Philanthropist, Bill Gates, has highlighted the challenges associated with local vaccine production in Nigeria, citing regulatory complexities and economic scale as significant barriers.
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“Nigeria today has the second-highest rate of food insecurity on earth, and climate change is only accelerating the problem,” Gates remarked. “Arable land has disappeared. Pests have wiped out harvests. And prices for staple foods have soared. Climate-related losses on many African farms are more than double those seen globally. The poorest farmers are the ones hit hardest, having to cope with more droughts, pests, and diseases, which in turn exacerbate food shortages and push up food prices.”
Nigeria and Indonesia have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to enhance the palm oil industry, production and market expansion, aiming to reduce reliance on traditional methods and boost smallholder farmers’ income.
Nigeria is facing a significant setback in its family planning efforts as the country struggles to meet its commitment to fund family planning commodities by the end of August 2024, jeopardising its goal of achieving a 27% Modern Contraceptive Prevalence Rate (MCPR) by 2030.
Before Nigeria’s presidential elections last year, legislator Alhassan Doguwa told raucous supporters what would happen to those who did not…
Nigeria, accounting for just 1% of Africa’s confirmed mpox cases, has become the first African country to receive a vaccine shipment outside…
The federal government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Cuba in a bid to enhance regulation of activities in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, biological and other related fields.
The President Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration likes to psychologically anesthetize Nigerians who are grieving from the hurt of its economic…
Nigeria’s northern region is experiencing continuous armed violence and a decline in rainfall as a result of climate change, both…
The government, and here I mean the federal and state governments, must always be truthful and fair to the citizens. They must also make their agencies work. The government must let the government function. In almost all cases, it is the government that makes the government fail because the actors do everything from a prism of personal gain. Service has taken the backseat. Then there is the Nigerian syndrome of “Do you know who I am?”