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...
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Getting Innoson to purchase the rights of The Beetle from Volkswagen so it can manufacture electric cars in Nnewi
Establishing a massive cattle ranch in Abia State to supply the leather for a shoemaking conglomerate in Aba
Getting a pharmaceutical giant like Pfizer to open a plant in Owerri or Orlu. It should start...
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If Nigeria had offered Pfizer and AstraZeneca land to build a factory that will produce 100m doses of a coronavirus vaccine annually
In conjunction with Air Peace, Nigeria offered to distribute Covid-19 vaccines across the African continent
Nigeria’s federal government took out a stake in a joint venture between...
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President Recep Erdogan of Turkey just completed a two-day visit to Nigeria during which both countries signed eight bilateral deals in areas that covered energy, defence, mining and hydrocarbons among others
Nigeria and Turkey are both members of the Mint Group of Nations that was supposed to be the...
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First of all the military clampdown must end today. There are no Boko Haram or Iswap terrorists in the southeast, so all political prisoners should be released, all charges against Nnamdi Kanu should be dropped and Ipob should be recognised as a civil society agitation group. Southeast Nigeria is not Sambisa Forest or...
SCIENCE and technology minister Dr Ogbonnaya Onu has revealed that Nigeria is working hard to produce a locally made coronavirus vaccine to enable its professionals and scientists to be involved in mass production of a drug.
Like most African nations, Nigeria is not involved in the production of any of the major coronavirus...
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Pfizer
AstraZeneca
Zoom
Shopify
Netflix
T-Mobile
PayPal Holdings
NVIDIA Corp
Facebook
Tencent Holdings
They all enjoyed huge rises in their share prices and market capitalisation following the outbreak of the pandemic. Just imagine the revenue this would have generated for the Nigerian...
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...
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(1) Sell it to a steel company at a giveaway price to convert it into a manufacturing plant. Just imagine how Corus Steel would love the gift of a readymade plant
(2) Invite oil companies to come and buy it and convert into a facility that can rival Dangote’s Lekki plant. Dangote’s facility can meet all Nigeria’s...