The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, says the insinuation in certain quarters that Nigeria is going cap in hand seeking donations
The minister made the clarification during an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Wednesday.
“It is not correct that we are going cap in hand relying on donations, vaccines are not like bread that you can go to a shop and buy. “We are not just expecting a large number of doses of the vaccines which the government is paying for, but working toward the development of our home-grown vaccines,’’ he said.
“Don’t forget that Nigeria is the first country in Africa that did the sequencing of this virus a long time ago.
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