Nigeria gets N18.6b vaccine loan from Japan

Nigeria has gotten a loan facility of N18.6 billion worth of vaccines from Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). The vaccines are to be procured through the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).
The loan would be paid in 20 years, with a grace period of seven years.
Nigeria’s JICA Country Chief, Tetsuo Seki, disclosed this while presenting evidence of the loan’s release to the Executive Director of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), Ado Muhammad, in his office in Abuja, on Friday.