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Isaac Adewole , minister of health, says consumption taxes on products like alcohol and tobacco should be increased and used for the funding of healthcare.
Speaking on Tuesday at THISDAY healthcare financing policy dialogue in Abuja, Adewole said Nigeria has the lowest health budget in the world. He said health financing in Nigeria is mostly from out-of-pocket spending. Out-of-pocket spendings are costs incurred on health care services that are not reimbursed by insurance.
The minister said: “as a result, OOP spending accounts for 75.2 percent of total health expenditure among the highest in the world and 25 percent of households spend more than 10 percent of their household consumption health; a sign that more people are prone to poverty traps if they fall ill, for a country of our size. This is not acceptable. In the issue of tax rate, 5 percent, our value added tax is one of the lowest in the world and there are opportunities to expand this by increasing taxes on the consumption of harmful products such as alcohol and tobacco . In particular, our tobacco excise rates of 20 percent are well below the 75 percent World Health Organisation benchmark.”
Adewole urged states to invest in the health sector rather than allow the federal government shoulder the responsibility alone. He said: “ This is my third year as a minister. When there’s disease outbreak in Calabar, there is diarrhoea in Kano, they say it’s the minister of health’s problem. Where are the commissioners of health? We should not assume that they do not have any role to play and everything is on the federal ministry of health; that is wrong. “The states have a role to play, they have responsibilities, there are people in those states who need to be taken care of. But everything is for the federal government to resolve".
He added that. "maybe, when oil prices were high and there was a lot of money, the federal government could take on everything. The states are not improving their health workforce; they are not employing nurses, they are not employing doctors, they are not even paying their salaries. At the state level, a consultant in the state earns close to what the most junior doctor at the federal level will earn. That is where we have a problem. So, we need to work together.” http://www.pressnewsng.com.ng/2018/03/taxes-on-tobacco-and-alcohol-should-be_8.html?m=1

we need this kind of judge in our judicial system death sentence for rapists is the best approach to curb this heinous crimes.

all criminals that refused to learn and stop his or her crimes will be catch and disciplined. death sentence is the best justice for this case.

so so pathetic. the so called clueless leaders aren't doing the needful too. not good at all.

it's so so unfortunate that these are Nigerians that's destroying our images abroad. there are ones in United Kingdom too. what is really happening in this great nation. jail them all.

Gregory Bland, 55; Temitayo David, 55; and Toyosi Ogunleye, 43, have been charged with theft by receiving.
Deputies said they began investigating after a California company was not paid for an order of 40 microscopes totaling $11,555.20 that was shipped to the warehouse on Eastgate Place in Snellville.
The order had appeared to come from an existing customer, but investigators learned that the microscope company had actually been victim of a business email compromise scheme, which is a type of phishing scam.
Investigators went to the warehouse on Feb. 23. They encountered Bland, who said he was allowed to live at the building in exchange for accepting packages for the owner, David, according to a sheriff’s office release.
During a search, investigators found the microscopes and other stolen items, including medical equipment and construction equipment, the release said.
All three suspects were arrested at the warehouse. David is being held without bond in the Gwinnett County Detention Center. Bland and Ogunleye were released on $11,200 bond. http://www.pressnewsng.com.ng/2018/03/serial-rapist-sentenced-to-72-years.html?m=1

ojudu will always fail in his bid. Fayose is a grassroots politician. Infact as it stand, pdp will win massively and convincely in ekiti and osun state governorship election in this year.

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Cutehector:
I don't know why some Nigerians like to offload their frustrations on others when driving on the road.

Anyone who acts stupidly just like the man is a frustrated human being..

lol, it happens everytime. it's only God that will help us from them.

debolayinka:
Men who boast and drag with women are babies with beards.

byt some are old and also drag women around it's not only beards gang that does that, the shave gangs too does that act.

this is very babaric of the highest order. we should all respect ourselves, irrespective of our religion and tribes. respect is reciprocal.

The serial rapist who on Tuesday begged the court to hang him for his heinous acts, has been sentenced to an effective 72 years in jail, Zimbabwe.
According to Herald, regional magistrate Mrs Dambudzo Malunga had sentenced Charles Magombedze to 78 years in prison, but conditionally suspended six years.
Magombedze was convicted on eight counts of rape on his own plea of guilty. He shocked the court when he requested the hangman’s noose, saying he was unable to exorcise the evil spirit that led him into committing the crimes if left alive.
Malunga said Magombedze deserved severe punishment as he behaved like a beast when he raped the victims by using dangerous weapons like iron bars, axes and machetes when he committed the offences.
Magombedze raped a woman before abusing a pupil at Chibaya High School in June last year. In the same month, he raped another woman who was doing laundry along Tugwi River in Chivi.
In October the same year, the convict raped another woman who was going to church. He also raped a police constabulary’s wife, then raped a 14- year-old girl, who was herding cattle in January this year.
He raped another woman after waylaying her at Charumbira Farm. In the same month, Magombedze raped a child he found sleeping in a hut at Jeka Village. He raped another woman after threatening her near Stephen business centre.
He also abused a woman in a garden at Rukanda Farm in the same month after hitting her with a brick. Magombedze raped another woman whom he found in a garden along Tugwi River.
The serial rapist also handcuffed and raped another woman at Shokoni Business Centre in Chivi. He raped another one at Razi Business Centre in the same district while she was coming from hospital.
Magombedze also faces attempted murder charges after stabbing a woman five times whom she failed to rape after she managed to flee.
On his initial appearance in court on Tuesday, Magombedze said he was a member of a Satanic cult whose goal was to spill blood and to have unprotected sex to breed another Satanic generation. http://www.pressnewsng.com.ng/2018/03/serial-rapist-sentenced-to-72-years.html?m=1

