Barely a week into the lockdown order declared in Ogun, Lagos and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, on March 29 by the President, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), harsh realities of h... Read more
A mum-of-eighteen accidentally infected 17 of her children with coronavirus after contracting at first ‘silent’ infection. Brittany Jencik, of Penfield, New York says she was asy... Read more
A briefing on the preliminary results, marked for official use only and obtained by Yahoo News, offers hope that summertime may offer conditions less hospitable for the virus, though experts... Read more
Nigeria has recorded 51 new cases of the novel coronavirus, according to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). In a tweet on Friday, the NCDC reported 32 cases in Lagos, six in Kano... Read more
As soon as it became clear how quickly coronavirus was spreading across the world, and how deadly it was, the race for the vaccine was on. As of now, there are as many as 115 vaccine pr... Read more
A teenage girl has narrated how her father and his three friends defiled her at Orji community in Owerri North Local Government Area of Imo State. The victim, 15, said her 44-year-old father... Read more
COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the novel coronavirus, killed about 11,000 people in the United States between Tuesday and Thursday. Today News Africa reports that there were alm... Read more
A medical doctor in Lagos, Dr. Emeka Chugbo, has become the first health worker in Nigeria to die of COVID-19 after he contracted the virus from a patient he was treating. The doctor, who di... Read more
A double-blind research study of a drug touted by President Donald Trump early on to treat coronavirus found it to be so dangerous at high doses the trial was s... Read more
BenevolentAI, a startup which has raised $292 million to apply AI to create drugs faster, today says it has uncovered an already approved drug as a potential treatment for COVID-19, after it... Read more
