Tag: NCDC

Lassa fever kills 166, spreads across 21 states – NCDC

Aminu Imam
NCDC on Lassa fever

Nigeria has recorded 166 deaths from Lassa fever in 2025, as the outbreak continues to spread across 21 states, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, (NCDC), has confirmed. The agency, in its epidemiological week 37 report, said the current case fatality rate of 18.5% is higher than the 16.9% reported during the same period last year. So far in 2025, Nigeria has logged 7,673 suspected cases, of which 895 were confirmed and seven classified as probable. These were reported across 106 local government areas in 21 states. For…

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Lassa fever, meningitis kill 366 in 24 states – NCDC

Aminu Imam
NCDC on Lassa

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, (NCDC), has reported a total of 366 deaths from Lassa fever and meningitis in the country, highlighting the continued public health challenge posed by these diseases. From January 1 to May 18, 2025, the NCDC confirmed 733 cases of Lassa fever from 5,118 suspected infections across 18 states and 95 local government areas. Within the same period, the country recorded 141 Lassa fever-related deaths, representing a case fatality rate of 19.2 percent. Separately, between September 30, 2024, and April 6, 2025, the…

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“Anti-microbial resistance deadlier than HIV, TB, malaria’ – NCDC

Aminu Imam
NCDC warns

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, (NCDC), has raised the alarm over the growing threat of Anti-microbial Resistance. The NCDC described AMR as a ‘silent killer’ deadlier than malaria, Tuberculosis, and Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) combined. The NCDC Director General, Dr Jide Idris, said this in an interview with the yesterday in Abuja, highlighting the urgent need to tackle the global health threat, which many Nigerians remained unaware of. Idris said, “AMR is a silent killer. It kills more than the combination of malaria, tuberculosis, and HIV/AIDS together.…

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Lassa Fever: 174 deaths recorded from 1,025 confirmed cases – NOA

Aminu Imam
Lassa Fever

The National Orientation Agency, (NOA), has disclosed that the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC)’s Epidemiological Report of Week-41 indicates that from October 2024 to date, 1,025 cases of Lassa Fever were confirmed across 28 States of the federation, with  174 deaths, representing a fatality ratio of 17%. The NOA Director-General, Dr. Lanre Onilu, disclosed this in a press briefing to mark the commencement of the organisation’s nationwide campaign to create awareness of the preventable measures that will help nip in the bud the infection and spread of Lassa Fever.…

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Lassa fever: NCDC records 832 cases, 152 deaths in four months

Aminu Imam
Lassa fever

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC), says it recorded 5,669 suspected Lassa fever cases and 152 deaths, with a Case Fatality Rate of 18.3 percent. According to the ‘Lassa Fever Situation Report’ posted on its website on Monday, the NCDC said 832 cases were confirmed from the suspected cases from 27 states across 126 local government areas from January to April 14, 2024. According to the World Health Organisation, (WHO), Lassa fever is an acute viral haemorrhagic illness caused by the Lassa virus, a member of the…

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Nigeria records 244 cases of Lassa fever, 37 deaths – NCDC

Aminu Imam

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) registered 244 confirmed cases of Lassa Fever in 16 states and the FCT as of Jan. 22. The Centre’s Director-General, Dr. Ifedayo Adetifa, told newsmen yesterday, in Abuja, that the centre also recorded 37 deaths, a case-fatality rate of 15.1 percent. The Lassa fever infections were recorded in Ondo State (90); Edo (89); Bauchi (13); Taraba (10); Benue (9); Ebonyi (9); Nasarawa (7), and Plateau, (5). Others are Kogi (4); Anambra (2); Delta (1); Oyo (1); Adamawa (1); Enugu (1); Imo…

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Marburg virus alert: “Avoid unnecessary travels”, FG tells Nigerians

Aminu Imam

The Federal Government has urged Nigerians to avoid non-essential travels to locations where the outbreak of the Marburg virus disease (MVD) has been reported for the time being. This advisory, among others, is coming from the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) as the Ghanaian authorities declared an outbreak of the MVD, which was confirmed by the World Health Organisation (WHO) on the 17th of July 2022. While the NCDC stated the overall risk of both importations of the disease and its potential impact on the Nigerian population is moderate,…

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NCDC issues Lassa fever alert, as death toll hits 102

Aminu Imam

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, (NCDC), has issued a warning over Lassa fever cases, which it says has risen to 4,632, with 102 deaths. The NCDC, in its latest advisory on Monday, announced the possibility of Lassa fever presenting malaria-like symptoms such as fever, headache, sore throat, general body weakness, cough among others. The centre said it has sent letters to states on the dangers of Lassa fever and the symptoms to look out for. Since the last outbreak of the disease in 2016, the agency observed that there…

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COVID-19: Nigeria records 859 infections, two deaths on Monday

Ishaku Yohanna

859 persons have caught the COVID-19 virus in Nigeria on Monday. The country also lost two persons to the virus on the same day. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, stated on Tuesday that Monday’s figures raised the country’s infection tally to Two Hundred and Thirty Eight, Four Hundred and Twenty and the death toll to Three Thousand and Twenty-Four. It stated that the two deaths were recorded in the FCT. In Monday’s 859 infections, Lagos State took the lead with 555 victims up from the 401 infections it recorded on Sunday.…

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Omicron: NCDC confirms 3 new cases as UK detects virus in 7 Nigerian travellers

Aminu Imam

…Senate, Reps. kick over travel ban The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, (NCDC), yesterday, confirmed three additional cases of Covid-19 with the Omicron variant. The three cases were in addition to the three earlier announced on December 1. This brings the tally of confirmed Omicron cases in Nigeria to six. The NCDC, in a statement by its Director-General, Dr. Ifedayo Adetifa, noted that all the Omicron cases, so far, were detected in persons with recent travel history to South Africa in November. This came as the United Kingdom government said…

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