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The Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki has said the Equity Funds component of the state’s Health Insurance Scheme would be deployed to offset bills of indigent patients at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH). He reassured that his government will sustain reforms in the healthcare system to reposition the state as the country’s medical hub. Obaseki gave the assurance when he received the Chief Medical Director of the University of UBTH, Prof. Darlington Obaseki, who was on a courtesy visit to the Government House in Benin City. The governor noted: “We have no choice but to support you because your success is our success. So, in terms of road rehabilitation in your hospital, we are coming straight to it; we don’t have enough but we will do it. “I will talk to the Edo Healthcare Insurance Scheme so that we can make funds available from the equity funds to offset the bills of the poorest of the poor who cannot pay for the quality of services you have offered them. “For us, we are grateful that we have the UBTH here in this state, as very few states can boast of such a facility. You have helped us to do things professionally; we are not afraid to put out our data; the data that we put out in Edo can stand the test of time anywhere in the world.” He continued: “Our experience from the outbreak of coronavirus showed us that the healthcare system in Edo is one. God forbid you fall ill or you have an emergency, it won’t matter where you are treated. At that point, you don’t care if it is a federal, state, or religious institution, as long as you get cured. “My standpoint as a governor of Edo is that the healthcare system in Edo is one. Our responsibility is to make sure that every institution here lives up to a minimum standard of quality care and it is also our responsibility to support them to meet up to that minimum standard.” Urging on the need for residents to get vaccinated and ensure compliance with preventive protocols against the spread of the virus, Obaseki said: “I am saddened when I see people not protecting themselves against COVID-19. We are not making vaccination compulsory, but for now, it is the best way to protect yourselves and protect the people around you. “Go to any of our isolation centers and see what is happening to people,” he worried. Earlier, Prof. Darlington Obaseki commended the governor for the support which the hospital management has enjoyed under his leadership. https://championnews.com.ng/obaseki-to-offset-bills-of-indigent-patients-in-ubth/ |
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furtherance of the efforts to ensure best experiences of hygiene and safety during consumption of meals, the Federal Government has handed over 339,652 feeding utensils to pupils of Atiku Bagudu Primary School in Kebbi state. According to a statement made available to Blueprint in Abuja, signed by the Principal Information Officer of the Ministry, Grace Osuji, speaking at the event, the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management, Sadiya Umar Farouq, who was represented by the Director of Procurement, Bello Alkali, said the items are branded for the children to benefit from the interventions provided by the Federal Government. She said: “The Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development will continue to improve on service delivery in all its social interventions, especially the National Home Grown School Feeding Programme. . “The interventions that will improve the effectiveness of the Programme has already commenced nationwide namely, the enumeration exercise, a refined and more transparent and accountable partnership between the Federal government and state is being finalised. “An operational review is underway, fully supported by experts and technical partners to ensure that the program succeeds in its objectives and capitalizes on gains and benefits such as women empowering, supporting the education of the girl child, creating employment, and improving inter-governmental collaboration; and the deployment of an extensive, layered and technology-supported monitoring system that will ensure real time information of how the program is being implemented and its evaluation. “The desired reforms has been identified and strategic areas that needed review to accommodate the realities of the time have been planned out and these include; Development of Evidence Based Policy Frameworks to guide Implementation through ensuring the reliability of data especially on schools and pupils; Improving Meal Quality;Capacity Development of all actors in the value chain; Building Strategic Partnerships to achieve sustainability;Introducing support aspects on School Health and Nutrition; Strengthening Monitoring & Evaluation and impact assessment systems.” She added: “The NHGSFP is one of the 4 clusters under the National Social Investment Program (NSIP) NPower, GEEP, CCT and NHGSFP all of which are well grounded in Kebbi State. “The State Government, on the other hand, is responsible for the day-to-day implementation of the Programme including ensuring that data on schools and pupils are authentic (in close partnership with the SUBEB & the NBS), identification and procurement of food items (in the local areas), selection of cooks/vendors (in the communities) and ensuring that the food