COVID-19

Mr Wike in March 2020 shut down all markets in the state to reduce the spread of COVID-19. He later reopened all the markets except the Oil Mill and the Oginigba Slaughter markets. Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has ordered the re-opening of the Oil Mill market, more than a year after the market was shut down amidst the COVID-19 in March 2020. The governor’s directive...

In this concluding part of the investigation on COVID-19 vaccine and its cold chain movement, JULIANA FRANCIS looks at challenges confronting health workers in the movement of the vaccine to rural communities in Nigeria Bayelsa State There are 93 PHCs in the eight local government areas of Bayelsa State. The state is mostly surrounded by water. Indeed, this is one of the challenges vaccinators will face...

Last two weeks we brought you the first part of the report on the acceptance of Covid 19 vaccine in the three Senatorial zones of Enugu State. In this concluding part Correspondent Chinelo Phil-Opara reports that despite the conspiracy theories about the vaccine: which include Covid 19 virus being nonexistent, the vaccine causing death and denaturing the human system, some communities have become more...

In this special report, Correspondent Chinelo Phil-Opara who monitored the acceptance of Covid 19 Vaccine in the three Senatorial zones of Enugu State reports that conspiracy theories of the vaccine which include, not being in existence, leading to death and denaturing the human system; are still rife in rural areas, where most residents are yet to be convinced to go for the jab.

In this global pandemic era, health workers, as the apex frontline workers, are supposed to be first vaccinated with the AstraZeneca vaccine against COVID-19. JULIANA FRANCIS, in this report, discovered that some health workers, who are expected to vaccinate others, are hesitant to be vaccinated. There is anxiety that this hesitancy may affect the target of nationwide vaccination in Nigeria • I have fertility problem,...