OSINBAJO CALLS FOR US-AFRICA RELATIONS BASED ON FAIRNESS, PARTNERSHIP THAT BRINGS ABOUT ECONOMIC PROSPERITY
April 20, 2021 A reviewed partnership between Africa and the United States should be one that helps to improve human security, to avert pandemics, or indeed to tackle the crises…
Africa CDC says cannot predict when second COVID-19 shots will arrive
April 16, 2021 Many Africans who have received their first COVID-19 vaccine do not know when they will get a second shot because deliveries are delayed, the continent’s top public…
Covax seeks additional $2b donations to reserve COVID-19 vaccines
April 16, 2021 The Covax scheme launched a push for an extra $2 billion in donations on Thursday, saying it needed the money in advance to reserve Covid-19 vaccine doses….
Less Than 2% Of World’s COVID-19 Vaccines Administered In Africa – WHO
April 8, 2021 Less than 2% of the 690 million COVID-19 vaccine doses administered to date globally have been in Africa, where most countries received vaccines only five weeks ago…
IMF urges sub-Saharan Africa to domestically increase tax revenues, others
April 8, 2021 The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has urged countries in Sub-Saharan Africa to do more domestically to increase tax revenues and improve the quality of spending. Ms Kristalina…
COVID-19: Nigeria hopes to get 70 million J&J vaccines through AU
Nigeria hopes to receive up to 70 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine this year through the African Union (AU), its primary healthcare chief told Reuters, amid…
The world should be back to normal by end-2022 due to vaccines – Bill Gates
The world should be back to normal by the end of 2022 thanks to COVID-19 vaccines, Bill Gates said in an interview for Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza and television broadcaster…
Two senior African journalists, Iyanda and Kokutse, share COVID-19 vaccination experience
Two senior African journalists Olumide Iyanda from Nigeria and Francis Kokutse from Ghana have shared their experience of getting the COVID-19 vaccine in their respective countries. They both spoke on…
COVID-19: Gov. Abiodun Gets Vaccinated As Ogun Becomes First State to Receive AstraZeneca Vaccine Doses
The Ogun State government has taken delivery of an initial set of 50,000 doses of the first batch of the AstraZeneca vaccine. Governor Dapo Abiodun received the vaccines on Monday…
Buhari, Osinbajo show leadership, receive COVID-19 vaccination on live TV
President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo  kept to their promise as they on Saturday, at the State House, Abuja received vaccination for the Coronavirus (COVID-19). The president’s chief physician,…