Health Insurance Will Fast-track Quality Health Care–Sambo

The Executive Secretary, National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) Prof. Mohammed Sambo has expressed optimism that the Health Insurance, “Under One Roof”, will ensure quality and affordable healthcare for all Nigerians. Insurance Under one Roof is an approach to decentralise insurance practice in Nigeria to sub-national level (States) with the central coordinating entity at the Federal level. Sambo said this on Tuesday in his welcome speech at the Health Insurance Under One Roof (HIUOR) Document Validation...

Senate Summons Defence Minister, Service Chiefs, Others As Boko Haram Claims Abduction of Schoolboys

The Senate, on Tuesday, summoned the Minister of Defence, the service chiefs, and heads of the Nigerian Police Force and the Department of State Service over the unending insecurity situation in the country. The Senate passed the resolution following a motion moved by Senator Bello Mandiya from Katsina State on the abduction of a number of students of a secondary school in the state whose officials claimed were carried out by unknown bandits. The resolution...

By Ibrahim Abdul’Aziz, Regional Correspondent ____ The Boko Haram terrorists have claimed responsibility for the abduction of hundreds of schoolboys of Government Science Secondary School, Kankara in Katsina State. In a 4:30 audio message sent to Daily Nigerian, the leader of Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, said his group abducted the schoolboys because Western education is against the tenets of Islam. “What happened in Katsina was done to promote Islam and discourage un-Islamic practices as Western education...

El-Rufai Orders Closure of Schools in Kaduna as COVID-19 Cases Increase

By Ibrahim Abdul’Aziz, Regional Correspondent Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has ordered the closure of public and private schools in the state from Wednesday, December 16 as cases of coronavirus increase in the state. This was contained in a statement issued by the State Commissioner for Education, Shehu Muhammad. The statement read, “The Kaduna State Ministry of Education wishes to inform the general public, parents, guardians and students of the new date of schools’ closure...

Enugu Set to Achieve Open Defecation Free Status By 2022, Ministry Launches Clean Family Campaign

The Special Adviser to the Enugu State Governor on Water Resources, Dubem Onyia Jnr has called on families resident in Enugu State to maximize the Clean Family Campaign and adopt the recommended hygiene behaviors. Onyia Jnr made that promise at the Clean Family Campaign Launch organized by the Ministry of Water Resources, Enugu, WaterAid Nigeria and other stakeholders; the Campaign aims to motivate people and healthcare facilities towards practicing key hygiene behaviors. “The family is...

We Should Have A Deep Sense of Shame for Having A Better Life Than Our Children – Pat Utomi

ABEOKUTA — A popular Nigerian Professor of Political Economy, Pat Utomi, has said Nigerian leaders should be ashamed of the situation of the country. Utomi who is a management expert, said it is shameful that life in the past was far better than what the current generation of youths are inheriting from their parents this time. The Professor spoke at a symposium to herald the installation of a former member of the House of Representatives,...

Road Accident: 11 Navy Applicants Die in Jigawa

By Ibrahim Abdul’Aziz, Regional Correspondent _____ At least 11 persons, mostly youths who were  aspiring to be soldiers,  reportedly lost their lives in a road accident while travelling to write an examination for the Nigerian Navy in Kano. The police said the victims, from Gagarawa Local Government Area of Jigawa, met their death as their vehicle rammed into a trailer, which was parked wrongly by the road. Residents also said the crash occurred around Ringim...

We Cannot Forget the Catastrophic Genocide Against Innocent Souls — Shiites

The Islamic Movement of Nigeria, mostly regarded as the Shiites, says the movement will not forgive the federal government over the 2015 Zaria massacre which led to the death of many of its members. Sheik Abdulhamid Bello, a senior cleric of the movement, disclosed this on Saturday in Abuja while addressing journalists to mark five years of the massacre. He noted that the catastrophic genocide against the innocent souls remained fresh in their memories and...

Blind to Marine Debris: How Plastic Waste Disrupt Aquatic Life in Port Harcourt

The negligence of Nigerians and the disinclination of the government to control single use of plastic is exposing marine life and the entire ecosystem to its hazard. Beloved John who was in Port Harcourt, a populated coastal city in Nigeria, reports how the plastic plague is damaging aquatic life and it impacts on humans.   Behind the suburban Amadi-Ama community in southern Port Harcourt is a vital inland water body. This is Amadi creek, an...

Coronavirus: Africa’s Efforts to Obtain Vaccine Funding Promising – Africa CDC

The African Union’s Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said the prospects for receiving funding for the purchase of the coronavirus vaccines is promising after the World Bank pledged US$12 billion to the joint venture. Africa CDC Director, John Nkengasong, said on Thursday the negotiations with several major financiers has been continuing and had become most urgent because of the fears of a second wave infections spree. The African Import and Export Bank...

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