{"id":81141,"date":"2026-01-04T11:35:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T11:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=81141"},"modified":"2026-01-04T11:35:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T11:35:13","slug":"minister-fg-vaccinates-millions-of-nigerians-against-measles-yellow-fever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/01\/04\/minister-fg-vaccinates-millions-of-nigerians-against-measles-yellow-fever\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister: FG Vaccinates Millions of Nigerians Against Measles, Yellow Fever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Prof. Muhammad Pate, says the Federal Government has administered over 25 million doses of measles vaccines and 22 million yellow fever vaccinations nationwide, recording major gains in preventive healthcare.<br \/>\nPate disclosed this on Sunday via his official X handle, noting that the figures were achieved under the current administration alongside Africa\u2019s first Mpox vaccine rollout.<br \/>\nHe said five million children had received the pentavalent vaccine, while more than 10 million Nigerians were vaccinated with the tetanus-diphtheria vaccine during the national diphtheria response. According to him, over one million Gavi-funded vaccine doses were also deployed to control meningitis outbreaks in northern Nigeria.<br \/>\nThe minister further announced Nigeria\u2019s entry into malaria vaccination with the rollout of the R21 Matrix-M vaccine in Bayelsa and Kebbi states. He said one million doses were received, including 846,200 from Gavi and 153,800 funded by the Federal Government, with Kebbi targeting over 179,000 children aged five to 15 months.<br \/>\nOn cancer prevention, Pate said more than 14 million girls aged nine to 14 had been vaccinated against Human Papillomavirus (HPV) since the programme\u2019s launch in October 2023, achieving over 90 per cent coverage.<br \/>\nHe added that the Federal Government committed $54 million to the global fight against tuberculosis in 2025 and has approved an additional \u20a668 billion for vaccine financing, reaffirming its commitment to reducing preventable diseases and avoidable deaths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata The Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Prof. Muhammad Pate, says the Federal Government has administered over 25 million doses of measles vaccines and 22 million yellow fever vaccinations nationwide, recording major gains in preventive healthcare. Pate disclosed this on Sunday via his official X handle, noting that the figures [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":81142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81143,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81141\/revisions\/81143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}