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NCDC director-general Ifedayo Adetifa

September 25, 2023

Nigeria records 210 new cholera cases, 10 deaths

The NCDC said the national multi-sectoral cholera TWG continues to monitor responses across states.

Cholera patients
June 6, 2023

‘Disease X’: NCDC urges Nigeria to prepare well for next pandemic

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) says a peacetime health system is needed to better prepare for the next pandemic.

Covid 19 and NCDC DG, Ifedayo Adetifa
February 14, 2023

Forty people dead as Nigeria records 216 diphtheria cases

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) says the country recorded 216 diphtheria cases and 40 deaths.

Ifedayo Adetifa, NCDC's director-general
August 30, 2022

Nigeria records new Lassa fever cases, Ondo, Edo with highest infections

The NCDC advised people to “eliminate rats in homes and communities by setting traps and other means.”

NCDC/lassa fever specimen
August 14, 2022

NCDC inaugurates biological lab to fight emerging diseases

“It will inform public health decision-making and facilitate the development of diagnostics, therapeutics, and vaccines,” said the NCDC director-general.

NCDC DG, Ifedayo Adetifa and NCDC