is properly cooked and adequate portions are timely served to the pupils. “The designed accruable benefits of this program and its impact on the lives and livelihood of individuals, groups and communities is very clear. The number of children attending school will increase, they will perform academically better, the local women will be employed, the local farmers will sell their produce and wealth will be created and distributed within the communities, all innovatively well-coordinated to address the cross cutting issues of Out of School Children, Hunger, Malnutrition and general Poverty. “The NHGSFP has recorded over 9 million pupils being fed by over 100,000 Cooks nationwide. Entrepreneurship and Employment is being created within the school feeding ecosystem in sectors of women entrepreneurs, commodity transportation, farming & agricultural production and many other value-chain actors.” On his part, the representative of the Governor of Kebbi State, the Commissioner for Basic Primary and Secondary Education, Alhaji Muhammadu Magawata Aliero, expressed gratitude to the Government for the gigantic stride of addressing the issue of out of school children in the country, saying the Programme has reduced the problem to the barest minimum. . . The Permanent Secretary for Budget and Planning and Basic Studies, Aisha Usman, commended the progress made in the state, urging the school management to utilise the utensils well and asked that some schools that are not currently captured in the programme should be captured. .The feeding utensils were handed over to the Kebbi State Programme Manager of the National Social Investment Programme (NSIP), Comrade Isa A. Umar,for onward distribution to schools in the state. https://www.blueprint.ng/school-feeding-fg-hands-over-339652-feeding-utensils-to-kebbi/ |
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Arsenal will lose next match after this memorable win. Is it not arsenal that i know |
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the redeployment of five Permanent Secretaries. The Head of Civil Service of the Federation, Dr. Folasade Yemi-Esan, made this known in a statement on Friday night in a statement signed by the Director, Communications, Mallam AbdulGaniyu Aminu. According to the directive, William Nwankwo Alo of the Federal Ministry of Power was redeployed to Police Service Commission (PSC); Abel Olumuyiwa Enitan, Federal Ministry of Environment now redeployed to the Federal Ministry of Aviation; and Hassan Musa, Federal Ministry of Aviation now redeployed to the Federal Ministry of Environment. Also redeployed are Nebeolisa Anako, Federal Ministry of Youth and Sports Development, now redeployed to the Federal Ministry of Power; and Ismaila Abubakar, Police Service Commission (PSC) now redeployed to Federal Ministry of Youth and Sports Development. “The redeployment take immediate effect,” the statement said. https://dailytrust.com/buhari-redeploys-5-perm-secs |
An early morning fire outbreak occurred at the headquarters of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Marina, Lagos, on Wednesday. The incident, it was gathered, affected three offices at the 6th floor of the headquarters. General Manager, Corporate and Strategic Communications, NPA, Olaseni Alakija, who confirmed the incident in a statement made available to Daily Independent, said: “In the early hours of Wednesday, September 22, 2021, a fire incident suspected to have been triggered by an electrical surge, affected three offices on the 6th Floor of the Broad Street wing of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) Headquarters. “Operatives of the NPA Fire Service Department immediately mobilised to the scene and promptly contained the fire. “In line with safety protocols, the affected floor has since been cordoned off and investigations are ongoing to ascertain the actual cause of the fire. “The fire affected one office where two desk tops, tables, chairs and other furniture were lost. Two other adjoining offices were affected by smoke and soot.” https://independent.ng/npa-suffers-early-morning-fire-outbreak/ |
Governor of Borno State, Babagana Zulum has suspended the entire management of the state-owned Ramat Polytechnic in Maiduguri, for a period of six months.http://saharareporters.com/2021/09/21/borno-governor-visits-state-polytechnic-his-alma-mater-suspends-management-over-school
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Seven employees of Kwami and Billiri Local Government Primary Healthcare Departments in Gombe State are currently in police net “for diverting 5,450 Insecticides Treated Nets (ITNs) meant for free distribution in their communities.”https://dailytrust.com/gombe-7-health-workers-in-police-net-for-diverting-5340-mosquito-nets
