PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari and vice president Professor Yemi Osinbajo are to receive shots of the AstraZeneca/Oxford Covid-19 vaccines this Saturday as part of a public relations exercise to convince Nigerians that vaccination is...
BRITISH prime minister Boris Johnson Nigerian church and community leaders in the UK including Pastor Sola Fola-Alade in a bid to get them to persuade their members to take the Covid-19 vaccination which many of them are...
FORMER Imo State governor Senator Rochas Okorocha has accused the incumbent government of attempting to assassinate his son-in-law Uzor Anwuka who was shot last weekend when he joined his father-in-law in an altercation with the...
NIGERIA is set to receive its first batch of 4m doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine this Tuesday under the Covid-19 Vaccines Global Assess Facility (Covax) programme aimed at catering for the needs of poor...
NIGERIA'S minister for humanitarian affairs and social development Sadiya Farouq has warned that the coronavirus pandemic could drag another 10m people into extreme poverty by the end of 2021.
Currently, Nigeria is the poverty capital...
NIGERIA'S National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (Nafdac) has approved the Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine for use across the country as ministers prepare to start a mass vaccination programme next month.
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BRITISH healthcare agency Public Health England (PHE) has found 38 cases of a new Nigerian Covid-19 strain currently raging which is causing grave concerns as it is reported to be less effective against vaccination.
Following its latest...
NIGERIA'S Presidential Task Force (PTF) on Covid-19 has decided to step up the implementation of its travel restriction guidelines by threatening to apprehend those who defy the quarantine protocols and forcefully detain...
VICE president Professor Yemi Osinbajo has announced ambitious plans to ensure that about 30% of Nigeria's electricity supply is generated from clean energy and renewable sources by 2030 as part of the nation's contribution to cutting greenhouse...
AFRICAN Development Bank (AfDB) president Dr Akinwunmi Adesina has warned that the continent desperately needs debt relief and fair access to one of the coronavirus vaccine if it is to overcome the economic fallout of the...