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The French national health regulator "Haute Autorité de Santé" recommends a booster dose of the COVID-19 vaccine for people over the age of 65 and those with existing health conditions, which was previously announced by Health minister Olivier Véran yesterday. The booster doses will be administered beginning at the end of October.
2021-08-24

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett says that around 100,000 teenagers have received a dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
2021-07-4

Dozens of protesters in the Nigerian cities of Lagos and Abuja are arrested or injured after police fired tear gas at the crowds. The protests, coinciding with a public holiday marking Nigeria's transition to democracy, were organized to protest President Muhammadu Buhari's Twitter ban and numerous other issues plaguing his administration, with protestors calling for his resignation.
2021-06-12

Nigerian Information Minister Lai Mohammed announces that the government is indefinitely suspending Twitter's operations in the country, saying that the social media service is being used for "activities that are capable of undermining Nigeria’s corporate existence". The move comes two days after President Muhammadu Buhari was temporarily suspended from Twitter for posting an inflammatory tweet directed at groups believed to be responsible for attacking government buildings in recent weeks.
2021-06-4

Venezuela receives more than 115,000 doses of the EpiVacCorona vaccine as part of trials of the Russian vaccine candidate.
2021-03-30

President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo receive their first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine.
2021-03-6

Mongolia approves the emergency use of Russia's Sputnik V vaccine.
2021-02-9

The government signs a deal with Pfizer and BioNTech to buy an additional 12.2 million doses of the tozinameran vaccine.
2021-01-11

Nigerian voters elect Muhammadu Buhari (who previously ruled as a military dictator in 1983-1985) of the All Progressives Congress as the next President of Nigeria.
2015-03-31

Opposition parties in Nigeria raise their concerns over "missing" President Umaru Yar'Adua who has been at a hospital in Saudi Arabia for six weeks.
2010-01-5