Lagos State has achieved significant success in its 2024 Measles and Yellow Fever Mass Vaccination Campaign, with over 85 percent of children vaccinated against measles and nearly 95 percent coverage in yellow fever immunizations. Supervising Permanent Secretary of the Lagos…
By Omolola Dede Adeyanju As Lagos State Government in conjunction with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) sets to kick-off vaccinations on Saturday, 19th October, they have assured all Lagosians of the safety of all vaccines to be administered, stressing…
The National Primary Health Care Development Agency has said the tentative date to commence vaccination for mpox is October 8, 2024. The Head of the Public Relations Unit at the NPHCDA, Remi Adeleke, who disclosed this exclusively to our correspondent…
A non-governmental organisation — Challenged Parenthood Initiative — has expressed concern about what it describes as poor response to COVID-19 vaccination by the residents of Kogi. The Executive Director of the organisation, Mrs Eunice Abimbola, expressed the concern in Lokoja…
Issues regarding COVID-19 pandemic has assumed new narratives with recent development demanding the need for new directives and response structures. The progressive mutations of the Virus to more transmissible and deadly variants have informed changes in guidelines across the world.…
The preesure of world leaders were seen to have found some respite since the success of the development of a vaccine against the deadly COVID-19 which saw the world been plunged into crisis of lockdown, amid colossal losses of lives…
Bankole Taiwo, Abeokuta Ogun State has been rated the top performing state in the ongoing mass vaccination campaign against Covid-19, a report by the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency (NPHDA) has indicated. Coming after Ogun in performance rating are Zamfara,…
COVID-19 vaccination has already started to generate heated arguments following a hint that the Federal Government could start sanctioning anybody who refuses to be vaccinated. Dr Faisal Shuaib, Executive Director, National Primary Healthcare Development Agency (NPHDA), disclosed this at a…
By Taofeek Lawal, Abuja The senator representing the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), in the upper chamber of the National Assembly, Senator Philips Tanimu Aduda, has commended the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), on how it has handled the administration of…
The Federal Government is proposing to spend the sum of N396 billion for the COVID-19 vaccination in 2021 and 2022. The Minister of Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed disclosed this on Wednesday after the weekly Federal Executive Council meeting,…
