Ndochinwa, a nursing officer at the Infectious Disease Hospital, Lagos.

Practitioners remain confident that COVID-19 vaccine will boost immunity of frontline workers

Abuja, 25 March, 2021 - Frontline health workers in Lagos State who…

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Plateau, WHO and partners conduct COVID-19 Intra-Action Review (IAR)

Jos 23 March 2021 - The Plateau State Ministry of Health with the…

Dr Olagunoye Ajibola, the first frontline health worker in Osun state to receive Oxford_AstraZeneca vaccine..

Osun State Health Workers heave sighs of relieve as state commences COVID-19 vaccination

Abuja, 25 March 2021 - Health workers in Osun State heaved sighs of…

Dr Kofi Boateng alongside Dr Sunny Okoroafor handing over the NHWR soft document to Dr Azodoh at the FMoH_1.jpg

WHO Nigeria hands over the Health Workforce Registry to the Federal Ministry of Health

Abuja, March 22 2021 - “I would like to appreciate the collaboration…

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Nigeria’s health workers take the country’s first jabs of COVID-19 vaccine

Abuja, 15 March 2021 – After Yunusa Thairu became one of Nigeria’s…

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WHO partners Borno State in fight against Leishmaniasis

Maiduguri, 18 March, 2021 - When Bako Ibrahim, a 25 years old taxi…