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Realtruth2023:
Stop this gaslighting the real culprits are yoruba bigots like paraman, FreeStuffsNG and co.

Yes o, Igbos don't attack Yorubas, only Yorubas attack Igbos

DMerciful:
You're not wise. Taking the statement of political opponents as gospel truth

You're the one that's not wise because there's evidence by the NBS to show the people of Anambra state got poorer under Obi.

wildernessVoice:
Then Sunday & Akintoye should be jail too for Odua nation agitation.
Are we a lawless country.
How can a Court of competent jurisdiction rule for Kanu release and the Govt is still holding him.

The supreme court said he can be prosecuted, they didn't ask the government to release him... Kanu will keep on facing prosecution, obi can do his worst

Scholarnwadimma:
Lagos is not a city. It is a state.

There's a difference between Lagos state and the city of Lagos

Coolsperm:
This country will not work, let's just tell our selves the truth and go out sperate ways

PresidObi:
Some people are immune to truth

If peter obi is allowed to rig his way to power in 2027, you won't ask for Nigeria to divide again

Nnamdi Kanu won't be release, Gbajue can do his worst

Anioma will never be part of the south east

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control has lauded President Bola Tinubu’s Executive Order granting special waivers on pharmaceutical inputs, APIs, excipients, and other essential raw materials.

The Director General, NAFDAC, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, in a statement she signed on Saturday, said that the Order which would exempt specified pharmaceutical machinery, equipment, goods, and accessories from tariffs and excise duties, would “set the stage for a sustainable and high-quality healthcare system for all Nigerians.”

She said the initiative, as a part of the Nigeria Health Sector Renewal Investment Initiative, “addresses longstanding challenges and aims to improve health outcomes for Nigerians.”

She added that the President’s Order would transform Nigeria’s healthcare sector by increasing local production of healthcare products, reducing costs of healthcare equipment and consumables, and promoting local investments.

The EO, as published by the Office of the Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, has the following provisions:

Zero Tariffs and Excise Duties: Exempting specified pharmaceutical machinery, equipment, goods, and accessories from tariffs and excise duties to reduce production costs and make healthcare products more affordable.

Special Waivers on Pharmaceutical Inputs: APIs, excipients, and other essential raw materials, including those for Long-lasting Insecticidal Nets (LLINs) and Rapid Diagnostic Kits, will benefit from zero tariffs, excise duties, and VAT, lowering the price of essential medicines and medical supplies.

Market Shaping: Establishing framework contracts and volume guarantees to stabilise the local manufacturing market.

Regulatory Harmonisation and Expedited Approvals: Developing a Harmonised Implementation Framework to guide regulatory agencies in streamlining approval processes.

Implementation and Compliance: Agencies like the Nigeria Customs Service, NAFDAC, SON, and FIRS are mandated to ensure swift implementation. The waivers and exemptions are valid for two years from the effective date.

Also, the Order, it was noted, would address key issues, including:

Reducing the High Cost of Medicines: By lowering tariffs and providing special waivers, the EO aims to reduce the prohibitive costs of medicines and other pharmaceutical products, making healthcare more affordable for Nigerians.

Boosting Local Industry: Encouraging local manufacturing will create jobs, stimulate economic growth, and reduce dependence on imports, ensuring a reliable supply of essential healthcare products.

Enhancing Quality and Innovation: Regulatory harmonisation and market shaping will drive innovation and quality improvement in the local healthcare industry.

Strengthening Health Systems: By addressing underinvestment and regulatory challenges, the EO will strengthen Nigeria’s health system, improving service delivery and health outcomes, and enhancing resilience to future health crises.

Lauding the initiative, the NAFDAC DG said in the statement that the President’s EO “underscores his administration’s commitment to transforming Nigeria’s health sector.”

“It aligns with the broader objectives of the NHSRII and the Presidential Initiative on Healthcare Value Chain (PVAC), approved in October 2023. By addressing core challenges and providing a clear path for improvement, this EO sets the stage for a sustainable and high-quality healthcare system for all Nigerians,” Adeyeye added.

She lauded the Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Prof. Mohammed Ali Pate, and the Coordinating Minister of State for Health and Social Welfare, Dr. Tunji Alausa, who, according to him, “put the interest of the 200 million plus Nigerians before their own interest.”



https://punchng.com/nafdac-lauds-tinubus-executive-order-on-healthcare/?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=social

To curb the surge in kidnappings across the country, the Nigeria Police Force has procured advanced tactical equipment to enhance its tracking capabilities.

This is as new data revealed that no fewer than 1,290 people may have been kidnapped in the country since the beginning of the year.

The figure, according to an investigation by Saturday PUNCH, further confirms the high rate of abductions for ransom in Nigeria.

The figure was derived from an analysis of Nextier’s Nigeria Violent Conflict Database reports, published between January 1 and June 22, 2024.

Nextier, an Africa-focused multi-competency public sector advisory firm, provides weekly reports in a database that collates media-reported violent conflicts across Nigeria.