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The Taliban has announced the reopening of secondary schools in Afghanistan for boys only, effectively banning high school education for girls in the country. The majority of Afghan schools welcomed students back today for the first time since the militant group swept to power last month. Announcing the move on Friday, the Taliban said that “all male teachers and students should attend their educational institutions” from Saturday, the start of the Afghan week, but made no mention of girls and female teachers. Girls have been able to attend primary school in some of the classrooms that have managed to remain open during the chaos of the past two months, but high schools for girls have remained shuttered since the fall of Kabul in mid-August. Meanwhile, Abdul Baqi Haqqani, the minister of higher education, said earlier this week that women could continue to study in universities and postgraduate programs, but only in gender-segregated classrooms and in appropriate Islamic dress. The announcements threaten to confirm suspicions that life under the Taliban will spell the return of a brutal regime. When the group last ruled Afghanistan, between 1996 and 2001, most women were barred from going to work and girls were denied the right to an education beyond the sixth grade. It comes despite Taliban officials insisting in a recent charm offensive that the group has reformed in the 20-year interim and that a new Islamic Emirate would respect women’s rights. The promises have largely been viewed as part of an attempt to court international favour as the Taliban tries to secure emergency funding after inheriting a country on the verge of economic collapse. Separately on Friday, the militant group announced the opening of a ministry for the “propagation of virtue and the prevention of vice” in the building that once housed the Women’s Affairs Ministry. Video footage shared online showed women who were previously employed at the ministry protesting outside their former workplace because the Taliban had banned them from entering the building. Several reports suggested female demonstrators have been beaten by Taliban members in Kabul and other Afghan cities in recent weeks. The UN highlighted in late August, when the Taliban were still fresh in power, that it had seen “credible” reports of human rights abuses at the hands of the Islamist group, including “summary executions” of civilians and restrictions on women. UN Human Rights High Commissioner Michelle Bachelet said that women’s rights were a “fundamental red line”, and that “access to quality secondary education for girls will be an essential indicator of [the Taliban’s] commitment to human rights”. Women in Afghanistan have already been ordered to stay at home while the group establishes a new government. Zabihullah Mujahid, a spokesman for the Taliban, said the order was “a very temporary procedure” that would remain “until we have full security in place”. “Our security forces are not trained [in] how to deal with women — how to speak to women [for] some of them,” he added. Increasing signals that the Taliban will soon revert to its previous tactics prompted members of Afghanistan’s national women’s football team to flee across the border into Pakistan earlier this week. According to Pakistan’s Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry, the players entered the country through the northwestern Torkham border crossing holding valid travel documents. Experts have warned that Afghan women are experiencing “cultural genocide” amid strict dress codes and stay at home orders under Taliban power. Dr Bahar Jalali, an Afghan historian who started the hashtag #DoNotTouchMyClothes, told i she was “gravely concerned that in the next few decades nobody is going to know what Afghanistan was, the heritage might die.” https://inews.co.uk/news/world/afghan-girls-denied-education-secondary-schools-reopen-boys-only-1206502?ITO=newsnow |
Foremost phone and electrical appliances manufacturer, Itel, has opened a home store in Agege, Lagos State, the nation’s commercial capital. The store is the company’s first in the country and is an extension of the Itel brand’s mission to help Nigerians and Africans at large enjoy a better life at subsidized costs. The walk-in store will strictly provide Itel’s product portfolio of smartphones, televisions, mobile accessories and electrical home appliances to consumers across the country. The Itel Home Store boasts a wide range of family products that are user-friendly, pocket-friendly, and convenient for everyday use including televisions, electrical appliances like electric cookers, standing fans, electric kettles etc., and mobile accessories like headphones, speakers, power banks, and smartphones. “Itel has come this far because of the loyalty and consistent patronage of our communities,” says Itel’s Country Manager, Kevin Zhang. He added that: “We exist to serve our communities and to continually provide them with better everyday products. This Itel home store is just the beginning of another amazing journey for Itel and our loyal consumers in Nigeria, and we cannot wait to show you the next level of innovation that we have to offer.” Present at the grand opening were top-notch actress Mercy Johnson Okojie, key Itel staff, and well-wishers. Loyal Itel customers at the event got products including television sets and smartphones for free. The company also noted that there will be free gifts for customers who purchase from the store between September 20 and 26, 2021. https://tribuneonlineng.com/itel-opens-home-store-in-lagos/ |
