Tag: COVID-19

Buhari receives 2nd dose of COVID-19 vaccine

By Salim Yunusa The President took the shot at the Presidential Villa in Abuja. The second dose is being administered exactly 12 weeks after the first...

30 members lost to COVID-19 – ASUU President

By Salim Yunusa   The President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, Prof Biodun Ogunyemi, on Friday, said COVID-19 killed 30 of his members.   Ogunyemi stated...

Critiquing presidential economic team’s review of Nigerian gloomy indices

By Engr. Shehu Ahmed Presidential Economic Advisory Council (PEAC) has recently sent a review of the Nigerian economy. At the center of the advisory is...

Indian doctors warn against cow dung as COVID cure

Doctors in India are warning against the practice of using cow dung in the belief it will ward off COVID-19, saying there is no...

India Covid: Kumbh Mela pilgrims turn into super-spreaders

When millions of devout Hindus gathered last month in the Himalayan town of Haridwar to participate in the Kumbh Mela festival even as India...

U.S. to share AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine doses with world

 By Salim Yunusa The White House said as many as 16 million AstraZeneca doses could be made available to other countries in the next two...

Contractors protest over unpaid COVID-19 PPE supply in FCT

By Ismail Auwal Over 200 contractors protest over unpaid COVID-19 medical and non-medical supplies to the FCT Administration on Monday. The contractors cried over executing various...

Covid-19: How AstraZeneca lost the vaccine PR war

AstraZeneca’s covid-19 vaccine has rarely been out of the news—and the headlines show no signs of abating. Jacqui Wise explains how miscommunication and politics created a...

As Nigeria lags behind in COVID-19 vaccines rollout, more options should be explored to guide its choices

EDITORIAL Since the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918, otherwise known as the great influenza, the world has never witnessed a pandemic as threatening and...

North Carolina sites halt J&J shots after adverse reactions

North Carolina health officials said on Thursday that they stopped administering Johnson & Johnson doses at a mass vaccination site in Raleigh and at...

Argentina’s president tests positive for COVID after vaccination

By Abba Gwale Argentina’s President Alberto Fernandez, who has been vaccinated against Covid-19, announced late Friday that he had tested positive for the coronavirus. “At the...

35.7% of vaccine administered in Nigeria – NPHCDA

By Ismail Auwal A total of 718,412 Nigerians received the first jab of Covid-19 vaccine in the month of March, representing 35.7% of its total...

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