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During a press conference in Abuja, Professor Mojisola Adeyeye, the NAFDAC Director-General, revealed that the R21 malaria vaccine produced by the Serum Institute of India has received approval from the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC). With this approval, Nigeria has become the second African country to authorize the use of the vaccine, after Ghana. The R21 malaria vaccine is indicated for the prevention of clinical malaria in children aged 5 months to 36 months. Nigeria is expecting to receive at least 100,000 doses...

A new controversy is emerging following a media investigation that has indicated that the results uploaded on the INEC Results Viewing Portal (IREV) showed that the Labour Party (LP) candidate, Peter Obi, may have emerged as the winner of the presidential election held on February 25 in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area, Rivers State, located in the South-South region of Nigeria. According to the report by PREMIUM TIMES, it is suggested that Obi received more votes than Asiwaju Bola Tinubu in the area, implying that the LP candidate won the election, faulting the result announced by the INEC. It was recalled that the INEC official result announced in Obio/Akpor LG, indicated that Tinubu had 80, 239 votes, while Obi had...