Browsing: Osagie Ehanire

Giving this charge at the South-South zonal town hall meeting on COVID-19 in Edo state, Dr. Ehanire told elders across the country to endorse COVID-19 vaccination and encourage citizens to get vaccinated.

Ehanire, represented by Dr Salma Anas, Director, Family Health, gave the commendation at the Reaching and Empowering Adolescents to make Informed Choices for Their Health in Nigeria (REACH) close out event organised by SCI in Abuja.

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, made the announcement on Monday when he featured on ‘Good Morning Nigeria’, a live programme of the Nigerian Television Authority.

The Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, stated this to newsmen on Thursday, in Abuja, adding that the association was using the anxiety surrounding the third wave of COVID-19 to push its demands.

The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, announced this when he briefed State House correspondents on the outcome of the Council meeting chaired by President Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja on Wednesday.

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo (SAN) made the submission on Monday at the opening of a one-day capacity building workshop for negotiators of international economic agreements, jointly organized by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission and Inter-Agency Committee on Stopping Illicit Financial Flows from Nigeria

The Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, said this at a meeting of the Presidential Committee on Salaries, relevant Federal Government stakeholders, Health Sector Professional Associations and Trade Unions on Tuesday in Abuja

The decision was announced by the Presidential Steering Committee on COVID-19 at a news briefing in Abuja on Monday

Ehanire noted that the country required more than N350 billion to fight the disease in 2021 alone.

Chairman of the committee, Sen. Ibrahim Oloriegbe, issued the summons on Monday at a public hearing on “The need to regulate the manufacturing, importation and use of syringes and needles to protect the lives and safety of Nigerians as well as the economy of the country.”

The ministry also dispelled any possibility of COVID-19 vaccines being available for sale or being administered by any unauthorised institution in the country.

Mustapha, who is also the Chairman, Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, made the disclosure on Saturday in Abuja while evaluating the country’s fight against the disease

On Tuesday, Ghana became the first African country to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine from COVAX.

The Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, stated this at the PTF national briefing on Monday in Abuja.

Speaking at the national briefing on COVID-19 in Abuja, the Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, said that 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.

He disclosed this in a statement on Thursday in Abuja to mark the World Cancer Day, annually marked on February 4 to raise awareness on cancer and to encourage its prevention, early detection and treatment.

The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, made the disclosure at the Presidential Task Force (PTF) COVID-19 briefing on Monday in Abuja.

The Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire, made this disclosure when he appeared before the Senate leadership with his counterpart in the Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed.

The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, who stated this at the COVID-19 briefing on Thursday in Abuja, said the first set of beneficiaries would be health workers who were exposed to the risk of infection on daily basis.

Ehanire will speak alongside other experts at a two-day workshop organised by the Association of Nigerian Health Journalists, with the theme: “COVID-19 Reportage Assessment Meeting.”