NMA’s 65-year retirement demand
The Nigerian Medical Association’s (NMA) renewed call for the Federal Government to implement a 65-year retirement age for clinical health workers deserves urgent attention, not because it offers a complete answer to Nigeria’s medical workforce crisis, but because the country can no longer afford to retire experienced hands while thousands of younger professionals are emigrating. […]
That UN damning report on PINE corruption
AS if further justifying the sack of the former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr David Babachir Lawal, over the scale of alleged corruption in catering for the Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, in the North East, a fresh damning report demands urgent action to bring the alleged profiteers in human misery t
States and unclaimed UBEC funds
IT is a major symptom of the rot in the quality of leadership in the country that many states have failed to provide the counterpart funds required to collect their shares of the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) funds.
Brighter chances for 2018 budget
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari, while presenting the 2018 Budget to the joint session of the National Assembly, NASS, made a crucial confession couched as a promise. He promised to raise the implementation of the 2017 Budget to “about 50 per cent” by the end of December this year.
Tackling Apapa gridlock decisively
IN apparent reaction to the intense media advocacy mounted by Vanguard Newspapers in the past week, the Federal and Lagos State Governments are taking steps to tackle the Apapa gridlock head-on.
N2 billion chicken wasting away
THE statement made by the immediate past President of the Poultry Association of Nigeria, PAN, Dr Ayoola Oduntan, that N2 billion worth of locally produced chicken are wasting away in cold rooms in Nigeria, should embarrass all Nigerians as it makes a complete mockery of our Made-in-Nigeria slogan. It should also challenge us to save Nigeria’s poultry sector from collapse and boost our efforts at economic diversification.