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An investigation has revealed how the government of Cross River State awarded a road project worth N42 billion to a company with no traceable address. In 2018, the state governor, Ben Ayade, commenced the construction of spaghetti flyover and rehabilitation and dualisation of the Calabar-Odukpani Highway. The project had appeared in the state's 2018 budget, named “Budget of Kinetic Crystallization”. The state first earmarked N18 billion for the project. In the 2019 budget, N16 billion was appropriated for the project while that of 2020 had N8 billion. While the project remains critical to the people of the state, nothing tangible has been done despite the huge amount of money budgeted. Ayade had earlier estimated that the project would be completed by 2019 but later shifted the completion deadline to April 2020. Findings by the CrossRiverWatch, however, showed that the highly-anticipated project remains in shambles with only skeletal work currently ongoing. The state government had originally contracted Zeon Engineering and Consulting in 2018 to execute the project. But two years after it commenced work, the company ditched the project, further worsening the condition of the road. Amid the growing concerns over the parlous state of the road, the state government engaged Zeka Global Company Limited, an indigenous construction firm, to continue the project. Findings, however, revealed that the newly contracted company was only incorporated on January 22, 2020, according to the Corporate Affairs Commission, without any previous track records. The investigation showed the purported address of the company as No. 9 Maple Street, Calabar South Local Government Area, a residential apartment. This was even as no resident in the building or around the street knows the company. The state government has also kept the process of awarding the contract to the company a top-secret, raising suspicion of irregularities by the authorities in several quarters. Government officials contacted on the matter declined to comment while Engr. Dane Osim Asu, the Commissioner for Works in the state, threatened to sue CrossRiver Watch for inquiring about the contract. The poor condition of the Calabar-Odukpani Highway has worsened the plights of commuters and traders around the area. Before the project started, there was a car park where the roundabout would be. It had to make way for the construction vehicles. Vincent Ekpe said: “You see, Odukpani Local Government serves as a border. When you’re coming from Cameroon, you land here; Akwa Ibom, you land here; Port Harcourt, Bayelsa, and the rest, you still land here. The only source of revenue was this park and it has been destroyed because of the project here.” A butcher who is also a road user, Elijah Uko stated: “I don’t know if they will deliver this year. They have entered the other side. The road is too small; they need to expand it. I can’t even see where the flyover is terminating. I still don’t know if it’s flyover or walkover based on what I’m seeing on the ground.” Daniel Okon, a stone merchant at the proposed site of the so-called spaghetti flyover has his doubts about the project. “Where is the flyover? I have not seen any flyover here; we just hear it but can’t see it. We hear it on radio and see it on billboards,” he said. http://saharareporters.com/2021/09/15/how-cross-river-government-gave-company-no-traceable-address-n42billion-flyover-road |
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The President, English Scholars Association of Nigeria (ESAN), Professor Shola Babatunde, yesterday called on two examination bodies in Nigeria, the National Examination Council (NECO) and the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) to stop making credit pass in English and Mathematics as prerequisites for admission into universities or polytechnics in Nigeria. Babatunde, however, described the two examinations bodies’ modality of admission into the higher institutions as ludicrous that would not promote effective language communication. Speaking at the 37th Annual National Conference of ESAN tagged: ‘KWARESAN 2021’, which was flagged off at the main auditorium of the University of Ilorin, Kwara State, Babatunde also urged the federal government to establish English Language Council in Nigeria, as part of measures to promote and encourage effective communication in the language. He stated that the council should be empowered to make pronouncements and policies that enjoy government backing for promoting National English. The conference had the theme: ‘English Language and Literary Studies in Nigeria: Realities of the New Normal’. Those expected to form membership of the council, according to him, are patriarchs of English Studies in the country. Babatunde said the agitation was unfortunate at a time that complaints had arisen on the low communicative performance of students in English language. He also suggested the creation of National English Studies Resource Centre to carry out studies on the National English (NE) corpus; implement relevant NE policies and other related matters. The university don said proposed centre would be an ideal corpus to implement relevant NE policies and other related matters. According to him, “This is why the call on the federal government to NECO and JAMB not to make credit pass in English and Mathematics basic requirements for admission into universities and polytechnics in Nigeria is not only ludicrous but also very unfortunate at this time when we are complaining about the low communicative performance of our students in English Language, and when our Arabic and French speaking neighbours are eager to come to Nigeria to learn the English language. “The