Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari has endorsed that Madagascar’s COVID-19 cure syrup be brought to the country. Chairman of the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on coronavirus control, Boss Mustapha, said on Monday. The Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), speaking at the PTF briefing in Abuja, said: The Madagascar COVID-19 solution would go through...Read More

Dr Osagie Ehanire, the Minister of Health, has on Monday said the Federal Government and the World Health Organisation were carrying out COVID-19 drug trial in the Federal Capital Territory and fives states. Ehanire, listed the states as Lagos, Ogun, Kaduna, Sokoto and Kano. The minister confirmed that Nigeria was expecting a herbal drug, COVID...Read More

Nigeria has one of the largest stocks of human resources for health (HRH) in Africa but, like the other 57 HRH crisis countries, has densities of nurses, midwives and doctors that are still too low to effectively deliver essential health services (1.95 per 1,000). In recent years’ migration to foreign countries has declined and the...Read More