Abuja, 10 July 2020 – Nigeria’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr Geoffrey Onyeama says “In this critical moment of a global fight against the COVID-19, Nigeria is behind the World Health Organization and urges you to rema…
Lire la suiteMaiduguri, 9 July, 2020 - The College of Nursing and Midwifery, Maiduguri in Borno state, has secured full accreditation from the regulatory body, the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria. The accreditation comes …
Lire la suiteAbuja, 06 July 2020 - “When I tested positive to COVID-19 on April 23 2020, I was evacuated to an isolation facility with minimum contact with other infected persons and none with people from outside. Being in isolation …
Lire la suiteAkwa, 7 July, 2020 - “This capacity building is timely and has empowered us to effectively respond to COVID-19”, said Ms Ifediata Adaora, a Medical Laboratory Scientist and one of the beneficiaries of the two-day trainin…
Lire la suiteWhen health officials in Kano State noted that turnouts for Covid-19 testing were consistently low across communities, they grew worried. Many residents were unaware of how serious the Covid-19 disease was, and despite sensitization messages on the pandemic, some did not believe COVID-19 was real. How then, officials worried, would health workers be able to convince residents to submit themselves for testing so infected persons could be isolated and treated?
Lire la suiteMaiduguri, 26 June, 2020 - “Sometimes I wonder what our lives would have become without the intervention of the humanitarian organizations,” says Alhaji Umara Monguno, a 48-year-old farmer in Monguno Local Government Are…
Lire la suiteHauwa Ibrahim ne sait pas quand elle reverra sa famille. Il y a deux mois, cette infirmière de 29 ans s'est portée volontaire pour travailler dans un centre de traitement du COVID-19 dans la capitale du Nigéria, Abuja. Craignant de mettre sa famille à risque d'attraper le virus, elle a choisi de rester au centre. Comme elle, de nombreux agents de santé qui participent à la lutte contre la pandémie dans le pays ont renoncé à passer du temps avec leur famille.
Lire la suiteDr Fiona Braka holds one of the highest-stake roles in the African regional polio programme – supporting the Government of Nigeria in their fight to defeat wild poliovirus. She is the first woman to hold her position in Nigeria, and before that was the first female polio team lead in Ethiopia.
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