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A very touching story of women standing up for one of their own has gone viral on social media.
According to Kutu Ameji who shared the story, a male driver tried to intimidate a female driver in traffic but the woman refused to be intimidated and stood her ground. The man kept using the usual line of "I am a man, I have your type at home," to try to bring her down but she wasn't having it.
Later, when the man and other men tried to deflate the woman's tyre, many women stuck in traffic came out of their cars and stood guard around the woman's car.
Read the story and watch the videos below.

http://www.pressnewsng.com.ng/2018/03/nigerian-lady-recounts-touching-story.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9bEjelwmIk

Cromcruach91:
It is good....

BUT THE PROBLEM IS...HOW DO THEY KEEP UP THE MAINTENANCE.?

Thing is, within a year, the newly renovated hostels will start looking old and wretched.

Because...there is enough money for the renovation...but not enough to keep up the maintenance.

And the only way to keep the hostels in good repair is to charge fees as high as 600000 naira per annum.

Or go and ask govt to spend 4 trillion of this year's 8 trillion naira budget on....universities alone.

so are you now saying that the OAU students should be paying #600000 for school fees. how could you reason this way. so so pathetic. upon the millions of naira on covenant and abuad universities, OAU still beat them well in competition.

omololu2020:
I can now see say you no get sense

I won't read any of your senseless comment again

lol you have no point to convince me more. please kindly tell us the current igr of the state upon the state infrastructures. truth is Always bitter.

debolayinka:
So what? Are Fulanis not legal killers? You better write a letter of appreciation to their patrons.

Anyways, little baby, sorry you're suffering for the wrong the older ones commited 3 years ago.

hmmmm, the painful part is that the kids are the ones that are mostly affected. shedding innocent blood in this nation has been the order of the day. so painful and pathetic.

omololu2020:
if the state university calendar is stable then it's all thanks to the governor, if he does not fund the school well,the lectures will go on strike and the school calendar won't be stable,and you will start ranting about it

And who establish the school in the first place. is it not former governor olagunsoye Oyinlola that established that great edifice. till today the people of that community where the school was located are appreciating him. if you don't know the present isn't funding that school. it's the revenue they generate that's been used to fund that school. Infact when Ogbeni started paying the workers and the teachers half salaries, the management of the school was paying the lecturers full salaries. thanks to Oyinlola that built that school.

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I pray for the injured f speedy recovery.

Two pupils of Our Lady of Fatima School , Kuru, near Jos in Plateau State, lost their lives in an accident involving their school bus today.
An official of the Federal Road Safety Corps at the scene of the accident told NAN that the early morning incident, which occurred around Mararaba-Jama’a road, was as a result of brake failure. “A total of 100 children and seven staff were in the bus; two children were killed instantly, while those injured have been taken to hospitals,” t he official said.
According to the official, one boy and one girl lost their lives. He added that 18 kids were taken to Our Lady of Fatima Hospital, Jos, 76 to the Plateau Specialist Hospital, Jos, while four others were rushed to Bukuru Specialist Hospital.
Meanwhile, Governor Simon Lalong has visited some of the injured children taken to Plateau Specialist Hospital. Lalong, who visited the children on their individual beds, spoke to them in whispers, urging them to be strong. The Commissioner for Information and Communication, Mr. Yakub Dati, later told NAN that the governor had promised to pay the medical bills of the survivors. http://www.pressnewsng.com.ng/2018/03/two-students-die-and-98-others-injured.html?m=1

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this shedding of innocent blood by Fulani herdsmen is getting too much.

A 9-month-old baby was among those injured in fresh attacks on Fulani settlements by suspected Mambilla militia in Sardauna Local Government Area of Taraba State last Saturday. check the photos below : http://www.pressnewsng.com.ng/2018/03/photo-9-month-old-baby-allegedly-shot.html?m=1

omololu2020:
this thread is about construction of a road,create your own thread and talk about construction of airport,stop disturbing the people wey dey enjoy this picture, I visited osun in 2006 I almost cried cause of how underdevelop the state is,I visited this same osun in December 2017,I was shocked when I saw the roads and schools.

i hope you know that it was during that period that osun State University was created. and till today, their academic calendar is still stable. your argument isn't genuine here. post dagbolu international market project here. since 7 years ago he proposed the project, but till today, nothing has been done on that. not to talk of dilapidated schools in the villages. you just have to argue with salient points and not ranting on nairaland. his second term tenure is disastrous. all the projects that ought to have take him and his contractors 6-8 months will be done after 2 years. all is well.

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ideologies:
This guy started as a very broke dude just a few years ago.

God bless young men working hard to hit it big, amen

yeah he influence himself with the investors too. they believe in his dreams and they invest heavily.

ETHIX:
Good

I am planning to buy my apartment soon

please work towards it and fast and pray fervently about it. God never sleep

Waoooooooo beautiful couple I must say here.