COVID-19 Vaccination: PSC plans booster doses to boost immunization
Nov. 16, 2021 The Presidential Steering Committee (PSC ) on COVID-19, says efforts are continuing to introduce booster doses in the vaccination programme to build a healthy level of anti-bodies….
COVID-19: LASG LAUNCHES ‘COUNT ME IN’ AMBTIOUS MASS VACCINATION PROGRAMME, TARGETS 4 MILLION LAGOSIANS BEFORE YEAR END
Oct. 28, 2021 Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has launched a mass vaccination campaign as part of the strategies to stave off re-emergence of the viral infection. The objective of the exercise…
Population immunity behind Nigerian vaccine mandate for civil servants
 The quest for population immunity is the underlying reason for the vaccine mandate Nigeria rolled out on 13 October for federal civil servants to increase the number of persons immunised…
UK recognises vaccines certificates with valid QR codes from NPHCDA, relaxes travel rules for fully vaccinated Nigerians
Oct. 8, 2021 The United Kingdom has reviewed its travel protocols for travellers from Nigeria who have taken their complete jabs of the COVID-19 vaccines approved by authorities in the…
FG outlines measures for COVID-19 Pandemic Recovery and Reconstruction; challenges media to begin process
Oct. 7, 2021 The Federal Government has outlined some of the measures being implemented for COVID-19 Pandemic Recovery and Reconstruction in the country, after taking steps to contain the spread…
NPHCDA clarifies issue on acceptance of Nigeria vaccine card, says UK working on validation process
Oct. 7, 2021 The National Primary Healthcare Development Agency (NPHCDA), has clarified the issue of the United Kingdom not accepting the country’s vaccination and subjecting Nigerians to compulsory quarantine. The…
FG to take vaccination exercise to places of worship
Sept. 15, 2021 The Federal Government says it is introducing Sunday vaccination to ensure members of the Christian community who may not have had access to the vaccine have an…
120 outbreaks of vaccine-derived polio reported in Nigeria
Sept. 6, 2021 The Representative of the United Nation’s Children Fund (UNICEF) in Nigeria, Dr. Peter Hawkins, has said that a massive outbreak of vaccine-derived polio has been reported in…
COVID-19: Over 1.4 m eligible Nigerians have received 2 doses – NPHCDA
Sept. 1, 2021 The National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) has disclosed that so far 2, 897, 201 eligible persons have been vaccinated, while 1,430, 379 have received 2…
Governors pledge to mediate in doctors’ strike
Aug. 27, 2021 The Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) has resolved to take a mediatory role to resolve the ongoing strike by the Nigeria Association of Resident Doctors (NARD). The forum…