No one expected the painful jabs from 2022. At best, many only looked forward to the Covid-19 vaccine shots.
Interestingly, the latest data from the World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that 92 million vaccines have been administered in Nigeria, with only 51 million people fully vaccinated (26% of the total population). That's a far cry from late 2021 when only eight million Nigerians had been partially vaccinated. Still, this is nowhere near countries like the US and the UK, where over 60% of their population is fully vaccinated.
Key takeaways:
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2022 was the year of the war on inflation, marking an end to zero and low-interest rates.
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The price of everything kept rising this year from food to energy, transport, and digital devices.
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Rising inflation has also pushed more people below the poverty line. Today, 93 million Nigerians are poor in monetary terms.
Vaccine inequity aside, several important events took
