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A vaccination campaign against mpox in Nigeria, 2024. Emmanuel Osodi/Anadolu via Getty Images

February 5, 2025

US health funding cuts: what Nigeria stands to lose

Oyewale Tomori, Nigerian Academy of Science

Nigeria needs to step up disease prevention and control and decentralise disease surveillance as the US pulls donor funding.

Meningitis bacteria can cause severe meningitis and generalised infection particularly in children. Getty Images

April 25, 2024

Nigeria is pioneering a new vaccine to fight meningitis ‑ why this matters

Idris Mohammed, Gombe State University

With a new 5-in-1 vaccine, Nigeria hopes to contain the five most important serotypes causing meningitis in the country.

Professor Christian Happi, director of the African Centre of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Diseases, displays one of the most advanced automated acid extractors being used in the laboratory. Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP via Getty Images

October 27, 2020

Nigeria needs innovation and science investment to help control COVID‑19

Christian Happi, Redeemer's University and Ifeyinwa Aniebo, Harvard University

To effectively control COVID-19 and prevent a future pandemic, Nigeria needs to start investing heavily in science research.

An aerial view of a new isolation and treatment centre established by the Lagos State government at the main bowl of the state-owned Stadium. Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP via Getty Images

March 30, 2020

COVID‑19: to test or not to test

Doyin Odubanjo, Nigerian Academy of Science

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.

A National Youth Service Corps member leaves the orientation camp in Kubwa, Abuja, following an order by the Nigerian government to curb the spread of the COVID-19. Kola Sulaimon/AFP via Getty Images

March 26, 2020

The biggest threats to Nigeria managing COVID‑19: panic, politics and indecision

Doyin Odubanjo, Nigerian Academy of Science

What is needed is the calm implementation of a clear and effective strategy.

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