Nigeria has spent $298 million on procurement of 29 million doses of the Johnson and Johnson jab. Besides, 14,093,873 eligible persons have received the first dose of Covid-19 vaccine, while 5,252,406 eligible Nigerians have been fully vaccinated as at January 25, 2022. Also, National Primary Healthcare Development Agency (NPHCDA) is integrating childhood immunisation and other medicare in the current phase of Covid-19 mass vaccination. Speaking at the Covid-19 vaccination update Tuesday in Abuja, NPHCDA’s Executive Director (ED)/chief executive, Faisal Shuaib, linked emergence of the various variants to the large proportion of the eligible population yet to be vaccinated, thus giving…

A federal high court in Abuja has declared that the direct deduction of funds from the federation account to fund the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) is illegal. In a judgment delivered on Wednesday, Ahmed Mohammed, the presiding judge, held that the provisions of section 4(1)(a) (b) of the Police Trust Fund Act 2019, requiring the deduction of 0.05 percent of any funds in the federation account and 0.005 percent of the net profit of companies operating in Nigeria to fund the police are unconstitutional. Mohammed said the provisions are contrary to the provisions of section 162(1) (3) of the constitution,…