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The private sector-led Coalition Against COVID-19 (CACOVID) has clarified that only the Federal Government, through the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency (NPHCDA) can obtain COVID-19 vaccine for Nigeria in the ongoing fight…

As Nigerians eagerly await its first tranche of Covid-19 vaccines, Industrial goods giant BUA Cement Plc and the Coalition Against COVID-19, CACOVID are currently at loggerhead over the purchase of vaccines. A dispute had erupted between…

The Coalition Against COVID-19, CACOVID has agreed to raise $100 million to procure vaccines for Nigerians, with one million doses of the Vaccines ready for shipment to Nigeria in the next two weeks. Rising on Monday from its weekly…

The Executive Director, National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), Dr Faisal Shuaib, says the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 will take all the necessary steps to overcome supply challenges. Shuaib also said the…

The Senate leadership was locked in discussion with the executive for over two and half hours on Monday over the readiness of the latter to purchase the Covid-19 vaccines which will gulp N377.6 billion over a period of two years. The…

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared Nigeria free of wild polio, following the completion of documentation for the free status. The UN health agency disclosed this on its regional office for Africa in Brazzaville, Congo,…

Heads of agencies, experts in the media industry, colleagues and well-wishers on Friday gathered at the headquarters of the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency (NPHCDA) in Abuja to celebrate its Head of Public Relations Unit,…

Nigeria will soon have a World Health Organisation (WHO) approved reference laboratory, an official has said. The laboratory would be used for, among others, confirmation of tests of epidemic diseases in the country. The Executive…

The Nigerian government is rallying traditional rulers in the north towards achieving a successful immunization programme in that part of the country. The effort is aimed at eradicating child killer diseases and also boosting the primary…

The Senate has directed its joint committee on primary healthcare and communicable diseases and the health committee to wade into the crisis of confidence and corruption in the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) and that of the…