JAPAN has donated 859,600 doses of AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine to Nigeria through the Vaccines Global Assess Facility Covax as part of its contribution to the global fight against the pandemic.
Earlier today, the Japanese ambassador to Nigeria Matsunaga Kazuyoshi, presented the vaccines and 175 solar direct drive (SDD) cold...
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...
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...
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...
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