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May 28 (THEWILL) — The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has placed Lagos, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Rivers, Kano and several other states on maximum Ebola preparedness alert following fears that the deadly Bundibugyo strain...

May 17, (THEWILL) — The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has assured Nigerians that the country remains safe from Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), with no confirmed case recorded nationwide despite fresh outbreaks reported in the Democratic...

September 16, (THEWILL) — President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of five executive directors to the board of the North Central Development Commission. The commission was established in February 2025 after the president signed the North Central Development...

February 02, (THEWILL) – The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention has issued a travel advisory, urging Nigerians to avoid all non-essential trips to countries with confirmed cases of the Ebola Virus Disease. This advisory comes in the wake...

January 07, (THEWILL) – The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control says the risk of the Human Metapneumo Virus in the country is moderate. HMPV, which was first reported in 2001 in the Netherlands, is a single-stranded ribonucleic acid virus that...

October 18, (THEWILL) – Over 1,100 persons have died across Africa from monkeypox (mpox), Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa-CDC) disclosed. This is just as the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) is facilitating the deployment of...

October 15, (THEWILL) – Mpox has spread to 25 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), affecting 63 local government areas in Nigeria, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) said on Tuesday, in a latest report. According...

August 23, (THEWILL) – The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has recorded 40 confirmed cases of Mpox out of the 830 suspected cases in the country. Speaking at the Joint NCDC/WHO National Mpox Briefing with Stakeholders...

August 16, (THEWILL) – The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, has recorded 39 confirmed cases of monkeypox across 33 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). NCDC Director General, Dr Jide Idris, who made this known at a press...

June 21, (THEWILL) - The Bayelsa State Government, through its Ministry of Health, has faulted the inclusion of Bayelsa on the list of states affected by the cholera epidemic outbreak as recently published by the Nigerian Centre for...