Nuli, Nigeria’s leading healthy food restaurant chain and natural juice brand, and Veggie Victory, Nigeria’s first vegan food company, have formed a ground-breaking partnership by launching a 100% plant-based meat
Deji Elumoye Nigerian state governors want the federal government to expedite actions on local production of Covid-19 vaccine instead of relying on foreign pharmaceutical firms. The governors are also not
Plans are being made for the Nigerian President Muhammadu and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo to receive the COVID-19 vaccine on live television, Faisal Shuaib, executive director and chief executive officer, National Primary
Over 600 journalists have died worldwide due to the Covid-19 pandemic, a new report by the Press Emblem Campaign (PEC) has shown. The Swiss-based organisation which calls for journalists to
A Nigerian professor of virology, Sunday Omilabu, has advised the Nigerian government that only citizens with a low-level of immunity to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, be administered a
As Nigeria prepares to take delivery of Covid-19 vaccines by the end of January, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced Tuesday that it has authorised the vaccine made by Pfizer
A World Health Organization (WHO) team due to investigate the origins of Covid-19 in the city of Wuhan has been denied entry to China. Two members had already set out
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange cannot be extradited to the United States, a British judge ruled on Monday. At a hearing at London’s Old Bailey, Judge Vanessa Baraitser said she could
Dr Sani Aliyu, the National Coordinator of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 has said the first batch of the Covid vaccines will arrive in Nigeria towards the end of
India’s drugs regulator on Sunday gave final approval for the emergency-use of two coronavirus vaccines, one developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University and the other by local company Bharat Biotech
Veteran broadcaster Larry King has tested positive for coronavirus and is being treated at a hospital in Los Angeles, according to US media. Sources close to his family told ABC
Britain will allow people to be given shots of different Covid-19 vaccines on rare occasions, despite a lack of evidence about the extent of immunity offered by mixing doses. In
Britain reactivated emergency hospitals built at the start of the pandemic and shut primary schools in London on Friday to counter the rapid spread of a much more infectious variant
China has approved its first homegrown Covid-19 vaccine for general use, marking the addition of another vaccine in the global fight against the resurgent virus. The two-dose vaccine from state-owned
A Chinese drugmaker says its coronavirus vaccine was found to be 79.3% effective at preventing infection, moving Beijing closer to possibly being able to fulfill its pledge to supply other
A recently elected US lawmaker has died from Covid-19 – the first member of the US Congress to die from the disease. Republican Luke Letlow, 41, had been elected as
Britain has authorized emergency use of a second Covid-19 vaccine, becoming the first country to greenlight an easy-to-handle shot that its developers hope will become the “vaccine for the world.”
The first reported US case of the highly-infectious Covid-19 variant that emerged in the UK has been confirmed in the state of Colorado. The patient, a man in his 20s
Nigeria is not in the driving seat to demand the required number of vaccines the country needs because the country remains in the category of poor countries, a former Lagos state governorship candidate
The United Nations has called on countries of the world to be ready for future health emergencies when the world body commemorated the first International Day of Epidemic Preparedness on Sunday, underscoring the
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