By Gabriel Ewepu – Abuja The Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Nigeria Export-Import Bank, NEXIM, Abba Bello, yesterday, disclosed that the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, will soon off-take Nigeria gold at the international price. Bello made this known at the Nigeria-Canada Investment Summit 2019, held in Abuja while speaking on what NEXIM […]

The Obaseki/Shaibu Movement (OSM), traders’ union, market women and other groups within Edo State have condemned in strong terms the attack on the Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, Oba of Lagos, Oba Rilwan Akiolu and other dignitaries at the country home of the former governor and National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), […]

By Chioma Onuegbu – Uyo The Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR, Eket Field Office, Akwa Ibom state has sealed no fewer than 13 illegal filling stations in the state. The Operations Controller, Mr. Tamunoiminabo Kingsley-Sundaye who disclosed this to newsmen, said the filling stations were sealed yesterday in Uyo, Essien Udim, Ikot Ekpene, Abak, Etim, […]

…doctors’ exit not so bad; also beneficial to economy, Nigerians —NMA …health system in need of urgent transformation —Okowa, Gowon By Luminous Jannamike – Abuja President Muhammadu Buhari has lamented the human resources needs of Nigeria’s healthcare system, saying the mass exodus of doctors from Nigeria is real and worrisome. The President stated this on […]

…says abstinence still best way to control AIDS Oyo State Governor, Engineer Seyi Makinde, on Tuesday, inaugurated the Board of the Oyo State Agency for the Control of AIDS (SACA), noting that dealing with the scourge of AIDS “is of utmost importance to his administration.” Governor Makinde stated that though there had been some signs […]

Gov. Inuwa Yahaya of Gombe state has described the death of  Dr. Saidu Alkali, the Chief Medical Director (CMD) Federal Teaching Hospital (FTH), Gombe, as a monumental loss to the state and Nigeria as a whole. This is contained in a statement issued on Tuesday in Gombe by Mr. Ismaila Misilli, the Senior Special Assistant […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has tasked Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) to seek better ways of improving healthcare service delivery to Nigerians. He gave the task at the second National Health Summit (NHS) and the 25th Commonwealth Medical Association Triennial Conference on Tuesday in Abuja. News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the theme of the conference […]

The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations has said that about 4.02 million people in Nigeria are currently faced with acute food insecurity. The FAO Country Director, Suffyan Koroma, said this during the presentation of October 2019 CH Analysis’ outcome for 16 states and the FCT, on Tuesday in Abuja. Koroma said […]

Gov. Simon Lalong of Plateau says his administration will soon gazette a Water Sector Law to improve peoples’ access to water and sanitation in the state. Lalong disclosed this at the launching of the “Keep Your Promise Campaign on WASH” on Tuesday in Jos. Represented by the state Commissioner for Water Resources, Alhaji Ibrahim Bello, […]

Gov. Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta says Patient-Centred Care (PCC) remains a viable option for the improvement of health care delivery in the country. Okowa made this assertion in his keynote address at the second National Health Summit, organised by the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), on Tuesday in Abuja. News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), reports that […]