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New COVID-19 Variant, ‘XEC’ Spreads Across 27 Countries

New COVID-19 Variant, ‘XEC’ Spreads Across 27 Countries

A new COVID-19 variant known as XEC has spread to 27 countries, including France and the United States (US), infecting more than 600 individuals. XEC, first detected in Germany in June, has since emerged in…

Timaya Recounts How He Started Doing Drugs

Timaya Recounts How He Started Doing Drugs

Popular Nigerian singer, Inetimi Alfred Timaya, better known as Timaya has narrated how he started indulging in drugs during COVID-19 in 2020. Speaking in a recent interview with The Beat 99.9 FM, the singer stated…

FG Describes Viral Memo On New COVID Variant In Ebonyi As ‘Unverified, Unsubstantiated

FG Describes Viral Memo On New COVID Variant In Ebonyi As ‘Unverified, Unsubstantiated

The Federal Ministry of Health on Friday refuted the memo from the National Obstetric Fistula Centre in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, warning staff of an epidemic of a novel COVID-19 form. The “new wave of COVID-19…

Nigeria Do Not Have New COVID-19 Variants – NCDC

Nigeria Do Not Have New COVID-19 Variants – NCDC

The novel EG.5 and BA.2.86 subvariants of the Omicron variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus have not yet been discovered in Nigeria, according to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC). This was disclosed…

Nigerian Hospital Memo Reveals COVID-19 Returns Deadlier

Nigerian Hospital Memo Reveals COVID-19 Returns Deadlier

Following the internal memo issued by the Head of Clinical Services, Dr Yakubu E. N. to the National Obstetric Fistula Centre in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, Nigerians and the hospital community have been warned to be…

WHO Hints On Disease Worse Than COVID-19

WHO Hints On Disease Worse Than COVID-19

The World Health Organisation (WHO), has informed the planet to be ready for a disease worse than COVID-19. Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the WHO Director-General gave the warning while unveiling a new global scheme to…

Aregbesola Reveals FG Spends N1m Annually On One Prisoner

Aregbesola Reveals FG Spends N1m Annually On One Prisoner

The Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola has disclosed that the Federal Government spends at least N1 million in a year to cater for one inmate at the correctional facilities in the country. The Minister…

COVID-19 resurgence worries experts

COVID-19 resurgence worries experts

•Nigeria should heighten preventive measures at entry points, says Prof. Tomori •Resurgence means vaccination not effective –Prof. Ezeibe •Nigerians should get vaccinated –Dr. Olugbogi The dreaded COVID-19 pandemic appears to have resurfaced in China. This…

COVID-19: People are suspicious; will not take vaccines –Lagosians

COVID-19: People are suspicious; will not take vaccines –Lagosians

•‘Anything that’ll keep people alive is welcome’ The approval of COVID-19 vaccines across the world ought to have offered a path out of the pandemic. But not for cynics, who rely on the misinformation that…

BURDEN OF ANXIETY: Story of HIV patients’ fear of COVID-19

BURDEN OF ANXIETY: Story of HIV patients’ fear of COVID-19

Many Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) positive patients appear to be avoiding hospitals for fear of contracting the deadly coronavirus (COVID-19) disease. However, these fears and anxieties have been dispelled by health workers, who, according to…