A Patriotic Pursuit of Self-sufficiency in Vaccine Production, by Rahma Olamide Oladosu   President Bola Ahmed Tinubu came to office with a single-minded determination to ramp up local production of goods and services that Nigeria has comparative or competitive advantage in, as part of measures to...

Nigeria Receives MenFive Vaccine from Gavi   Nigeria has become the first country to receive the new MenFive vaccine from the Gavi-funded global stockpile, with a shipment delivered by UNICEF arriving in the country. Doses will be used to respond to an on-going meningococcus C outbreak, targeting...

Nigeria Receives MenFive Vaccine from Gavi   Nigeria has become the first country to receive the new MenFive vaccine from the Gavi-funded global stockpile, with a shipment delivered by UNICEF arriving in the country. Doses will be used to respond to an on-going meningococcus C outbreak, targeting...

Senate Probe Health Ministry On Alleged N5.7bn Donor Funds Mismanagement   The Senate Public Account Committee has summoned senior management staff of the Ministry of Health to appear before it in order to explain how they managed the N5.7 billion grant from an international donor agency. Our...

WTO: European Parliament Backs Okonjo-Iweala       The European Parliament (EP) has endorsed Nigeria’s candidate for the position of the Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. The parliament said it screened the two remaining candidates in the WTO DG race, Okonjo-Iweala and Ms. Yoo...

The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has suspended payments to Nigeria’s AIDS agency over evidence that $3.8 million was stolen by its workers and consultants, the Geneva-based agency said yesterday. Fund spokesman, Seth Faison, said Nigeria’s government had promised to repay the...