THE Zamfara State Ministry of Education, Science and Technology has extended the resumption date for all public and private schools…
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THE Plateau State Government has directed the reopening of all public and private primary and secondary schools across the state…
LAGOS State has recorded 53 suspected cases of diphtheria in 2026, including six laboratory-confirmed cases, even as the state government…
THE Katsina State Government has raised fresh concerns over the worsening diphtheria outbreak, revealing that the disease’s case fatality rate…
TWENTY-THREE people have died from suspected diphtheria in Plateau State in the last two weeks, with 143 suspected cases recorded…
KATSINA State has recorded about 1,000 suspected cases of diphtheria since January 2026, with about five per cent of the…
THE ongoing diphtheria outbreak in Katsina State has placed the Federal Teaching Hospital Katsina (FTH Katsina) under severe pressure, with…
A WAVE of grief has swept through parts of Kano State following a reported outbreak of diphtheria that claimed the…
THE Kaduna State Ministry of Health has issued an urgent public health advisory following a recent increase in diphtheria cases…
AT least 10 children have lost their lives in Niger State following a fresh outbreak of diphtheria in the Agaie…
The Edo State Government on Wednesday said it has placed hospitals across the state on “high alert” over the recent…
THE Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has reported that 1,319 people have died in the country’s ongoing…
THE Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, says no fewer than 1,191 persons have been killed by diphtheria from May,…
THE Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention has recorded about 12,085 suspected cases of diphtheria infections as of September…
A DIPTHERIA outbreak has been declared at South Africa’s Pollsmoor Maximum Security Prison following the death of a 19-year-old inmate.…
BORNO State Primary Healthcare Board says it has recorded 59 deaths out of the 481 diphtheria cases recorded so far…
THE Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency, Dr Faisal Shuaib, on Wednesday,…
THE Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency, Dr Faisal Shuaibu, has said that…
THE Federal Government has recorded 11,587 suspected cases of diphtheria in the country with 7,202 confirmed cases from 105 local…
THE Jigawa State Ministry of Health has confirmed the death of 10 people following an outbreak of 91 suspected cases…