National Day For Senior Citizens In Nigeria Feasible, Humanitarian Minister Assures
The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Hajiya Sadiya Umar Farouq has given assurance that a special National day for Senior Citizens in Nigeria is feasible. Accordingly, she says appropriate moves through transmission of an official memo…
Bello Administration and Infrastructural Revolution: Amazing Sights As Inspection Team Visits Kogi East
As part of efforts to ensure strict compliance with standard and timely completion of ongoing infrastructural projects by the Governor Yahaya Bello administration in Kogi State, the inspection team of the State Ministry of Works and Housing led by Commissioner…
China Rejects WHO Plan For Further COVID-19 Origins Probe
China on Friday rejected the World Health Organization’s calls for a renewed probe into the origins of Covid-19, saying it supported “scientific” over “political” efforts to find out how the virus started. Pressure is once more mounting on Beijing to…
Re: National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) Recovered Funds: There Are Billions More To Recover
By Prof. Usman Yusuf I have refrained from saying or writing anything about the NHIS since my exit as the Executive Secretary/CEO on 1st July, 2019. But, since the story about the recovery of the sum of N5.4b NHIS funds…
How Health Insurance Will Check Maternal, Infant Mortality – Okowa
Delta State Governor, Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, has said that health insurance for children, women and the vulnerable was a sure way of checking maternal and infant mortality in the country. Okowa stated this when he received the National Executive…
COVID-19: Gov. Ugwuanyi Inaugurates Steering Committee on Co-PREP
…Reiterates Commitment to Fight Against Pandemic Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State has reiterated his administration’s commitment to adhere to the federal government’s guidelines and International best practices in the fight against Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19). Gov. Ugwuanyi spoke when he…
Prevent spread of new COVID-19 variant, Lagos Assembly tells FG, State Govt
Members of the Lagos State House of Assembly on Thursday called on the federal and the Lagos State governments to ensure proper monitoring of immigrants into the country to prevent the spread of the third wave of COVID-19. This was…
Medical Director, Prof. Saad Ahmed Receives JACCSON Award
The impactful leadership of the Medical Director, Prof. Saad Ahmed has brought yet another huge recognition to him and the hospital last Monday by the Coalition of Civil Society Organisations in Nigeria (JACCSON). During a courtesy call paid to the…
COVID-19: Oyo Govt Vaccinates 90,000 People
The Oyo State Government says 90,000 people have so far received Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines in the state. This was revealed during a sensitization programme on COVID-19 vaccine safety for religious leaders organised by the Interfaith Dialogue Forum for Peace in…
Gombe Settles WAEC Fees for 15, 000 Students as SEC Approves Over N3.5b for General Hospital Projects
Gombe State Executive Council meeting, presided over by Governor Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya has approved the sum of one billion, eight hundred and ninety two million eight hundred and sixty four thousand naira eleven Kobo (1, 892, 276.11) for construction of…
African Development Bank Shareholders Decide on Bank’s Plan to Tackle COVID-19
Shareholders at the African Development Bank www.AfDB.org have shown strong support for the Bank’s proposals to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic, amid possibility of a third wave of infection and poor vaccine access in the continent. This was part of the…
