NSSF seeks support to vaccinate 1m Nigerians
The Nigeria Solidarity Support Fund (NSSF) has intensified its plea to the public for support to mobilise and aggregate resources for Nigeria’s fight against the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is the director-general and first African head of the World Trade Organization (WTO). In this interview, she tells the FT Africa Summit that she expects global supply…
Lagos to weigh Nigeria’s future in genomics, vaccine development
The Lagos State Government will weigh Nigeria’s future in genomic surveillance and vaccine development at the seventh ‘Annual African Conference on One Health and Biosecurity’ billed for…
Imposition of vaccine passports for air travel, not in Africa’s interest…
African ministers of aviation have described the proposal to impose vaccine passports for air travelers as unacceptable and tantamount to discrimination against certain groups of the…
‘AstraZeneca Vaccines in Nigeria are equivalent to any others in the world’
As constraints on supplies continue to affect the delivery rate of COVAX, the global facility for equitable vaccine distribution, AstraZeneca, a central player in the scheme with more than 1…
WHO allays fears of global recognition of COVID-19 vaccine cardholders
The World Health Organization has assured that discussions are ongoing to ensure that measures reportedly recognizing certain COVID-19 vaccines as permitted in some European countries do not…
News Roundup: FG to roll out 5G network, China Declares Cryptocurrency Transactions…
Nigerian Government to roll out 5G network by January 2022
The Federal Government has announced that the Five Generation (5G) network will be available in Nigeria by January 2022 in a bid…
NSSF needs N6.1b to vaccinate one million vulnerable Nigerians – Chinye-Nwoko
Unsatisfied that vaccine scarcity and inequity has left much of Nigeria unprotected against the raging COVID-19 pandemic, Nigeria Solidarity Support Fund (NSSF), a not-for-profit…
Nigeria’s herd immunity goal suffers on vaccine shortage
Nigeria may never achieve its herd immunity goal of fully vaccinating up to 70 percent of its population against the coronavirus pandemic, as access to vaccines remains stifled and hesitancy…
Coro: Coming and going 3rd time around conspiracy theories and vaccine hesitancy
I will start today from an unrelated development. On 27/8/21, I saw a report on the front page of ThisDay that the author and finisher of Hopism, Governor Hope Uzodinma of Imo state had…