President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice – President Yemi Osinbajo were on Saturday vaccinated against COVID -19. Buhari was vaccinated by his personal physician , Dr . Suhayb Sanusi, at about 11. 51am at a brief ceremony witnessed by top government officials at the New Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa , Abuja . Shortly after […]
The Federal Government , through the National Primary Health Care Development Agency , has budgeted the sum of N 10. 6bn to transport COVID -19 vaccine to the 36 states and the 774 local government areas as well as the Federal Capital Territory and the five area councils . Also , about N 1. 4bn […]
Nigeria has administered the first dose of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine as efforts heighten to fight the pandemic. The first shot of the vaccine was given to Cyprian Nyong, a medical doctor at the National Hospital, Abuja. Faisal Shuaib, chief executive officer of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), administered the dosage. He […]
Nigeria will commence the vaccination against COVID-19 on Friday, the Federal Government said two days after it received the first batch of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines. The Executive Director of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), Dr Faisal Shuaib, announced this on Thursday at a presidential briefing held at the State House in Abuja, […]
The Federal Government has said states who have not met the criteria for vaccine safety won ’ t get share of the about four million doses of AstraZeneca /Oxford COVID – 19 vaccines in the country . Executive Director , National Primary Health Care Development Agency , Dr Faisal Shuaib , disclosed this at a […]
An Emirate plane — Boeing 777300ER, carrying 3.92 million doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine arrives at the Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport Abuja in Nigeria at 11.36 a.m. on Tuesday, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. The vaccine shipment is from COVAX, a global scheme to procure and distribute inoculations for free, as the world […]
Ahead of the delivery of 3,924,000 doses of the AstraZeneca-Oxford COVID-19 vaccine, Nigerians can now register online for vaccination via the website of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency, NPHCDA. Known as the Electronic Management of Immunization Data, EMID, Registration Portal, the platform captures data and schedules persons for COVID 19 vaccination. Making the […]
The Federal Government has said four million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines will arrive the country on Tuesday morning. The Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) and Chairman, Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19, Boss Mustapha, said this in a voice and video message made available to journalists. The government, which had earlier […]
The COVAX initiative has shipped 504, 000 doses of the AstraZeneca /Oxford vaccine to Abidjan, the economic capital of Côte d ’ Ivoire . This makes Côte d ’ Ivoire the second African country and first French – speaking country to receive vaccine doses through the COVAX Facility, the World Health Organisation says . COVAX […]
US President Joe Biden has lifted a restriction placed on the issuance of green cards. In April 2020, former President Donald Trump blocked the issuance of new green cards as a move to “protect American jobs”. He had argued that the ban, which blocked US permanent residence for Nigerians and other countries, was needed to […]
