NIGERIAN health officials have provided assurances that the first batch of Covid-19 vaccines will arrive the country by the end of January at the latest and a mass vaccination programme will commence immediately.
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 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...African News
NIGERIA'S National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (Nafdac) has announced that it leveraging technology to trace vaccines in the hope that it will be able to assist local companies to start manufacturing when the Covid-19 vaccine arrives.
Medical experts have warned that Nigeria needs to set aside...African News
NIGERIA has been told she needs to set aside N540.4bn ($1.4bn) to purchase 218.m doses of the new coronavirus vaccine next month if the nation wants to combat the growing second wave of the pandemic currently sweeping across the globe.
Over the last week, Nigeria has witnessed a surge in the number of Covid-19 cases as the...African News
HEALTH minister Dr Osagie Ehanire has assured Nigerians that they will begin receiving the new coronavirus vaccine as from January next year following the entering into an agreement between the federal government and the World Health Organisation (WHO).
Although spared the worst excesses of the global pandemic, Nigeria has...
WORLD Health Organisation (WHO) officials have warned that the anti-viral drug Remdesivir should not be used for hospitalized Covid-19 patients because trials have failed to prove that the medicine is effective.
Since the pandemic swept across the globe early this year, scientists have been working no-stop to try and find a...
NIGERIA'S former finance minister Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has been named as the new director-general of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) after winning the final selection round this morning with a landslide victory.
Dr Okonjo-Iweala, 66, has been involved in a two-horse race for the job alongside South Korea's trade...
FORMER finance minister Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala moved a step closer to being named the new World Trade Organisation (WTO) director-general yesterday after she was named as one of the two shortlisted candidates.
Dr Okonjo-Iweala, 66, was one of seven candidates seeking to be named as the next WTO boss through a process whereby...
NIGERIA needs to quadruple the number of nurses and midwives she has from the current figure of around 200,000 to about 800,000 to meet up with the country's health demands according to the findings of a new survey.
With a population of 200m, Nigeria apparently has a very low health workers to patients ratio and unless the...
NIGERIA'S former finance minister Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has stepped up her campaign to become the next director-general of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) by pledging that if she gets elected she will ensure that a coronavirus vaccine is made available to all nations.
Dr Okonjo-Iweala, 65, is one of seven candidates...
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