West Africa’s healthcare investment momentum builds as WHX returns to Nigeria
Nigeria’s healthcare sector is undergoing rapid transformation, with forecasts predicting a 7.1% expansion and an anticipated market value of US$161.7 million by 2027. This growth is fuelled by a US$1.2 billion Federal Ministry investment in infrastructure and workforce, major oncology and diagnostic expansions by the Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority, and increased imports under the African Continental Free Trade Area […]
Ghana’s Atta Mills dies at 68
Ghanaian President John Evans Atta Mills died of cardiac arrest yesterday at a military hospital in Accra on the day he was scheduled to be in Abuja on a one day working visit.
Six months after Bonga spill: Oil communities still grumbling (3)
The way SPDC managed the Bonga oil spill incident of December 20, 2011 indicates that we are yet to see a “new improved” SPDC, which is the current slogan of SPDC. Implementation of the Gmou so far has been bedeviled by lip service and fleeting commitment to the unambiguous provisions by operators of the GmOu in SPDC’s Central Division.
How we turned round FUPRE in 3 months – Prof Alhassan Bichi
All the programmes in the college of science, which are due for accreditation, had all been accredited. The programmes we are now working for their accreditation are the programmes in the college of technology, which, as against the science programmes, which are four- year degree programmes, four years in terms of length of residency of the students – the engineering programmes, we are working towards their accreditation.
SUBSIDY FRAUD INCORPORATED (1): Fresh scandal surrounds FG’s committee
This will shock you. It is the report of Sunday Vanguard’s painstaking investigation with sources inside Aso Rock Presidential Villa, the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, the Petroleum Products Pricing and Regulatory Agency, PPPRA, the Petroleum Equalization Fund, PSF, and the Petroleum Support Fund, PSF, just to mention a few.
Is government doing enough to resolve the fuel subsidy crisis?
In a way, yes. This is evident in the panels set up to probe the activities of fuel marketers and also the Presidency’s vow to deal with the culprits. But government can do a lot more to instil transparency in the system. We must stop the barefaced stealing that is going on in the oil sector.
