Senator Aliyu Wamakko (APC-Sokoto North Central) has paid N2,594,000 medical bills of the eight cardiothoracic patients who were operated by a 24-member medical team from Saudi Arabia. Bashar Abubakar, Media Aide to Wamakko said in a statement in Abuja on Saturday that the money was presented to the patients...
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Ekiti State Government has reiterated its commitment towards digitalizing all courts in Ekiti State, provision of adequate working tools for judges among others. Governor Kayode Fayemi, who represented by his Deputy, Mr. Bisi Egbeyemi, made the promise on Friday in Ado Ekiti, during the legal year for year 2021/2022....
By OLA MUDOPE, Lagos – Nigeria is not just a country that has world-class talent, world-class ideas and world-class execution of ideas, with more investments in its health sector, it will also make the country a destination of choice for medical tourists even from developed countries, according to Vice...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) has reinstated its readiness to complement the Federal Government’s efforts to lift 100 million citizens out of poverty, as the nation sets to hold the Nigeria Industrialisation Summit-2021. This is contained in a a statement signed by CAC’s Head...
Unknown gunmen on Friday night attacked the Abolongo Correctional Centre in Oyo Town, freeing unspecified number of inmates at the facility. Mr Olarewaju Anjorin, the Public Relations Officer, Nigeria Correctional Service, Oyo State Command, confirmed the attack to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday in Ibadan. Anjorin...
Cameroonian football authorities and Confederation of African Football (CAF) on Friday signed a framework agreement that authorizes the Central African nation to organize the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) next year. The framework agreement secures host rights for Cameroon and also allows the country to use the working handbook...
More than 100,000 people have fled from a local town in Galmudug state in central Somalia due to high tensions and potential conflict between local government and a paramilitary group, the United Nations said Friday. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said the tension has...
Poverty is not just a state of being poor and people do not just become poor as some factors are responsible for the enhancement of poverty and these factors also ensure its existence from one generation to another. In the society, observation makes one realize that there are few...
By HARUNA AHMED, Gusau – The Zamfara State Police Command has confirmed that bandits had abducted two prospective corps members deployed from Benue to Kebbi and Sokoto states. The Command’s Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Mohammed Shehu, disclosed this in a statement issued to newsmen in Gusau, the state’s capital....
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Godwin Emefiele on Friday said the apex bank had earmarked N200 billion to support the healthcare sector to drive the recovery of Nigeria’s economy. Emefiele said this at the inauguration of Duchess International Hospital, the newly built 100-suits state-of-the-art health facility in...
By TENEBE ANTHONIA, Lagos – FBN Holdings (FBNH) Plc has denied the purported acquisition of a majority stake in the company by Mr Femi Otedola. The company in a statement pasted on the website of the Nigerian Exchange (NGX) Ltd. said it was yet to receive any notification of...
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo says serious private sector investments in Nigeria’s healthcare would reposition the sector and curb medical tourism. Osinbajo expressed this view while inaugurating the Duchess International Hospital, a subsidiary of the Reddington Hospital Group, on Friday, in Lagos. According to Osinbajo, the quality of facilities and...
Arsenal made short work of Aston Villa with a 3-1 English Premier League win at the Emirates, on Friday night. Thomas Partey opened the scoring for Arsenal in the 23rd minute following a corner kick, the ball glancing off his shoulder from close range after Emile Smith Rowe’s whipped...
The National Union Coalition of Aggrieved Pensioners in Benue has appealed to the state government to pay them their pension arrears for 33 months. The union, who made the appeal in a statement signed by its Chairman, Mr Akosu Orban and Secretary Mac Mtsur, said that only six months...
Dr Godwin Maduka, governorship candidate of Accord Party for the Anambra governorship election, slated for Nov. 6, said that the electoral process has its rules and are sacrosanct. Maduka said that no electoral rules bar him from contesting the forthcoming governorship election on Nov. 6 as is being speculated...
Mr Valentine Ozigbo, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the Nov. 6 Anambra governorship election, has decried the condition of roads in the state. Ozigbo gave this indication when he visited the Ogboji-Ndiokolo-Ufuma Road in Orumba area of Anambra which had been rendered impassible due to...
Pope Francis has thanked Argentina football star Lionel Messi for sending him a Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) club jersey. “Lionel Messi, dear brother, thank you for the jersey and the dedication,” the pontiff said in a video published on Friday by Argentina’s Telam news agency. “Thank you for staying grounded....
Mohamed Salah has told Liverpool he wants to stay for the rest of his career, but the Egypt forward insisted the success of his contract negotiations with the club “doesn’t depend on me”. Salah’s current contract expires in 2023 and Liverpool are trying to finalise a new long-term deal....
The Department of State Services (DSS) has released the last two aides of embattled Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, from its custody. Those released include Jamiu Noah Oyetunji and Amudat Habibat Babatunde (Lady K) who were held back in detention earlier in September when...