Nigeria, Nov. 14 -- Nigeria's Minister of State for Health, Iziaq Salako, has said the country is not yet capable of locally producing vaccines for use.

Mr Salako, a medical doctor, spoke on Thursday night when he appeared as a guest on Channels TV's Politics Today.

Seun Okinbaloye, the programme anchor asked the minister if Nigeria could produce vaccines now.

"Unfortunately, not," he responded

The minister, however, said Nigeria under President Bola Tinubu administration was currently working hard to promote local vaccine production in the country.

Mr Salako stressed that producing vaccines requires careful economic and technical consideration, explaining that local production, for instance, must be economically viable.

"It is not ...