Health

Ebuka Daniel The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) and Standard Chartered On Thursday announced an agreement for Standard Chartered to provide $200m of not-for-profit funding towards Afreximbank’s structured framework to help finance the acquisition of COVID-19 vaccines for African nations. The collaboration between Standard Chartered and Afreximbank will help ensure that …

Oluwasina Phillip The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, has given approval for the use of Moderna and AstraZeneca (Korea) vaccines and conditional approval for Sputnik V vaccine in Nigeria. This follows several controversies around the safety of the vaccines as countries report cases of deaths …

Ololade Omosan-Agie The Trade Union Congress of Nigeria has faulted the new provision for fuel importation in the Petroleum Industry Bill, stating that it will serve the interest of few individuals. The Senate had introduced a new provision in the bill (sub-section 8 of section 317) which states that Nigerian …

Ebuka Daniel The Federal Government has disclosed plans to begin the second phase of the covid-19 vaccination program across the country. This was announced by the Executive Director of the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency, Faisal Shuaib during a press briefing in Abuja on Tuesday. According to him, the country …

Ololade Omosan-Agie The Federal Capital Territory Administration has disclosed plans to provide free portable water through water tankers from the FCT Water Board to communities affected by Cholera disease. This was contained in statement signed by the Senior Special Assistant (Media) to FCT Minister, Abubakar Sani on Friday. There had …

Ololade Omosan Agie The United Children Fund, UNICEF has signed an agreement with Janssen Pharmaceutica NV to supply up to 220 million doses of the J&J single-dose vaccine for Nigeria, and other 54 member States of the African Union (AU) by the end of 2022. The UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore in …

Greece’s economy would not close again because of the coronavirus pandemic if it was just to protect an unvaccinated minority, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said in a newspaper interview released on Sunday. Greece has fared well in the first wave of the COVID-19 last year. But a resurgence in COVID-19 …

Aid agencies have distributed a strawberry-flavoured tablet for children living with HIV in six African countries, the first generic pediatric version of a key anti-retroviral, global health agency UNITAID said on Sunday. UNITAID and Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) funding procured 100,000 packs of the dolutegravir formulation across Nigeria, Malawi, …

China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi urged the international community on Saturday to build a “Great Wall of Immunity” to battle the COVID-19 pandemic. “We should face the imminent challenges together,” Wang, who is also a member of the State Council, or cabinet, told the 9th World Peace Forum held at …

Oluwasina Phillip As nations run short of COVID-19 vaccine supply, the Federal government has assured that it is taking advantage of the lessons learnt from the pandemic to build up capacity for vaccine manufacturing. The Minister of State for Health, Olorunnimbe Mamora, disclosed this at a virtual conference organised by …