TETFund Sponsored COVID-19 Vaccine Ready For Trial November   The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) sponsored COVID-19 vaccine project would undergo its first clinical trial in November. The project, which was a mega research grant intervention tagged: ‘Accelerated Development of COVID-19 vaccines using innovative technological approach’ was...

Nigeria on the Verge of COVID-19 Vaccine Breakthrough, by Rahma Olamide Oladosu   Two years after the global outbreak of Coronavirus, popularly known as COVID-19, Nigeria’s food and drug regulatory agency, the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) finally got certification for the...

Nigeria To Come Up With Own COVID-19 Vaccine Soon - Buhari   President Muhammadu Buhari has said that his government is working silently to produce vaccines for Nigerians as part of the Covid-19 response plan. He made the statement in an interview with NTA at the State...

COVID-19 Vaccine: Nigeria Misses Out As W/Bank Gives $4bn To Ghana, 50 others     The World Bank has stated that it has spent over $4bn financing to curtail the COVID-19 pandemic in Ghana, Benin and 49 other countries. This was contained in a press statement released on...

Service Chiefs Delaying Defence, Vaccine Supplementary Spending – FG       The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, on Wednesday gave an indication that the Federal Government would spend N296bn on COVID-19 vaccinations in 2021 and 2022. She also confirmed that the supplementary budget for...

Oil Tumbles To $60 On Concerns Over Vaccine Rollouts       The international oil benchmark, Brent crude, fell more than six per cent on Tuesday, tumbling as concerns over new pandemic curbs and slow vaccine rollouts in Europe compounded additional crude volumes. Brent, against which Nigeria’s crude oil...