NIGERIAN government officials have published the passport numbers of 100 travellers who failed to undergo the mandatory Covid-19 test upon arriving in the country from overseas who will now be barred from travelling for six months.
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NIGERIAN-American health policy adviser Osaremen Okolo has been appointed as a member of US president-elect Joe Biden's Covid-19 Response Team with a mandate to ensure all Americans are vaccinated against the virus next year.
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NIGERIA faces the prospect of increased incidences of coronavirus due to the growth of corruption in the fight against the pandemic as international travellers are now obtaining fake Covid-19 health certificates.
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Ayo Akinfe
(1) We insist the likes of Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline open manufacturing plants in Nigeria. If they do not, we will ban flights to Europe and the US
(2) We open up a tourist convalescence centre in Lagos, similar to the cancer...
NIGERIAN senators are considering banning flights from the UK and the US as part of new protective measures required to combat the spread of the coronavirus pandemic by limiting travel from countries with high infection rates.
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ONDO and Ogun State governments have banned all overnight vigils between now and the new year as part of new stringent health measures introduced to combat the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.
Over the last few weeks, the number of...
NIGERIAN health officials have announced plans to vaccinate at least 100m people against the Covid-19 virus by March under an ambitious programme to insulate the country from the dreaded global pandemic.
Medical experts have warned that...
NIGERIA'S federal government has announced that any ban imposed on flights to and from the UK in response to the emergence of a new strain of the Covid-19 virus will be done in conjunction with neighbouring West African countries.
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RESIDENTS of Lagos State who contravene the coronavirus restrictions introduced by the state government face the risk of being sent to jail for a one year period as the authorities clamp down on protocol abuses as a second wave of the pandemic...
NIGERIA'S National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (Nafdac) has announced that it leveraging technology to trace vaccines in the hope that it will be able to assist local companies to start manufacturing when the Covid-19 vaccine...