Earlier this year, some civil society groups, under the aegis of the Civil Society Joint Action Group, said no fewer than 17,469 Nigerians were abducted between 2019 and 2023.

This was even as the Executive Director of the Civil Society Legislative and Advocacy Centre, Auwal Rafsanjani, said insecurity had persisted in the country, with 24,816 Nigerians killed and 15,597 persons abducted throughout the two terms of President Buhari.

Rafsanjani said 90 per cent of the 17,469 cases were recorded under Buhari, while 10 per cent were recorded during the last six months of 2023 under President Tinubu.

However, Saturday PUNCH gathered from Nextier’s insecurity database that between January 1 and June 22, 2024, no fewer than 1,290 Nigerians were kidnapped across the country.

The database also revealed that about 800 people were kidnapped between July 2023 and December 2023 under the current administration.

This implies that the number of kidnapped victims has increased by 490, which is 61 per cent more than the number of victims abducted during the last six months of 2023.

Reacting to the steady rise in crime, the NPF said the Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, had recently acquired tactical equipment to tackle the scourge of kidnapping across Nigeria.

The NPF’s spokesperson, Muyiwa Adejobi, disclosed this to our correspondent on Friday, noting that ransom payments had made kidnapping a lucrative business in the country.

He said, “About two weeks ago, the IGP acquired additional tactical equipment to enhance our tracking capability. We do this, but the payment of ransom has made kidnapping a lucrative business.

“We should not allow that. We should discourage it, so that many young people will not venture into this criminal act. Let us see it as a criminal offence.”

He also lamented that the payment of ransoms had encouraged criminals to continue abducting people.

Adejobi said the police had been educating Nigerians on the danger of paying ransom.

He said, “We have been educating Nigerians not to make kidnapping a lucrative business. We have been educating people through various media, forums, and lectures. Even religious platforms are being used to educate Nigerians not to pay ransom. Kidnapping is not a business; it is a criminal act.

“Kidnappers always work on the psyche of the relatives of their victims. Kidnappers tell the relatives that if they talk to the police or other security agencies, they would kill their loved ones. But, it’s not so. The reason for kidnapping is to make ends meet.

“A kidnapper wants money. Any incident where the victim is killed is not about ransom or kidnapping. We need to widen the scope of that investigation to understand the psychology of that crime.

“Every kidnapper demands ransom, because it’s a business. We don’t want people to just play to the gallery of these kidnappers who work on their psyche to make them pay. They need to talk to us (Police) in confidence.

“There are many things we tell our people that we don’t want to be in the public domain. There are security measures to curb kidnapping. It is not all the time that we put these things in the public domain. But, they should always work with us.

“When they work with us, we know how to go about it. Our tactical equipment and devices are very functional. We have been using them to apprehend kidnappers, and we’ve been arresting them in large numbers. I don’t want Nigerians or the relatives of victims to believe that we are incapacitated and unable to rescue any victim.”

Speaking with Saturday PUNCH, the Director-General of the Institute of Professional Security, Tony Ofoyetan, stressed that kidnapping should first be recognised as an illegal business and a major means of terrorism financing, which could have devastating effects on people’s psychology.

He noted that the Nigerian Communication Commission had the capacity to track the locations of kidnappers from their phone calls, adding that security operatives should comb all the forests in the villages, as kidnappers had turned them into their hideouts.

He said, “The solutions are always with the government. That’s just the truth, but whether they have the political will to implement those solutions is a different thing entirely. Kidnapping is a business, albeit an illegal one. If we identify the fact that it is an illegal business, and that it has an effect on the psychology of people, both individually and nationally, we will see that it is as devastating as terrorism. Incidentally, many times, they also work together, because kidnapping is one of the major means through which terrorism is financed globally. There are different approaches to curbing it, and it includes the use of technology.

“We’ve been hearing about the Bank Verification Number, National Identity Number, and others. I can assure you that the NCC has the capacity to track any phone or communication device, whether it is switched on or off, and they know the exact location of where such calls are coming from. The issue is whether they are going to go all out against such perpetrators, except if it is a kidnapping that has political undertone.”

Also speaking on the issue, a security consultant and Fellow of the Institute of Security, Nigeria, Chigozie Ubani, said there was a critical need for a comprehensive approach to national security.

He noted that despite repeated recommendations to the Federal Government, current efforts were ineffective.

Ubani lamented the cycle of arrests, detentions, and subsequent bail of suspects without addressing the underlying social and economic factors contributing to insecurity.

He said, “We are running a reactionary police system. When it happens, we then move. We arrest people, detain them, and later bail them. The other day, we charged them to court. It’s just reactionary. What we’ve not done is to look at the social and economic angles to security. We might be lucky, but if not, we might have a bloody situation, because people are hungry. This is one of our major problems.”


https://punchng.com/kidnapping-spree-police-upgrade-tracking-system-as-1290-abducted-in-2024/?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=social

Proud Nigerians doing great thing

eastcoast100:
When have u people started aligning with south South?? u don't know ur boundaries anymore? Nothing relates south west with south South.. Continue to asslick ur slave masters fulani

Nothing relate Urohobo, Annang, Ibibio or Itsekiris in the south south with Igbos in the south east.

