COVID-19

Babajide Okeowo A leading conglomerate, BUA, and the private sector-led Coalition Against COVID-19 (CACOVID) are at each other’s throats over the purchase of one million doses of Covid-19 vaccine for Nigeria. BUA had claimed in a…

Nigeria’s health minister, Osagie Ehanire, said on Monday that the country will receive additional 42 million doses of the approved COVID-19 vaccines in addition to the 16 million initially expected. Nigeria is expected to receive an…

The COVAX initiative for equitable global access to Covid-19 vaccines has announced its plan to distribute more than 330 million doses to developing nations in the first half of 2021. In an interim distribution plan published…

Anambra State Governor, Willie Obiano, has ordered for the closure of the Agbaedo Nnewi New Motor Spare Parts Market for one week over non-compliance with COVID-19 protocols. The order was contained in a statement signed by the state…

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has disqualified Nigeria in the first round of supply of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. Matshidiso Moeti, WHO regional director for Africa, said Nigeria was disqualified based on certain criteria including…

Becky Damilola Oke, a construction engineer is the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Bstan Group, an Abuja-based real estate development firm. Beyond providing shelter through her company, her company employed over 120…

Pascal Oparada On Tik-Tok, the video-sharing social media platform, there is a vaccine challenge. Users are asked to post their coronavirus vaccine reactions after getting a jab. The users would jerk intermittently in the middle of…

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) said it has found six more cases of the B.1.1.7 COVID-19 variant in the country. This is the same variant currently causing anxiety in the United Kingdom and other parts of the world. The…

ith rising cases of COVID-19 in Nigeria, there are fears that vaccines of unclear origins may have hit the country’s market after a Twitter user claimed to have taken supplies for sale at N50,000 per dose. As Nigeria battles the second…

An Italian doctor accused of murdering two patients on a coronavirus ward at the height of the pandemic 'to free up beds' has been arrested. Carlo Mosca, 47, administered lethal doses of anaesthetics to 61-year-old Natale Bassi and…