2022 Budget: Buhari N21bn For Construction Of 14-Bed Presidential Clinic
AHEAD of the passage of the 2022 Appropriation Bill by the National Assembly, President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the construction and equipping of a 14- bed presidential clinic at the cost of N21 billion. The Permanent Secretary, State House, Tijjani Umar, disclosed this on Thursday when he appeared before the Senate Committee on Federal Character and Inter- Governmental Affairs, led...
Crossover Service May Be Threatened As FG Restricts Religious Gatherings To 50 Percent Over COVID-19 Scare
The annual crossover services held by religious organisations across the country is under threat as the Boss Mustapha-led Presidential Steering Committee on COVID-19 declared that indoor religious gatherings should be limited to 50 per cent with full compliance to public health measures. This was contained in a statement signed by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha...
Chikwe Udensi Visits Aro USA Hospital, Donates N2.5m Anti-Malaria Drugs (Photos)
A philanthropist and Interpol Systems Consultant, Sir Chikwe Udensi on Monday made an unscheduled visit to Aro USA Hospital at Old Army Barack in Arochukwu where he made a donation of over N2.5m worth of drugs. Speaking shortly after the donation, Sir Udensi, a frontline governorship aspirant in Abia decried the level of fatalities traceable to malaria in the country. He...
FG Set To Deworm Ten Million Pupils Along With Home Grown School Feeding Nationwide
Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development says it will deworm no fewer than ten million pupils, alongside the school feeding programme, for improved health. The National Coordinator, National Social Investments Programme (NSIP), Dr Umar Bindir, said this at a five-day Planning Meeting and Development of Information Education Communication (IEC) Materials on Monday in Abuja. Bindir, who was represented...
TCI Trains 200 Abia Health Workers On Administering Reversible Contraceptives
A health and family planning campaign organisation, The Challenge Initiative, TCI has trained no fewer than 200 Abia State health workers on how to safely administer Long Acting Reversible Contraceptives (LARC) so as to help families on adequate child spacing. This according to the organisation will ensure the health of the mother, the child as well as assist families in...
President Kim Mobilizes North Korea’s Military In Response To Covid-19 Outbreak
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has mobilized the military to respond to the country's first officially acknowledged outbreak of Covid-19, as the impoverished nation scrambles to address what state media has described as a "major national emergency....
FG Charges Nigerians To Go For Diabetes Test
The National Desk Officer, Diabetes of the Federal Ministry of Health, Dr Alayo Sopekan, has advised Nigerians to go for a test to know their diabetes status. He stated this yesterday in Abuja during a stakeholders’ engagement on iCARE initiatives ...
VP Osinbajo Hospitalised
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has been hospitalised on Saturday, according to his media aide, Laolu Akande. Osinbajo’s hospitalisation is coming shortly after celebrating his wife, Mrs Dolapo Osinbajo, who turned 55 on Saturday. Akande, who took to ...
NMA Urges Political Office Holders To Fix Nigeria’s Health System, End Medical Tourism
The Nigerian Medical Association has urged political office holders in the country to end medical tourism and fix the country’s fragile health system. The NMA also prays for Vice-President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo’s quick and complete recovery from l...
Abuja COVID-19 Response Team On Strike Over Non-payment Of N30k Daily Allowances
Members of the federal capital territory (FCT) COVID-19 emergency response team are currently protesting against the non-payment of their N30,000 daily allowance for April and May Among those being owed are sample collectors, case investigators, ambulance drivers, environmental health worker, temperature readers and cleaners. On Tuesday, they converged on the public health department office, Area 3, Garki, Abuja, demanding that the...
