The Deputy Governor, Alhaji Baba Tela, said this while receiving the vaccines at the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital, Bauchi.
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The Director Press, Office of the SGF (OSGF), Willie Bassey, said this in a notice on Sunday.
A national daily had on Saturday, in its report, claimed to have sighted a document put together by the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), and presented to the Nigerian Governors’ Forum (NGF), which set the budget for the logistics distribution of vaccines to the states and council areas at N10.6 billion.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the vaccine after undergoing assessment by the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control and the National Primary Health Care Development Agency was confirmed to have positive results.
Executive Director, National Primary Health Care Development Agency, Dr Faisal Shuaib, disclosed this at a State House briefing in Abuja on Thursday.
The ceremony was attended by the Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire; the Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu and Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency, Faisal Shuaib, who organised the ceremony.
The agency disclosed this in a series of messages posted on its Twitter handle, @NphcdaNG, on Monday.
This was made known in a joint statement by the World Health Organisation, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) on Sunday in Abuja.
The Executive Director, NPHCDA, Dr. Faisal Shuaib, made the disclosure at the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 briefing on Monday in Abuja.
Shuaib also said the PTF would ensure an efficient roll out of COVID-19 vaccination in Nigeria.
The Executive Secretary of the agency, Dr. Faisal Shuaib, made the assertion at a national sensitisation programme on COVID-19 vaccines for Muslim scholars and Imams in Nigeria in Wednesday in Abuja.
The Director General of the NOA, Garba Abari, responding to insinuations of possible use of the vaccines as a population control cum DNA altering measure, debunked the idea, stressing that no vaccine will be allowed into Nigeria or administered to Nigerians without thorough testing and approval by relevant Nigerian authorities.
The Executive Director, NPHCDA, Dr. Faisal Shuaib, disclosed this at the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 briefing on Tuesday in Abuja.
Ehanire said this on Tuesday in Abuja during the global launch to eliminate cervical cancer.
This was made known by the Executive Director/CEO of NPHCDA, Dr. Faisal Shuaib while speaking to newsmen on the: “Overview of NPHCDA’s Activities from 2017-2020.”
Dr Faisal Shuaib, the Executive Director, National Primary Healthcare Development Agency, has expressed optimism that Nigeria will be declared polio free by 2020.
A defence witness on Monday told the National Industrial Court sitting in Jos that workers employed under the SURE-P by the National Primary Health Care Development Agency Subsidy Reinvestment, MCH were laid off via text messages across the nation.
The Basic Health Care Provision Fun is the minimum of one per cent of the consolidated Federal Government revenue and contributions from donor grants set aside to fund the basic health need of the citizens.
Dr. Faisal Shuaib, Executive Director, National Primary Health Care Development Agency, disclosed this to newsmen on Monday in Abuja.
He added that the Edo epidemiology team would be working with the NCDC and other relevant agencies to carry out detailed investigation and response to the already confirmed cases.