NIGERIA'S federal government has revealed that over 14m people have so far received at least one shot of the coronavirus vaccine with over 5m getting two doses and less than half a million getting the third booster dose.
According to statistics just revealed by Dr Faisal Shuaib, the executive director of the National Primary...
NIGERIA'S federal government has destroyed about 1,066,214 doses of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines donated to the country because they remained unused up until their expiry date and are no longer fit for human consumption.
With no pharmaceutical company producing a vaccine locally, Nigeria is wholly dependent on foreign...
NIGERIANS travelling to the UK will still be isolated for seven days for the foreseeable future as the British government yet to comprehensively review Nigeria’s vaccination certification programme.
According to the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), although the vaccines administered in Nigeria were...
BRITAIN has assured the federal government that under no circumstances will Nigeria be added to the red list of countries whose citizens face severe restrictions when they visit the UK as they are happy with the nation's vaccination programme.
As part of its easing down programme, the UK has introduced a traffic light health...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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