Tag: Osagie Ehanire
Minister directs Tertiary Hospitals to treat casualties of protests without delay
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 ...COVID-19: Russia presents vaccine samples to Nigeria
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 ...Polio vaccination: We’re at about 70% coverage, strategising to expand coverage to 90% – Health Minister
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 working with WHO to secure allocation, access of COVID-19 vaccines – Minister
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, ...Malnutrition: FG, States have invested about N3.8 billion in procuring Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Foods – Osinbajo
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 ...COVID-19: FEC approves N8.4bn for procurement of testing, diagnostic materials for 774 LGAs
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 ...COVID-19: U.S hands over 200 ventilators to Nigeria, lauds country’s efforts at combating spread
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 ...Don’t misinterpret low COVID-19 cases to mean victory – FG warns Nigerians
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 ...Madagascar herb has no real curative properties against COVID-19 – FG
The Federal Government on Thursday declared that the much talked about “Madagascar COVID-19 herb syrup did not show any evidence that it had real curative properties against COVID-19. The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, made the disclosure in Abuja at the 52nd Joint National Briefing of the Presidential Task Force (PTF), on COVID-19. According ...COVID-19: India hands over medicines to Nigeria as FG seeks collaboration on production of vaccine
The Federal Government on Friday solicited the collaboration of the Government of India to produce vaccine against the COVID-19. The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, said this in Abuja at the handing over ceremony of medicines donated by Indian Government to the Federal Republic of Nigeria to aid the fight against COVID-19. Ehanire told ...
