National News

TWO Nigerian-Americans, Oyekunle Olukotun and Oluwole Soboyejo, have been elected to the prestigious National Academy of Engineering in the United States.

The Director-General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, says the Astrazeneca vaccine recently inaugurated and distributed to states to treat COVID-19 has no side effect.

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari, on Thursday, inaugurated the headquarters building of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), 25 years after the groundbreaking ceremony.

NIGERIAN payments startup, Flutterwave, has closed a $170m Series C funding round, the largest amount ever secured by an African tech startup and one that gives it “unicorn” status with a value of over $1bn.

THE U-17 Africa Cup of Nations has been cancelled by the Confederation of African Football only five days before the tournament was set to kick-off, amidst ongoing concerns about the coronavirus pandemic in host country Morocco and beyond.

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control has cleared the AstraZeneca vaccine which arrived in Nigeria on Tuesday for usage in the country.

NIGERIA on Tuesday received 3.94 million doses of the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine, manufactured by the Serum Institute of India(SII) and shipped via the COVAX Facility.

Nigeria is scheduled to take delivery of 3.92 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesday, March 2, 2021.