The Minister of Finance , Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, on Thursday, said the Federal Government would prepare a supplementary budget to be sent to the National Assembly to cater for COVID – 19 vaccines and vaccination . She said the fiscal document would be prepared in March . Ahmed spoke at the maiden […]
An Iranian cleric has claimed that the Covid-19 vaccine turns people gay. Ayatollah Abbas Tabrizian made the claims on messaging platform Telegram, where he has almost 210,000 followers, according to The Daily Mail. Tabrizian wrote on the platform: “Don’t go near those who have had the COVID vaccine. They have become homosexuals.” Prominent LGBTQ campaigner […]
The Federal Government has raised the alarm over the circulation of fake COVID-19 vaccines in the country, warning Nigerians of dangerous consequences should they resort to taking such uncertified jab. It added that following the recent certification given by the National Agency for Food Drug Administration and Control NAFDAC for the use of AstraZeneca vaccines, […]
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) on Thursday disclosed that it has approved the use of Astrazeneca/Oxford vaccine for Emergency Use Listing by World Health Organisation (WHO) in Nigeria. Speaking at press briefing in Abuja, the Director General of NAFDAC, Professor Mojisola Adeyeye, said the agency got the dossier of […]
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has received dossiers for Chinese vaccine and three others for evaluation amid the ravaging COVID-19 pandemic in the country. This is according to the Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire, who addressed reporters in Abuja on Monday during a briefing by the Presidential Task Force […]
Firm commits to purchase of 5 million AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines BUA, one of Africa’s largest conglomerates, yesterday, said it has paid for one million doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines for Nigeria through the AFREXIM Vaccine programme in partnership with CACOVID. These doses of the vaccine, which should be delivered by next week, according to the […]
President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday, promised that Nigeria would continue to partner with the World Health Organisation and other countries to ensure accelerated development and manufacturing as well as unhindered supply of safe and effective coronavirus vaccines to all Africans . Buhari made the promise in his remarks while participating in the virtual 34th ordinary […]
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says Nigeria was adjudged ready to receive the Pfizer vaccine but failed to get supplies because of limited doses. The global health body said the country was among the nine in Africa recommended as “ready to deploy the Pfizer vaccine”. More to follow…
The World Health Organisation- led COVAX global initiative has failed to shortlist Nigeria for the Pfizer vaccines following the country’ s inability to meet the standard requirement of being able to store the vaccines at the required – 70 degrees Celsius. The Nigerian government had stated that it was expected to receive 100, 000 doses […]
COVAX, the global alliance against COVID-19, has donated a total of 16,008,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine to Nigeria. In a distribution forecast published on Wednesday, the coalition said the AstraZaneca/Oxford vaccine doses will cover the first half of 2021. A total of 336 million doses were announced to be donated to over 120 countries. COVAX, […]
