NIGERIA'S federal government has received $8m worth of personal protective equipment (PPE) and medical consumables from the United Nation’s Children Fund (Unicef) as part of the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic.
In the main, Nigeria has been spared the worst of the global pandemic with casualty figures very low but the...
MILLIONAIRE clergyman and general overseer of the Living Faith Church International Church Pastor David Oyedepo has warned his members not to take the Covid-19 vaccine saying that instead the government should come to him for a remedy.
Although spared the worst of the coronavirus pandemic, Nigeria has so far had 165,419...
NIGERIA is to receive a consignment of 29.8m doses of the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine through the Covid-19 Vaccines Global Assess Facility (Covax) facility by the end of May or in early June.
Funded by the World Health Organisation (WHO), Covax was set-up to divide about 2bn doses of vaccines across 92 low-and...
KATSINA State has recorded an impressive79% vaccination rate after the first phase of the implementation of the Covid-19 vaccination campaign with an overwhelming majority of the state's residents expressing confidence in the programme.
Last month, Nigeria received her first batch of the AstraZeneca vaccine with 4m doses...
INDIA has donated 100,000 does of its Covishield coronavirus vaccine to Nigeria through the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) as part of a programme to enable the country carry through its vaccination programme.
Early last month, Nigeria received its first batch of 4m doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca...
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 safe.
Earlier this week, Nigeria received her first batch of the vaccine with 4m doses flown in...
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.
Up until now, Nigeria was undecided about how to proceed with vaccination and the government...
NIGERIA has failed to make the World Health Organisation (WHO) shortlist of nations that qualify to receive the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine because of the country’s inability to meet the standard requirement of being able to offer storage at the required -70 degrees Celsius.
With the vaccine being distributed worldwide, the...
GOVERNORS of Nigeria's 19 northern states have undertaken to be the first ones to receive the new Covid-19 vaccine when it becomes available to help dispel any fears that it is not safe or is part of a plot to infect people.
Next month, Nigeria intends to take delivery of the first batch of the Pfizer vaccine and after that,...
NIGERIAN health officials have now revealed that the long-awaited Covid-19 vaccine will arrive in the country in late March after an agreement has been reached to be supplied through the African Vaccine Acquisition Task Team (Avatt).
Medical experts have warned that Nigeria needs to set aside N540.4bn ($1.4bn) to purchase...
