BUA Group, one of Africa’s largest conglomerates has paid for one million doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines for Nigeria through the African Export-Import Bank (Afrexim) vaccine programme. The purchase was made in partnership with the Coalition Against COVID-19 (CACOVID), a private-sector task force collaborating with the Nigerian government, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and the World Health Organization (WHO) to combat COVID in Nigeria. These doses of the vaccine, which should be delivered by next week, will be the first delivery of vaccines to Nigeria since the COVID-19 shots became...