COVAX Facility

WHO: Nigeria, 12 other African nations yet to surpass 10% coronavirus vaccination

April 11, 2022

The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB), yesterday, approved a $210 million loan to Nigeria to fund agro-industrial processing zones in different parts of the country.

AfDB plans to invest $3 billion in vaccine production

February 7, 2022

Kenya is establishing a fill-and-finish facility for Covid-19 vaccines ahead of setting up a full-scale manufacturing plant to guarantee supply.

Botswana has stockpile of 3 million coronavirus vaccines, starts offering booster jabs

January 26, 2022

Namibia has warned that more than 268 000 doses of AstraZeneca and Pfizer Covid-19 vaccines are at risk of being destroyed, some as early as next week, due to a slow uptake by citizens.

Attah Igala urges Nigerians to ignore negative perception about coronavirus vaccine

November 26, 2021

Coronavirus: Only 27% of health workers in Africa fully vaccinated – WHO

November 25, 2021

Coronavirus: Over three million Nigerians fully vaccinated – NPHCDA

November 16, 2021

Nigerian government asks civil servants to take vaccine or present negative coronavirus result

October 15, 2021

Nigerian government may expand access to coronavirus vaccination ahead of December deadline

October 15, 2021

The Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has denied having an affiliation with any support group projecting him for the 2023 presidential race.

Minister: We can’t continue to depend on other countries for vaccines

October 12, 2021

Faisal Shuaib, Executive Director of the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency, made this known during the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 press conference held in Abuja on Tuesday.

Coronavirus: Nigeria not among red listed countries – NPHCDA boss

October 5, 2021

Children walk past graffiti depicting a representation of the coronavirus and warning people to sanitize to prevent its spread, in the Mathare slum of Nairobi, Kenya, April 22, 2020.

WHO: Rich countries’ chokehold on coronavirus vaccines prolongs pandemic in Africa

September 18, 2021

WHO: 42 African countries may miss crucial September coronavirus vaccination goal

September 3, 2021

Although, there are fears over the safety of the vaccines, the Executive Director of NPHCDA, Faisal Shuaib, said there was enthusiasm in Nigeria over Monday’s arrival of 4 million doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 jabs..

Nigeria set to receive four million doses of Modena vaccines

July 31, 2021

The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday it has approved a COVID-19 vaccine made by Sinovac Biotech for emergency use listing, paving the way for a second Chinese shot to be used in poor countries.

Botswana pays equivalent of $15 a dose for Sinovac’s coronavirus vaccine

July 30, 2021

(FILES) In this file photo taken on December 24, 2020 a person unpacks a special refrigerated box of Moderna Covid-19 at the East Boston Neighborhood Health Center (EBNHC) in Boston, Massachusetts on December 24, 2020. – An American pharmacist who allegedly destroyed hundreds of coronavirus vaccine doses last month was an “admitted conspiracy theorist” and believed in a baseless rumour about their safety, authorities have said. Steven Brandenburg removed 57 vials of the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine, each containing around 10 doses, from refrigerators at the Aurora Medical Center in Grafton, Wisconsin, in an attempt to destroy them because he believed — wrongly — that they were dangerous and could alter human DNA. (Photo by Joseph Prezioso / AFP)

NAFDAC approves Moderna, Sputnik, Korean AstraZeneca for coronavirus vaccination

July 16, 2021