“Once we have done that, we shall commence the vaccination exercise without further delay.”
A professor of Microbiology, Ikechukwu Okoli, from Nnamdi Azikiwe University, also received N50 million.
The agency also registered 13 additional COVID-19-related deaths as of Monday night.
Airlines from the two countries had been using rapid COVID-19 tests on customers before they were allowed to board flights to Dubai.
Some laboratories use non-medical laboratory scientists or low cadre officials resulting in misdiagnosis.
“The more Nigerians are vaccinated the more we are safe.”
They would be vaccinated at the OSGF during the weekly live joint national briefing of the task force.
“Now therefore, we have to think of how to share the indemnity in terms of if any problem develops.”
The event was captured live in a televised broadcast.
Nigeria flagged off the roll out of the mass inoculation programme at a pomp ceremony in Abuja on Friday.
