By Victor Emeruwa The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) alongside governments and private sector have announced new funding commitments totaling $1.27 billion which will aim to accelerate the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals, (SDGs) and save millions of lives. During United Nations General Assembly week, the Bill & ...
By Elohor Igbru, Abuja The National Primary Healthcare Development Agency, NPHCDA has said majority of Nigerians did not have access to health services. It made this known on its website ahead of the Primary Healthcare Summit tagged: ‘Re-imaging Primary Health Care in Nigeria’. According to the agency, the country is ...
By Victor Emeruwa Food manufacturers in Nigeria are asking the Federal Government for a duty waiver on the importation of essential nutrients used in the fortification of staple foods in the country. This concession will ensure that Nigerians continue to get essential nutrients in their staple diet required for the ...
By Our Reporter Stakeholders and groups all over the world have gone extra miles in ensuring that the Covid-19 virus is contained.This is as Bill & Melinda Gates foundation pledged US$150 million, so also Wellcome making a total of US$300 million towards COVID-19 vaccine production. The pledge was made to ...
By InfactNG The Wall Street Journal is reporting that former President of Microsoft and co-chair, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation ( BMGF) Bill Gates had sent incriminating and flirtatious emails to a female employee, asking her to meet him outside of work. InfactNG cannot independently verify if the said meeting ...
By Elohor Igbru, Abuja Nigeria and other lower-income countries will stand to benefit as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced today a commitment of up to $120 million to accelerate access to the investigational antiviral drug molnupiravir for lower-income countries as part of its COVID-19 response effort. According to the Foundation ...
A new Country Director arrived at the Abuja office of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) in January 2021. He is Dr. Jeremie Zoungrana,a health sociologist and programme management specialist with over 20 years’ experience. Having worked across Africa, the new CD has hiswork cut out for him in ...
From Eloho Igbru An additional 31 million people have fallen into extreme poverty, that is they live under one dollar per day in 2020 due to the effects of COVID -19 on the world economy, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) Goalkeepers report has said. The report released today ...
Dr. Jeremie Zoungrana joined the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation as Director, Nigeria office in January 2021. He is a health sociologist and program management specialist and brings more than two decades of leadership and experience managing complex, large-scale family planning; reproductive health; maternal, newborn and child health; HIV; and ...
By Infactng One of the world's richest men, Bill Gates and his long-time wife Melinda Gates have announced their divorce. The Microsoft co-founder and his wife, who launched the world’s largest charitable foundation, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation ( BMGF) which works across the world to end poverty and ...
