Tag: health workers

By Rotimi Ijikanmi Abuja - The Federal Government says the strike by the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) was “needless and insensitive” because...

he Federal Government has released N13.642billion for the payment of hazard allowances and group life insurance for health workers and Federal civil servants nationwide,...

By Yakubu Uba Maiduguri - The Borno Commissioner for Health and Human Services, Dr Salisu Kwaya-Bura, says the state government has recruited over 30...

By Chukwuemeka Opara Abakaliki - Ebonyi Government says no health worker is among the 182 cases of the coronavirus infections recorded in the state. The...

By Cecilia Ologunagba Abuja - The World Health Organisation (WHO), Regional Office for Africa in Brazzaville, Congo, says the number of coronavirus (COVID-19)...

The Director-General of the Nigeria Center for Disease Control NCDC, Chikwe Ihekweazu, today revealed that not less than 812 health workers have been infected...

The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) on Saturday said its members would proceed on total and indefinite strike if the Federal Government failed...

Health Minister, Osagie Ehanire, has been in hot water lately. It’s hard to sympathise with him because he jumped into the cauldron with his...

By Aminu Garko Minna - The South Korean Government through the United Nations Habitat Programme (UN Habitat), has given grant of twenty-five thousand dollars...

Nasir el-Rufai, governor of Kaduna, says the doctors threatening to go on strike in the state are at risk of losing their jobs. The doctors...

The Kano state government says it has discharged 40 health workers infected with COVID-19 at the Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital. Hauwa Mohammed, assistant director, information...

LAGOS - The Lagos State branch of the Nigerian Medical Association has directed its members to sit at home from 6 pm today, Wednesday,...

More than 50 essential workers were arrested by the police in Lagos on Tuesday following the directive of Mohammed Adamu, inspector-general of police, TheCable...

By Muhammad Lawal Birnin Kebbi - Gov. Abubakar Atiku-Bagudu of Kebbi State has approved the payment of operational safety allowances for frontline health...

A four-month old is one of the 20 new COVID-19 cases recorded in Kaduna on Friday, its Ministry of Health has confirmed. The ministry also...

According to SaharaReporters, aggrieved medical doctors working at the University of Medical Sciences Teaching Hospital in Ondo State have continued to lament the non-payment...

Scientists have claimed the coronavirus can enter the body through the eyes after finding they contain a protein used by the infection to bind...

Pandemonium broke out at one of the isolation centres located at Kwanar Dawaki,in Kano state,when some COVID-19 patients held health workers hostage for four...

Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus, the Director-General of World Health Organisation (WHO), says an average of 80,000 new cases of COVID-19 are being reported daily since...

By Chibuike Nwabuko Abuja (Sundiata Post) President Muhammadiu Buhari has written the Nigeria Senate in an executive communication for the confirmation of the nomination of...