Nigeria, March 6 -- President Muhammadu Buhari will today take his first dose of the newly acquired Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines.

"To increase public confidence in the COVID-19 vaccine roll-out, President Muhammadu Buhari will be vaccinated with the AstraZeneca vaccine Saturday, March 6th, 2021 at the New Banquet Hall, Presidential Villa at 11:30 a.m.", the NPHCDA, the agency at the centre of the vaccination for Nigeria, announced Friday evening.

Nigeria on Tuesday took delivery of nearly four million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine as part of an overall 16 million doses planned to be delivered to the country in batches over the next few months. The vaccines are being provided by COVAX, an unprecedented global e...