NIGERIA and 54 other African countries are to benefit from the donation of 220m doses of the Johnson & Johnson single-dose vaccine after the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) signed a supply agreement with Janssen Pharmaceutica.
Under the programme due to be introduced by the end of 2022, some 35m doses are to be...
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Nigeria's economic and human development indicators will be compared annually with those of other Mint nations like Mexico, Indonesia and Turkey and Brics nations like Brazil, India, Russia, China and South Africa, to ensure we never fall behind
At the moment, Nigeria's human development index is on a par with...
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(1) Are you aware that in 2003, President Olusegun Obasanjo signed the Maputo Declaration compelling the federal and 36 state governors to spending 10% of their annual budgets on agricultural projects?
(2) Designed to combat unemployment, guarantee food security and ensure no African nation is wholly dependent on one...
SOUTH Africa has stopped administering the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine after doubts were raised about the efficacy of the jab against its local strain of the virus and has sold off 1m doses of its remaining consignment to 14 other African nations.
Last month, South Africa suspended its vaccination programme which had...
PRESIDENT Joe Biden has offered to attend the next African Union (AU) summit as part of his administration's collegiate approach to global affairs in stark contrast to the unilateralist America-first policy of his predecessor Donald Trump.
Between 2017 and 2021, President Trump adopted a unilateralist approach to foreign...
WORLD Bank managers have set aside a sum of $12bn to fund the purchase of coronavirus vaccines for Africa as part of a global to ensure that billions of people are vaccinated worldwide before the end of the year.
Medical experts have warned that Nigeria needs to set aside N540.4bn ($1.4bn) to purchase 218.m doses of the new...
NIGERIA has been told she needs to set aside N540.4bn ($1.4bn) to purchase 218.m doses of the new coronavirus vaccine next month if the nation wants to combat the growing second wave of the pandemic currently sweeping across the globe.
Over the last week, Nigeria has witnessed a surge in the number of Covid-19 cases as the...
FORMER finance minister and African Union (AU) special envoy on coronavirus Dr Okonjo-Iweala has promised that Nigerians and other Africans will have access to the new Covid-19 vaccine as from the end of January.
Earlier this year, Dr Okonjo-Iweala was appointed by the AU as its special envoy to solicit international support...
NIGERIA'S federal government plans to solicit the support of the National Assembly in formulating a national policy on the use of social media in what it describes as a war of the spread of fake mews and misinformation.
Alhaji Lai Mohammed, Nigeria's information minister, who appeared before the House of Representatives...
