The minister said his ministry had also made significant achievements in food processing and equipment fabrication to boost food production.
Mr Mamora explained that the tax is an effective public health control measure against behavioural risk factors.
It is wrong that the National Assembly’s budget is higher than that of education and health budgets combined.
President Muhammadu Buhari has arrived in Madrid on a state visit at the invitation of Spain’s President Pedro Sanchez.
A vial of anti-snake venom serum which used to cost between N23,000 and N25,000 now costs more than N45,000.
The Minister of State for Health, Olorunnimbe Mamora, says snakes kill 2,000 Nigerians annually.
The Minister of State for health, Olorunnimbe Mamora, says it is wrong timing for Nigerian doctors to be on strike during a pandemic.
“So we felt that it was proper for us in the circumstance to ensure that those who have been vaccinated have been fully vaccinated.”
Nigeria remains heavily reliant on handouts from the global COVAX scheme of the World Health Organisation.
“It’s like a super spreader event which we don’t like,” the minister said.
