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Ebola: Biosafety Agency Deploys Experts to Back NCDC Containment Efforts

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Director-General and Chief Executive Officer of the NBMA, Dr Fatima Suleiman-Zuntu, who announced the agency's readiness to support the national response, urged Nigerians to remain calm but vigilant and adhere strictly to official public health advisories.
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Ebola: NCDC Orders States Into Full Emergency Readiness, Places Lagos, Rivers, FCT, Kano On Maximum Alert

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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...
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Nigeria Safe From Ebola – NCDC Assures Amid Fresh Outbreak In DRC, Uganda

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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...
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Tinubu Appoints Sanni, Uloko, Others As NCDC Executive Directors

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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...
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Ebola Outbreak: NCDC Issues Travel Advisory, Calls For Caution

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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...
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NCDC Rates Nigeria’s Risk Of HMPV As Moderate, Announces Preventive Measures

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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...
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NCDC Plans 10,000 Doses Of Vaccine For High-Risk Groups As Mpox Fatalities Hit 1,100 In Africa

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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...
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Mpox Spreads To 63 LGs In 25 States, FCT – NCDC

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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...
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Mpox: NCDC Reports 40 Confirmed Cases, WHO Declares Nigeria Moderate Risk

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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...
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Nigeria Records 39 Mpox Cases, Zero Fatality

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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...
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South African Woman, US-Based Grandma Arrested With Large Cocaine, Loud Shipments

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a 34-year-old South African woman, Qhina Beauty, with 36.65 kilograms of cocaine at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Ikeja, Lagos, as the agency intensified its crackdown on international and domestic drug trafficking networks.
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