February 15, 2021

Nigeria’s Presidential Taskforce on COVID-19 on Monday disclosed that the country is set to take delivery of 1.4 million doses of vaccines which were paid for by MTN.

The Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, disclosed this to newsmen when he was speaking at the national briefing on COVID-19 in Abuja. According to him,  the first part of the 1.4 million doses would be delivered by end of February, while the remaining would be delivered by end of March  2021.

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Speaking further: ‘The Ministry of Health also engaged The Africa Vaccine Acquisition Task …

The Minister of State for Petroleum, Mr. Timipre Sylva, on Monday, declared that Nigeria will not be left out as the global community works towards achieving a complete elimination of gas flaring by 2025.

The minister stated this at a public hearing on ‘Need to End Gas Flaring in Nigeria and Harness Associated Gas in Nigeria’ which was organized by the House of Representatives Joint Committee on Gas Resources, Environment, and Climate Change.

This is coming at a time the house of Reps is saying that Nigeria loses over $750 million in revenue from flared gas annually.

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The UN has revealed that health workers in eastern DR Congo have begun an Ebola vaccination drive in key flashpoints of the country after four cases were reported of which two of them fatal.

The World Health Organization (WHO) in a tweet on Monday said; ‘The authorities today… launched an anti-Ebola vaccination campaign in Butembo just a week after the virus re-emerged”.

It also added that; ‘Workers at Matanda hospital, where the first positive case of Ebola was treated, were the first to be vaccinated’.

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Zimbabwe on Monday. received its first batch of COVID-19 vaccine from China. Reports say the vaccines landed at Robert Mugabe International Airport.

About 200,000 doses of Sinopharm vaccines from the Asian Giants were received by the country’s Vice President, Constantino Chiwenga, who also doubles as the health minister and Chinese Ambassador to Zimbabwe Guo Shaochun.

The first batch of the vaccine would be used on frontline health workers firstly and excesses would be extended to vulnerable classes in the society such as the elderly and those with underlying medical conditions according to the country’s vaccine deployment strategy.

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The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) on Monday clarified reports that it sacked 48 of its workers.

Reports had emerged that the agency sacked 48 workers one year after recruitment.

Reacting, Mr Manzo Ezekiel, head of the agency’s Media and Public Relations Unit, in a statement, said that the agency only correctly nullified a questionable and hurriedly arranged recruitment.

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‘Contrary to the allegations in these publications, the agency did not sack any staff, rather, the management of the agency only correctly nullified a questionable and hurriedly