Children would be given two injections with an interval of three weeks.
The World Health Organisation has advised the federal government to use the Pfizer vaccine in cities and the Johnson & Johnson vaccine in rural areas.
Meanwhile people who had previously contracted the virus were also found to have not much difference in terms of levels of protection after they were jabbed.
“Our findings highlight that vaccination of pregnant women may provide maternal and neonatal protection from SARS-CoV-2.”
“The majority of sellers came from France, Germany, the UK, and the USA, and the prices per dose ranged from $250 to $1,200.”
The NPHCDA chief explained that a hundred thousand doses of the Pfizer inoculation to Nigeria would have been “a drop in the ocean.”
The success of the vaccination would be used to provide critical information for use of pharmaceutical companies.
Despite lacking scientific literacy, the Kogi governor also expressed doubts about the speed with which scientists came up with COVID-19 vaccines.
Nigeria remains heavily reliant on handouts from the global COVAX scheme of the World Health Organisation.
Over 100,000 Nigerians have been infected by the highly contagious virus with at least 1,000 deaths nationwide.
