The House of Representatives has directed 11 airline operators to refund the sum of N3,451,076,527 to the Consolidated Revenue Fund (CRF) within 21 days. The resolution was contained in the report of the House Committee on Public Accounts, chaired by Bamidele Salam, which probed the ‘alleged mismanagement of COVID-19 intervention funds to MDAs of government…

A communication expert, Ezekiel Olaniyan, has explained how organisation can navigate crisis communication through efficient and effective strategies. Olaniyan noted that past events including protests, global pandemic have forced organisations to re-assess their crisis communication strategies in real-time. In his article titled: "Navigating Crisis Communication: Lessons from COVID-19, #EndSARS, and 2024 protests", he noted that…

A study on the origin of COVID-19 provided new evidence on Thursday supporting the theory that humans first caught the virus from infected animals at a Chinese market in late 2019. Nearly five years after COVID-19 first emerged, the international community has not been able to determine with certainty exactly where the virus came from.…

Following the recent Mpox outbreak which continues to pose a serious health threat in Africa, the AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) Nigeria has called for urgent global action to address vaccine inequity, which is severely hampering the continent's ability to respond effectively. Recall that the AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) has been at the forefront of advocacy…

Workers have seen their slice of the global income pie shrink significantly over the past two decades, swelling inequality and depriving the combined labor force of trillions, the UN said Wednesday. The United Nations' International Labor Organization said that the global labor income share -- or the proportion of total income in an economy earned…

The mpox outbreak is not another Covid-19, the World Health Organization said Tuesday, because much is already known about the virus and the means to control it. While more research is needed on the Clade 1b strain which triggered the UN agency into declaring a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC), the spread of…

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said as of July 21, 2024, over 775 million confirmed cases and more than seven million deaths from COVID-19 have been reported globally since the pandemic began.

The past President of the World Hepatitis Alliance (WHA), Dr. Danjuma Adda, has identified hepatitis as a leading cause of death after Covid-

The Association of Enterprise Risk Management Professionals (AERMP) has urged the Federal and state governments in Nigeria to take immediate risk-mitigating measures against the resurgence of COVID-19.

Singapore’s Ministry of Health has asked public hospitals to move suitable patients to transitional or home care facilities to ensure bed capacity following COVID-19 resurgence. This is contained in a statement issued on Saturday. The ministry explained that by this development, public hospitals are to reduce non-emergency surgeries as part of the precaution measures against…

A Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja has been told how an officer of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) was allegedly killed by hoodlums on March 16, 2021, during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic. The prosecution witnesses, two LASTMA officers, Adeoye Olayinka and Salam Olajide, gave vivid evidence in the ongoing trial…

The AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) and the AHF Global Public Health Institute, in collaboration with some Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) have called for a readjustment of the current draft of the World Health Organisation (WHO) pandemic agreement to strengthen the international community’s ability to detect and respond to future pandemics threat, particularly in developing nations.…