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- 31 Jul 2026
Gavi Okays $500m for Vaccines, PHCs in Nigeria
Gavi has approved $500 million to strengthen Nigeria’s immunisation programme, primary healthcare services and long-term vaccine financing. The move followed high-level discussions between Professor…
- 11 Mar 2024
Gavi, Seedstars Launch INFUSE 2024 to Foster Climate-resilient Health Systems
Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance in partnership with Seedstars, announces INFUSE 2024 a global call for applications for innovations, to bolster health systems against climate threats and enhance…
- 28 Sept 2018
UBA Foundation, Gavi Launch New Partnership for Africa
Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance and the UBA Foundation, the Corporate Social Responsibility arm of the United Bank for Africa Group, have joined together to strengthen health systems and raise awareness…
- 29 Dec 2015
Nigeria to Lose N7Bn Vaccines Subsidy
Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (GAVI) has resolved to stop a N7 billion vaccines subsidy to Nigeria by 2022, according to Nnamdi Okafor, managing director of May and Baker Plc. Okafor…
- 2 May 2024
Nigeria among Selected Recipients of $12m VaxSocial Initiative Funding to Boost Vaccine Confidence
The VaxSocial Initiative, spearheaded by Global Impact in collaboration with the African Health Organisation (AHO) and Gavi, has announced the selection of seven organizations to receive funding…
- 26 Jun 2025
GSK to Slash Cost of Malaria Jab to Less than $5
The manufacturers of the world’s first malaria vaccine are set to slash the price by more than half by 2028 to less than$5 per dose. The manufacturers of the shot, known as RTS,S, said a phased…
- 10 May 2022
Nigeria in Line to Get World's First Malaria Vaccine
The world's first malaria vaccine may soon be available in Nigeria and across Sub-Saharan Africa. This is coming on the heels of its success in Ghana, Kenya and Malawi. Currently, one million…
- 12 Dec 2021
Europe Ships 1m Near-Expired Doses of COVID-19 Vaccine to Nigeria
As many as 1 million doses of AstraZeneca’s covid-19 vaccine reportedly expired before they could be used in Nigeria, a country of more than 200 million where less than 2% of the population is fully…
- 20 May 2018
Nkemdilim to Speak in South Korea on Africa Innovation
Nkemdilim Begho, Chief Executive Officer of Future Software Resources Limited, will join Heads of African State, Delegations of 80 member countries, international organizations, government…
- 24 Jan 2024
Adoption of technology critical to tackling healthcare challenges in Africa
Leaders from around the world have underscored the critical role of technology adoption in confronting the healthcare challenges that Africa faces. This significant message was prominently featured…
- 28 Oct 2018
Elumelu at TEF Says Entrepreneurship is the Key to Unlocking Economic Development
5,000 African entrepreneurs, private and public sector leaders and the broader entrepreneurship ecosystem convened in Lagos on Thursday, October 25, 2018 for the annual Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF)…
- 15 Apr 2024
History as Nigeria Launches Mew 5-in-1 Meningitis Vaccine
Nigeria has launched the new Men5CV vaccine, which offers protection against five strains of the Neisseria meningitidis bacteria (meningococcus) responsible for meningitis. Nigeria becomes the first…
- 23 Apr 2024
Zipline Achieves One Millionth Delivery Milestone
Zipline, the leading force in drone logistics delivery, has reached a monumental achievement with its one-millionth delivery to customers, signifying a significant leap forward in the logistics…
- 24 Sept 2024
How Zipline is Revolutionizing Nigerian Healthcare and Economic Development With Autonomous Drones
Zipline, the leader in autonomous delivery, is teaming up with the government of Nigeria to transform health access and equity by using drone delivery to improve the country’s infrastructure,…
- 27 Jul 2017
Standard Chartered Hires Okonjo-Iweala, to Pay Her £130,000
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, former minister of finance, has been named an independent non-executive director at Standard Chartered Plc. Standard Chartered Plc is a British multinational banking and…
- 5 Nov 2025
Nigeria, Other African Nations Eye Sin Taxes, Debt Restructuring to Replace Lost Funding
Cash-strapped African nations are looking at imposing sin taxes, restructuring debt and even trying to take a cut of diaspora remittances to replace lost aid funding and prop up their health systems.…
- 15 Feb 2021
All You Need to Know About Four Organisations Supporting Nigeria with COVID Vaccines
The Federal Government of Nigeria has announced its goal to vaccinate 50 percent of the Nigerian population against COVID-19 in 2021. In order to achieve this goal and augment its efforts, it has…
- 6 May 2016
Agency Halts Aids to Nigeria over $3.8m Fraud
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…
- 4 Sept 2012
MSD, Launch Cervical Cancer Vaccination Programme
The Republic of Uganda through the Ministry of Health (MoH), supported by MSD known as Merck in the United States and Canada, this morning announced the launch of a national vaccination programme…