emphasis should be on the improvement of the facilities and the training and employment of adequate number of teachers to teach the two subjects in order to minimise failure rates. “My suggestion is that we need to go beyond our previous efforts if we really desire to show that we are running late in our efforts. We need a change of strategies.” The forum of scholars is poised to collate and store for easy retrieval of all research efforts on the English language in Nigeria, adding that they are presently scattered. Babatunde said: “The association has done its best, and the efforts are obviously commendable. We, however, think we need more than an association to take us beyond this point. “We are therefore proposing the need for an English Language Council in Nigeria. The council will have as its members as patriarchs of the English Studies in Nigeria.” The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ilorin, Professor Sulyman Age Abdulkareem, who declared the conference open, noted that since the Nigerian lingua franca remains English, moving a mountain becomes ease for students if they could put words together appropriately. He said whatever knowledge derived from the conference was supposed to prepare the participants for a better Nigeria. Also, Professor Gabriel Bassey Egbe of the Department of English and Literary Studies, Veritas University, Abuja, was the keynote speaker at the event, where the Vice-Chancellor of University of Abuja, Professor AbdulRasheed Na’Allah, bagged an award of excellence. https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2021/09/15/neco-jamb-urged-to-cancel-credit-pass-in-english-mathematics-as-prerequisites-for-admission/ |
The Kano State House of Assembly has given Governor Umar Abdullahi Ganduje 48 hours to remove the Chairman of the State Revenue Board, AbduRazak Salihi, for violating the constitutional provision of the nation and disrespect to the legislative chambers.https://dailypost.ng/2021/09/14/kano-assembly-gives-ganduje-48hrs-ultimatum-to-sack-revenue-board-chair/
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Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has directed the demolition of shanties in Nkpogu, Port Harcourt, the state capital.https://dailypost.ng/2021/09/13/wike-orders-demolition-of-shanties/
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The world’s largest Galleri blood test trial will enrol 140,000 participants from across England to assess the test's efficacy. The National Health Service (NHS) in the UK has commenced the largest clinical trial for assessing healthcare company Grail’s Galleri blood test, which can identify more than 50 cancer types before symptoms emerge. The Galleri test can potentially detect chemical changes in fragments of genetic code-cell-free deoxyribonucleic acid (cfDNA) that leak from tumours into the bloodstream. The simple blood test can check for the initial signs of cancer in the blood, the NHS noted. The NHS announced plans to initiate the trial of the Galleri blood test in November last year. The randomised control trial will be conducted by The Cancer Research UK and King’s College London Cancer Prevention Trials Unit, along with the NHS and Grail. A first of its kind study, the NHS-Galleri trial plans to enrol 140,000 subjects in eight regions across England to assess the efficacy of the test for use in the NHS. The blood samples from the first subjects in the trial will be obtained at mobile testing clinics in retail parks, as well as at various convenient community locations. The trial’s participants must not have had a cancer diagnosis in the last three years. NHS chief executive Amanda Pritchard said: “This quick and simple blood test could mark the beginning of a revolution in cancer detection and treatment here and around the world. “By finding cancer before signs and symptoms even appear, we have the best chance of treating it, and we can give people the best possible chance of survival. “The Galleri blood test, if successful, could play a major part in achieving our NHS Long Term Plan ambition to catch three-quarters of cancers at an early stage, when they are easier to treat.” According to research so far, the test was demonstrated to be effective at finding cancers that are usually difficult to detect in the early stages, such as head and neck, bowel, lung, pancreatic and throat cancers. Grail Europe president Harpal Kumar said: “The Galleri test can not only detect a wide range of cancer types but can also predict where the cancer is in the body with a high degree of accuracy. “The test is particularly strong at detecting deadly cancers and has a very low rate of false positives.” Patients whose cancer is detected in the early stages – either one or two – usually have a wider range of therapy options available, which can be curative and are less aggressive. Preliminary results from the trial are anticipated to be reported in 2023. The NHS intends to expand the rollout to one million individuals in 2024 and 2025. https://www.medicaldevice-network.com/news/nhs-trial-grail-cancer-test/ |
Governor Bello Matawalle of Zamfara has said his government is no longer interested in dialoguing with bandits since they rejected the olive branch given tohttps://gazettengr.com/no-more-amnesty-for-bandits-in-zamfara-gov-matawalle/
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