GAVI Alliance Donates US$ 21 million To Nigeria to Improve Vaccine Supply Chains
The GAVI Alliance has approved US$ 21 million to help improve vaccine supply chains in Nigeria as part of a partnership aimed at scaling up routine immunisation. The funds will be used by Nigeria’s National Primary Health Care Development Agency to procure vital equipment for storing vaccines and to improve data collection, both of which […]
Dangote Donates $.5m to UNICEF, Plans $8 Billion Refinery in Nigeria
Nigerian Industrialist and Billionaire Philanthropist, Aliko Dangote, has donated the sum of $500,000 to UNICEF in Nigeria, to assist the government to manage the recent measles outbreak in certain states in Nigeria. The funds, according to Jean Gough, UNICEF Chief for Nigeria, will be used to procure 1.7 million doses of measles vaccine. Gough, during the UNICEF’s courtesy visit at which Dangote announced […]