Stakeholders Call for Attitudinal Change, Enforcement of Waste Mgt. Laws
Stakeholders at a waste management meeting on Friday, called for attitudinal change and enforcement of existing sanitation laws to address waste management challenges in Oyo State. They made the call at a Town hall meeting tagged “Beautiful Ibadan City: The…
Reps Mandate 5-Yr Practice For Doctors Before Leaving Nigeria
A bill to prevent Nigeria-trained medical or dental practitioners from being granted full licences until they have worked for a minimum of five years in the country passed second reading at the House of Representatives on Thursday. This is aimed…
Kenya Receives International Recognition For Progress In Community Health Services
Kenya has received international recognition at the 3rd International Community Health Workforce Symposium (CHW Symposium) for its remarkable progress in implementing Community Health Services. The Symposium, which was held in Liberia in March 2023, also produced the Monrovia Declaration, a…
Ekweremadu, Wife, Doctor Found Guilty Of Organ Trafficking
Nigeria’s Deputy President of the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Ike Ekweremadu, his wife, Beatrice, and their doctor, Obinna Obeta have been found guilty of organ trafficking in the first verdict of its kind under the Modern Slavery…
EFCC Operatives Attacked, Injured By Alleged Vote Buyers in Kaduna
Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on election monitoring duty in Kaduna State today, March 18, 2023 came under attack at School Road, Unguwan Rimi Kaduna while attempting to arrest a suspected vote buyer. The team, working…
OYSHIA Launches Community Based Insurance Scheme
The Oyo State Health Insurance Agency, OYSHIA, has begun a robust community Based Health Insurance Scheme (CBHIS) in three communities in the State. The official activation of Community Based Health Insurance and enrollment of Governor ‘Seyi Makinde Adoptees into the…
Again, EFCC Recovers N900m for NHIS As Abebe Bags 7-Year Jail Term
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has recovered an additional sum of N900,000,000 (Nine Hundred Million Naira) for the National Health Insurance Scheme, NHIS. This is even as John Warimeme Abebe to seven years imprisonment for forgery before Justice…
Forced Abortion Saga: US Lawmakers Ask Biden To Revoke Helicopter Sale To Nigeria
On the heels of allegations of a forced abortions against Nigerian authorities, two lawmakers have called on the United States to rescind a nearly $1 billion helicopter sale to Nigeria over renewed concerns on human rights. Congress had delayed the…
Court Okays Kanu’s Request to Apply for Access to Doctors, medical Records
The Abuja division of the Federal High Court has granted an application by the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, to apply for an order of mandamus compelling the Department of State Service (DSS) to…
Okowa Mourns Abia PDP Governorship Candidate, Prof. Ikonne
Governor of Delta and Vice-Presidential Candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Sen. (Dr) Ifeanyi Okowa, has commiserated with the government and people of Abia, Ikonne family and the PDP on the passing of the party’s Governorship Candidate, Prof. Uchenna Ikonne….
Lagos Assembly Adopts Recommendations On Proposed Tertiary Hospitals
Members of the Lagos State House of Assembly on Monday adopted recommendations of its Committee on Health Services for the proposed upgrade of some general hospitals to tertiary health institutions. Five general hospitals may benefit from the planned upgrade with…
