The Gombe State Police Command have paraded 17 suspects for allegedly committing various crimes in the state. The State Commissioner of Police, Mr Ishola Babaita, stated this on Monday during a press conference in Gombe. CP Babaita revealed that 14 of the suspects were arrested on May 22, with...
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The World Health Organisation (WHO) Director General, Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus, has said that COVID-19 vaccines are administered in only 10 countries, describing the ongoing vaccine crisis as a scandalous inequity that is perpetuating the pandemic. Dr. Ghebreyesus, in his address to 74th World Health Assembly, said there was no...
Jean-Pierre Lacroix, head of UN peacekeeping operations, has decried the killing of 15 UN peacekeepers in five months of 2021. Lacroix, UN Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations, told the Security Council on Monday that UN “blue helmets’’ faced increased attacks throughout the complex environments in which they worked. He regretted...
Members of the House of Representatives Committee on Finance have faulted the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) for spending over N152 million on the purchase of face masks, hand sanitisers, and protective wears during the COVID-19 lockdown in 2020. The scheme also spent at least N2.48 million monthly on...
A member of the House of Representatives from Rivers State, Awaji-Inombek Abiante, is proposing a bill to repeal the National Youth Service Corps Act. He noted that the NYSC was established to encourage and develop common ties among the Nigerian youths, promote national unity, as well as develop the...
The Presidency has faulted the recent resolutions of the Southern Governors, including the ban on open grazing in the entire southern part of the country. In a statement on Monday, the President’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, believes the Governors have failed to provide any...
More than 200 passengers were injured in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur on Monday when two metro trains collided in a tunnel, police said. The accident happened just before 9:00 pm (1300 GMT), when a packed train collided with a second that was empty and heading in the opposite...
By MBAFAN ADE, Abuja – Nigeria’s first integrative pharmacy and healthcare provider, HealthPlus, has entered into partnership with a Canadian digital health provider, Outpost Health, to deliver its to the largest pharmacy chain in Nigeria. Under the agreement, HealthPlus will be in a position to utilize the Outpost platform,...
At least 115,000 health and care workers have died from Covid-19 since the beginning of the pandemic, the WHO chief said Monday, calling for a dramatic scale-up of vaccination in all countries. At the opening of the World Health Organization’s main annual assembly, Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus hailed the...
Zulum orders sanction as committee uncovers 21 health workers with fake certificates, 91 ghost staff
Zulum orders sanction as committee uncovers 21 health workers with fake certificates, 91 ghost staff
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri- The Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Zulum has ordered disciplinary measures to be taken, after a verification committee identified 21 health workers, amongst them some nurses, operating with fake certificates. The committee also found 91 ghost workers in different health institutions across the state. Chairman...
The FCT Police Command condemns in totality the murder of one Blessing Otula a former student of the University of Abuja, whose body was found along Iddo Village axis and was killed by unknown assailants. Consequently, the Commissioner of Police CP. Bala Ciroma has ordered a full-scale investigation into...
The House of Representatives has expressed anger over $120 million 22 cargo scanners purchased by the Federal Government but were mishandled after take over by the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS). The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rep. Femi Gbajabiamila, expressed the displeasure at a one-day public hearing by...
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Chief Geoffrey Onyeama, has charged officials of the ministry on diplomatic posting to change the narratives about Nigeria in the countries of their assignment. Onyeama gave the task on Monday in Abuja during the opening of a three-day induction programme for the 350 officers...
By CALLISTUS OFFOR, Abuja- Operatives of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) have arrested a member of a notorious child trafficking syndicate that specialized in trafficking children for begging within the Federal Capital Territory. The Head, Press and Public Relations Unit of NAPTIP, Stella...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) office in Igboeze-South Local Government Area of Enugu State was on Sunday gutted by fire. The Chief Security Officer (CSO) of Igboeze-South LGA, Mr Romanus Ezekwueme, confirmed the incident to newsmen on Monday. According to him, I was on duty with some neighborhood...
ARMSTRONG ALLAHMAGANI, Bauchi- The Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, has enjoined Christians in the state to keep praying until there are solutions to the numerous challenges facing the country particularly insurgency, banditry and kidnapping. He stated this in his speech at a one day prayer rally organized by the...
The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Anambra Secretariat, has commenced planting of trees within the premises of its Mbaukwu/Umuawulu, Permanent Orientation Camp, to save the major structures from erosion menace. The Coordinator in the state, Mr Kehinde Aremu, said on Monday in Awka that the menace of erosion was...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it is still assessing the extent of damage on its State Office in Anambra after some hoodlums set the facility ablaze on Sunday. The Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in the state, Dr Nkwachukwu Orji, told newsmen in Awka on Monday that he...
YUSUFU IDEGU, Jos- Participants of the 2021 Senior Executive Course No 43 of the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS) kuru, Jos, have began a one week study of implementation strategies of Gov Simon Lalong’s administration. The group, which paid a courtesy visit to Gov Lalong in...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has pledged to introduced innovations for registering all qualified citizens with the aim of conducting credible, free and fair elections ahead of 2023. The Chairman of the commission, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, disclosed this during a workshop on the review of the 2017/2018 Nationwide...