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...
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...
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...
NIGERIAN government officials have decided to proceed with the purchase of Oxford/AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine later this year as part of its programme to combat the spread of the virus across the country.
Medical experts have warned that Nigeria needs to set aside N540.4bn ($1.4bn) to purchase 218.m doses of the new...
Ayo Akinfe
(1) Looking at the collegiate approach President Biden is adopting, it is crystal clear that the way forward over the next four years will be team politics
(2) President Biden has already cancelled the bilateral Keystone XL Pipeline contract with Canada in favour of the more multilateral approach as epitomised by the...
NIGERIA has still not made any budgetary provision for the purchase of a Covid-19 vaccine despite plans to purchase about 218.m doses of the new coronavirus vaccine in a bid to combat the second wave of the virus.
With the second wave of the virus sweeping across the globe, Nigeria has been told she needs to set aside...
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 recovery centres in Mexico
(3) We distribute any vaccine all across Africa and bill the...
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 needs to set aside N540.4bn ($1.4bn) to purchase 218.m doses of the new...
Ayo Akinfe
(1) 50,000MW of electricity
(2) An elimination of Boko Haram
(3) All Fulani herdsmen have been disarmed
(4) Charges against all political prisoners have been dropped
(5) All public officials have committed to eschewing corruption
(6) Pfizer has agreed to open a global vaccine manufacturing plant in Nigeria
(7) Russia...
