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Abia Nzelu: How to tackle Nigeria’s second wave of cervical cancer

The whole world is currently grappling with the second surge of COVID-19 infection. This pandemic destabilised year 2020, affecting over 85 million people and...

EU to purchase more 300m doses of Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, research claims it might be effective against new strains

The European Commission has renewed a contract with pharmaceutical companies Pfizer and BioNTech to purchase an additional 300 million doses of their vaccine against...

Nigeria and the world in a pandemic year

Nigeria became a beautiful bride of sort in a year of pandemic as the international community came to her aid in the fight against...

Africa’s COVID-19 cases near 3m as death toll hits 69,000

The World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Office for Africa in Brazzaville, Congo, says there are over 2.9 million confirmed COVID-19 cases on the African...

AfDB approves five-year gender strategy to boost inclusive growth

The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group has approved a new Gender Strategy for 2021 to 2025 tagged “Investing in Africa’s women to accelerate inclusive...

Second COVID-19 wave ravaging the land, claiming lives, says LUTH CMD

Chief Medical Director (CMD), Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi-Araba, Lagos, Prof. Chris Bode, has said that the COVID-19 second wave was ravaging the...

British dialysis patient first to receive AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine

A dialysis patient is the first person in the world to receive the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine outside a clinical trial. Brian Pinker, 82, received the jab at Oxford...

Bulgaria reports four cases of side effects from Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine

Four Bulgarians vaccinated against the Coronavirus (COVID-19) with the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine developed mild to moderate side effects, Bulgarian Drug Agency executive director Bogdan Kirilov...

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A third of animal habitats could experience multiple extreme events by 2085 – Study

By 2085, 36 percent of species’ current habitats on land could be exposed to multiple types of climate-driven extreme...
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Leaders call for Africa-led solutions following landmark court ruling on climate obligations

African leaders, policymakers, legal experts, scientists and practitioners have called for African-led solutions to climate change, as its impacts...

Two-thirds of global hunger concentrated in 10 countries – Report 

The 2026 Global Report on Food Crises on Friday, April 24, revealed that two-thirds of all people facing high...

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