Properly engaged and monitored, Nigeria’s private sector can do more in COVID vaccination exercise.
Nigerian Academy of Science
The Nigerian Academy of Science was inaugurated on 8th of January 1977 by an initial group of forty-five Foundation Fellows comprising distinguished scientists in the pure and applied sciences.
The Academy has since grown in membership and diversity into the highest scientific honor society in Nigeria. Since inception, the Academy has operated as a voluntary organization, independent of government control, but collaborating with the government in the growth and development of science and technology in Nigeria.
The Academy is the national member of the following organisations: Inter-Academy Panel (IAP), Inter-Academy Medical Panel (IAMP), the Network of African Science Academies (NASAC), the Inter-Academy Council (IAC), and the International Council for Science (ICSU).
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Nigeria must increase its testing capacity and do more genomic studies to deal effectively with the Delta variant of COVID-19.
Recent developments have shown that Nigeria requires improved surveillance to keep other diseases like Mpox at bay while battling COVID-19.
Experts assess Nigeria’s response to COVID-19 so far and express worry that the country does not appear to have learnt much; it isn’t prepared for the next pandemic.
Less than 30% of researchers worldwide are women. The biases and perceptions that keep women and girls out of STEM must be tackled.
In this video interview, Dr Doyin Odubanjo, Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Academy of Science and a public health expert, talks about keeping safe while celebrating Christmas during COVID-19.
Over nine months into COVID-19 outbreak in Nigeria, there are concerns about how well the country has managed the disease pandemic and how this might affect its handling of other diseases.
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It is important for information on the coronavirus to be put out in a balanced and fair manner.
While testing is central to the fight against COVID-19, there are a myriad of factors to consider, especially by African countries, when taking decisions to curtail the spread of the disease.
What is needed is the calm implementation of a clear and effective strategy.
How to stay safe from the novel coronavirus which has reached Lagos, Nigeria.
Concerned about rising cases and spread of Lassa fever, the Nigerian Academy of Science has called on government to declare it a national health emergency.
Ending the Boko Haram insurgency is the last hurdle in Nigeria’s race against polio
Government funding in Nigeria’s education sector has been chronically low and needs to be changed.
Nigeria’s health systems are overwhelmed and incapable of sustaining high quality disease surveillance, prevention, control and response.
Social media rumours are putting Nigeria’s vaccination campaigns at risk.
A disease suspected to be Mpox is on the rampage in Nigeria. In less than one month, it has spread to seven of the country’s 36 states and infected 31 people.
Lassa outbreaks are becoming more widespread in Nigeria but have not been given national emergency status like Ebola.
African leaders need to up their health allocations to help the new World Health Organisation Director-General meet his health care targets for the continent.
A new polio outbreak in Nigeria has hampered the country’s efforts to be declared polio free by 2017.
