Stakeholders in the health sector have called for a collective action to improve COVID-19 vaccine intake to aid Nigeria achieve the global target. The stakeholders at a meeting with Northern states Heads of Primary Healthcare Development Agencies on Improving COVID-19…
Bankole Taiwo, Abeokuta Ogun state governor, Dapo Abiodun, on Monday, flagged off COVID-19 Mass Vaccination Campaign, with the plan to vaccinate two million people across the state, saying all unvaccinated residents’ risk being barred from government offices, schools, markets and…
By Gloria Akudoro, Abuja In ensuring that the federal civil servants conform to the FG COVID-19 vaccination mandate, the President Nigeria Labour Congress and International Trade Union Confederation, Comrade Ayuba Wabba, has also called on the Federal Government to apply…
Prof. Oyewale Tomori, a former vice-chancellor of the Redeemer’s University, Ede, Osun, has described the decision by the Federal Government to make the COVID-19 vaccination mandatory for federal government workers as well-thought-out. Tomori, who is a virologist, who lauded the…
A Federal High Court in Port Harcourt, the capital of Rivers State capital has granted an order restraining Edo Governor Godwin Obaseki and the Edo government from enforcing a directive mandating all residents of the state to compulsorily get COVID-19…
The Federal Government on Monday began administration of new vaccines marking the start of the second phase of the COVID-19 vaccination programme. Speaking at the inauguration at the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Jabi Abuja, the Secretary to the Government of…
The Federal Government on Monday commenced the administration of new vaccines marking the start of the second phase of the COVID-19 vaccination programme. The second phase of the vaccination programme was breathed into life after the US donated over four…
The Federal Government has postponed the second phase of the national vaccination programme. The second phase was expected to kickstart on Tuesday after the US donated over four million doses of the Moderna vaccine. But in a statement on Sunday,…
A Haematologist, Dr Patrick Obinna, says there is need for Nigerians with Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) to be given priority access to COVID-19 vaccination. Obinna, who spoke with the Newsmen in Abuja ahead of World Sickle Cell Day marked annually…
The Ogun State Pilgrims Welfare Board says receiving of COVID-19 vaccination will begin on Saturday, April 10 for intending pilgrims of 2021 Hajj. The Executive Secretary of the State Pilgrims Welfare Board, Alhaji Babatunde Salau, made this known to newsmen…
