Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo says the federal government cannot adequately provide health care services for the entire Nigerian population. Osinbajo said this on Tuesday at the national health dialogue organised by Premium Times in Abuja on Monday. Represented by Nicolas Audiferren, his chief physician, Osinbajo said an effective national health insurance scheme ...
Read More »Crisis rocks Senate over secret recruitment
Crisis is allegedly brewing in the Senate over the employment slots allocated to the lawmakers by some federal agencies. Some aggrieved senators have vowed to resist the sharing method allegedly adopted by the leadership of the Senate to allocate the slots. Investigations by our correspondent revealed that the agencies gave ...
Read More »Border closure pushed inflation to 11.24% – NBS
The Consumer Price Index released by the National Bureau of Statistics on Tuesday showed inflation index rose to 11.24 per cent in September, barely a month after the border closure. The 11.24 per cent represents an increase of 0.22 per cent when compared to the 11.02 per cent recorded in ...
Read More »2020 Budget: Buhari To Repair State House Buildings With N4.5bn
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has a plan to spend N4.5 billion to repair State House buildings in 2020. The Federal Government intends to spend a total of N58,446,014,724 in the presidency during the year, according to details of the Appropriation Bill he presented to the National Assembly on Tuesday. A perusal ...
Read More »Apprehension In Bayelsa PDP As FG Drags Guber Candidate Before CCB On Monday
The leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Bayelsa State is in a fix on how to handle a petition against its governorship candidate, Senator Douye Diri, over his failure to declare his assets before the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) while he served as Deputy Chief of Staff ...
Read More »Mayor of Banjul, Rohey Lowe Launches REFELA in Gambia
The Mayor of Banjul, the capital city of Gambia was amazed with the generosity and benevolence of Rohey Lowe who recently launched the Gambian faction of REFELA, a network of women elected officials of substantial and local governments in Africa. According to Mayor Lowe, she is interested in the growth ...
Read More »Lagos officials frustrate vehicle registration, milk applicants
Some Lagos residents, who want to re-register their vehicles, have lamented how officials of the Motor Vehicle Administration Agency under the state Ministry of Transportation frustrate and extort them. They said aside from paying N46,000 for change of ownership documents and number plates, they were being made to part with ...
Read More »Gates, France, US pledge $14bn to end malaria, HIV by 2030
The government of France, led by President Emmanuel Macron; the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, represented by Bill Gates; the US government and other Global Fund donors have pledged $14.02 billion to end malaria, HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis by 2030. This is the biggest amount ever raised for a multilateral health ...
Read More »Online media will be regulated in Nigeria – Lai Mohammed
Lai Mohammed, minister of information and culture, says online news platforms will soon be regulated. The minister said this on Thursday in Abuja when he inaugurated a seven-man committee set up to implement reforms in the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC). Mohammed said the reforms that will be implemented by the ...
Read More »President Buhari Extends the Retirement of His Nephew with 3 years more than 35 Service years
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the extension of service of his Chief Personal Security Officer, Abdulkarim Dauda, by three years. Dauda, who was promoted to the rank of Commissioner of Police last year, is Buhari’s nephew. By the presidential approval, the CPSO, who was due to retire from service on ...
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