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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
Ebola: Nigeria Monitors 54 Contacts as NCDC Warns Outbreak Not Over Nigeria is monitoring 54 primary contacts linked to its confirmed Ebola case, even after the index patient and her husband were evacuated to Switzerland, as the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention warned that the country is not yet out of the woods….
The World Health Organisation pledged emergency medical gear, laboratory materials, and field epidemiologists to Nigeria on Tuesday, 20 October 2026, after federal health authorities confirmed the country’s first imported case of Ebola disease inside a private hospital in the Federal Capital Territory. Viruses ignore sovereign borders with ruthless ease. Coordinating Health Minister Muhammad Ali Pate…
The doctors and nurses standing between Ebola and the population of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo are now fighting on two fronts, one against a virus with no cure and another against a government that has not paid them since the outbreak began. At the Ebola treatment centre in Rwampara, one of the worst…
The Democratic Republic of Congo has begun testing two experimental therapies against the rare Bundibugyo strain of Ebola driving a deadly outbreak in its northeast, the World Health Organisation announced on Thursday, marking a critical turn in a response that has struggled to keep pace with the spread of the virus. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom…
Nigeria loses more than 53,000 people each year to diseases linked to contaminated food, with nearly 50 million cases of foodborne illness recorded annually and children under five carrying over 80 per cent of the burden, the Federal Government has revealed. Minister of State for Health and Social Welfare, Dr. Iziaq Adekunle Salako, made…
The head of the World Health Organisation visited Uganda this week as a deadly Ebola outbreak that crossed in from the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo continued to spread, with both countries now recording a sharp rise in confirmed infections and deaths. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus made the trip after the global health…
More than 1,100 people are suspected of having contracted the Ebola virus across the Democratic Republic of Congo and neighbouring Uganda, the African Union’s continental health agency has confirmed, raising fears that the outbreak could escalate rapidly across central and east Africa. In a commentary published in the Financial Times on Sunday, the Director…
United Nations agencies have mounted an urgent emergency response to a fast-spreading Ebola outbreak in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, mobilising medical supplies, logistics support, and personnel across multiple affected provinces as the death toll climbs and the virus threatens to breach more urban centres. UN Spokesperson Stephane Dujarric disclosed the scale…
A special repatriation flight carrying 20 British nationals evacuated from a hantavirus-struck cruise ship landed at Manchester Airport on Sunday, bringing home passengers caught in one of the most unusual public health emergencies to affect a civilian vessel in recent memory. Television footage showed the aircraft touching down at the northwest England airport after…
A landmark study has confirmed that the first malaria vaccine saved thousands of young lives during its initial rollout. Findings published in The Lancet show that the RTS, S vaccine prevented one in eight child deaths among recipients in Ghana, Kenya, and Malawi. These results cover four years ending in 2023. Scientists now have proof…