NIGERIA has just taken delivery over 4m doses of the Moderna coronavirus vaccine from the US received by United Nations Children Fund (Unicef) officials in Abuja as President Joe Biden fulfils his pledge to assist poorer countries with vaccination.
Upon assuming office in January, President Biden promised to assist poor and...
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...
NIGERIA looks set to benefit from the supply of more doses of the coronavirus vaccine after the Group of Seven (G7) nations approved a $650bn loan to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to purchase more shipments for developing countries.
Last week, the G7 met in the UK where among other things, it agreed to bankroll the...
RENOWNED virologist and former vice chancellor of the Redeemer’s University Professor Oyewale Tomori has blamed inconsistent government policies and personal interest as being among the reasons why Nigeria is unable to produce human vaccines.
With the Covid-19 pandemic ravaging the globe, Nigeria is one nation that is...
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...
SUB-Saharan Africa needs to attract $245bn in investment over the next five years while the continent as a whole needs as much as $425bn if it is to recover from the debilitating impact of the coronavirus pandemic according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Although Africa has been spared the worst of the Covid-19...
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...
NIGERIA'S ongoing vaccination plan is facing derailment after India suspended the exports of the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine from the Serum Institute in what is believed to be a response to growing domestic shortages.
Early this month, Nigeria received its first batch of 4m doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus...
LOCAL Nigerian scientists have produced two local coronavirus vaccines from native plants and are currently awaiting clinical trials and certification of the products according to the presidential task force on Covid-19.
With a population of 200m, Nigeria needs purchase about 218.m doses of the coronavirus vaccine if the...
