The Journal seeks to become the most reliable, first-choice Pan-Nigerian information and public knowledge platform. The Journal Nigeria is a serious Journalism from an African Worldview
The Journal seeks to become the most reliable, first-choice Pan-Nigerian information and public knowledge platform. The Journal Nigeria is a serious Journalism from an African Worldview
The Federal Government has confirmed a case of Ebola virus disease in Abuja, bringing Nigeria into a regional outbreak that has infected more than 9,500 people in Central and East Africa since May. The Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Prof. Ali Pate, said on Tuesday that the patient, a woman who had recently…
Nigeria has recorded 258 Lassa fever deaths so far in 2026, with the case fatality rate rising to 24 per cent, according to the latest situation report from the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention. The report, which covers epidemiological week 35 from 24 to 30 August, put confirmed cases for the year…
Fresh figures from Nigeria’s health authorities have laid bare the scale of a diphtheria outbreak that began almost four years ago and still refuses to end, with the overwhelming majority of victims turning out to be children who never received a single vaccine against a disease that is entirely preventable. The Director General of the…
Nigeria has recorded more than 10,000 confirmed diphtheria cases in 2026, a fresh indication that a disease preventable through routine vaccination remains a significant public health problem nearly four years after the country’s major outbreak began. The latest figure, disclosed by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) Director General, Dr Jide…
Nigeria’s public health system faces mounting pressure as Lassa fever deaths surge past two hundred. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention reported that cumulative fatalities reached two hundred and twenty-nine by week twenty-eight. Total confirmed cases climbed to nine hundred and sixty-three across twenty-three states. Fresh weekly infections rose to twenty-five following a…
A federal agency tasked with protecting Nigerians from epidemics has pushed back against lawmakers’ plans to create a second public health institution, warning that the move could fracture the country’s disease response at a moment when it can least afford disruption. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention told the House of Representatives…
A senior medical doctor with the AIDS Prevention Initiative in Nigeria has died of Lassa fever in Benue State, forcing health authorities to restart a fresh round of disease surveillance just as the state prepared to declare itself free of the viral haemorrhagic illness. The state Commissioner for Health and Human Services, Dr Paul…
Nigeria’s Immigration Service has moved to reassure the public that the country’s land borders pose no unchecked risk of Ebola entry, even as the World Health Organisation places the rapidly expanding outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda under its highest international alert status. The Nigeria Immigration Service spokesperson, Akinsola Akinlabi,…
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention has activated emergency border surveillance following an Ebola outbreak in Central Africa. Health officials confirmed that while Nigeria has no recorded cases, the rapid international spread of the virus requires immediate defensive measures. The containment drive follows the decision by the World Health Organisation to declare the…
Health authorities in Cross River State have activated full emergency response measures following laboratory confirmation of a single COVID-19 infection involving a Chinese expatriate, the first officially recorded case in the state in roughly four years. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, in a statement released Tuesday night, confirmed that the patient…