The initiative by the United Nations in collaboration with some development partners to complement Nigeria’s COVID-19 economic recovery efforts under the Nigerian Economic Sustainability Plan (ESP) is a fitting acknowledgment of the country’s effort in addressing the disruptions caused by the pandemic, according to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo. This was disclosed in a statement by ...

The Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, has advanced reasons why the Federal Medical Center (FMC), Lokoja, remained closed four months after the facility was attacked by some armed thugs. Responding to a question at the Presidential Task Force (PTF) media briefing on COVID-19, on Tuesday in Abuja, Ehanire said Governor Yahaya Bello still has ...

The Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, has directed all Federal Tertiary Hospitals to treat casualties of civil unrests arriving their hospitals without any delay. Ehanire gave the directive in a statement signed by the Permanent Secretary of the ministry, Mr. Abdullaziz  Abdullahi on Thursday in Abuja. According to the Permanent Secretary, the minister considered ...

The Federal Government has received the samples of Russia’s COVID-19 vaccine. Russia’s Ambassador to Nigeria, Alexey Shebarshin gave the samples of the vaccine to the Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire during a visit to the Ministry in Abuja on Friday. The Russian Ambassador also handed over to the Minister an aide memoire which gives ...

The Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire, on Tuesday, said strategies are already in place to ensure the country stays polio-free. Nigeria, along with the rest of Africa, was declared polio-free by the World Health Organisation on Tuesday, marking the eradication of a second virus from the continent, since smallpox 40 years ago. “The chances of ...

Nigeria is working with the World Health Organisation to finalise enrollment with ACT Accelerator, a global mechanism tracking and sponsoring research organisations working on COVID-19 vaccine development. Minister of Health Dr Osagie Ehanire disclosed this on Thursday during a briefing by the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19. “We are also interested in the COVAX facility, ...

The Buhari administration is making progress tackling the problem of malnutrition in the country through the implementation of various intervention programmes, and increased funding, according to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN. Osinbajo’s spokesman, Laolu Akande, in a statement in Abuja, said the vice president spoke  on Tuesday at the 2020 Virtual Conference on Nutrition in ...

The Federal Government has approved the sum of N8.49billion for the procurement of test kits by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) at the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting on Wednesday. The meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari approved N8.49billion for the procurement of 12 items in various quantities for the testing of ...

U.S Ambassador Mary Beth Leonard officially handed over 200 brand-new, leading edge ventilators to the Nigerian Minister of Health Dr. Osagie Ehanire to support the government’s efforts against the COVID-19 pandemic at an August 11, 2020 ceremony at the Abuja Premier Medical Warehouse.  The United States, U.S, Government has handed over 200 modern ventilators to ...

Dr Sani Aliyu, the Coordinator, Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19, has said that positive cases of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) gradually coming down as the daily results now revolves around 400. He made this known at the daily briefing of the PTF on Monday in Abuja, warning, however, that the reduction was not in a ...