Good move by the president

God bless Tinubu

God bless the south west and the south south

God bless the north

God bless Nigerians

God bless Nigeria.

Hezzyluv:
I no dey talk about oil alone. Do you know Nigeria still has undiscovered resources hitherto?

There are also undiscovered resources in China.

Stephenmouka4:
Seriously una no get shame
With the downward trajectory the country is going
You still dey reason vote ur master
If no be bias and ethnicity wetin we go call this one?
Anyways ur master has less than three years to prove doubters wrong
Which I don't think he will tho

Let's vote atiku in 2027 for a better Nigeria

k

Hezzyluv:
If to sey Chinese dey richly blessed like Nigeria, na only God know wetin dem for don become for this world.

China is more blessed than Nigeria... China is an oil producer and they produce more oil than Nigeria.

Stephenmouka4:
only Yoruba people will vote tibunu in 2027
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Smartcitizen:
Why will you Care?

You are a SLAVE?

Why are you pushing me to pronounce it ?

Two things is expected of you

1) SUPPORTING

2) SUFFERING

You can't do anything more.


That's your thoughts, your future and nothing more.

k

Unperturbedpota:
Booboo cry me a river. Next time check your nonsense in your head before spewing trash..

Seun

Mynd44

fergie001

Unperturbedpota has broken rule 2

Ojuntana:
But he asked a valid question.

You guys posed as patriots for 8 years and supported Buhari all through only to turn against him at the tail end of his tenure.

You guys supported all his economic and governance blunders such as border closure, twitter ban, nepotism, wastage and borrowing.

Today, it is hard to see a Buhari supporter on the streets of NL.

There's one Wizard moniker on another thread who is writing epistles about how Buhari and Jonathan destroyed Nigeria before Tinubu.

I'm sure the hands behind that keyboard once typed Sai Baba and wrote similar epistles on how Buhari is fixing PDP's 16 years of rot.

Today, Buhari's 8 years has been lumped along with PDP's 16 years of rot!!

How come? How did you people turn coats so easily without any iota of remorse?

I'm still studying it for a PhD thesis.

How did Buhari supporters all through 8 years suddenly began blaming him after he left office?

You will explain till 2031

criuze:
Arab spring went as far Nigeria and other west africa

Conflict spills like kerosene

The best is to avoid it

Don't use your mouth to draw lines for them on nairaland

Meanwhile the government is blaming ipob while the struggle for Biafra started before them

Alot of armed groups are in the race, with positions in every part of the east

That's how the violence spread, if you hear gunshots in oshodi who will to you blame, the frustration is every where

Yoruba pretends everything is alright but, hoping japa is the answer , but unexpected thing might trigger harsh event there.

Stop worshiping non performing leaders and shout out for your deliverance and your future

You will explain till 2031

Smartcitizen:
We are in support as long as YORUBAS WILL CONTINUE SUFFERING AND STRUGGLING THROUGHOUT THIS PERIOD.

WHAT ARE SLAVES FOR?

THEY ARE THERE TO SUFFER SO THAT' THEIR MASTER WILL ENJOY.

DO YOU WORK ABEG.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I don't care about all that... The only thing that matters to me is for Tinubu to rule Nigeria till may 29 2031

vengertime:
Choose one and stopping being a chameleon. SS or SW.

Mumu

Seun

Mynd44

fergie001

vengertime has broken rule 2

vengertime:
Choose one and stopping being a chameleon. SS or SW.

Mumu

South west and south south

Smartcitizen:
WE SUPPORTER IT AS LONG AS HE WILL MAKE AN AVERAGE YORUBAS BECOME A LORRY FOODSTUFFS ROBBER WE ARE HAPPY.

NA UNA DEY VOTE,

NA UNA DEY PROTEST,

NA UNA DEY ATTACK LORRY LOADED WITH FOODSTUFFS,

NA UNA COME DEY DIE FOR RICE SHARING STAMPED IN LAGOS.


OH GOD MAY WE NEVER HAVE THIS KIND OF PRESIDENT ABEG O!

INSTEAD MAKE WE DEY LIKE THIS O!

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Tinubu a Yoruba man will rule Nigeria till may 29 2031

Unperturbedpota:
You sound so stupid, like an illiterate

Seun

Mynd44

fergie001

Unperturbedpota has broken rule 2

Smartcitizen:
Coward!

Three Obas were killed same day and same time in your region by fulani bandits but you never said fiiim!

It has never happened anywhere in Nigeria before where three kings will be killed same day and nothing happened.

Anyway, I just remembered that they are your nightmares, your leader recently asked WHERE ARE THE COW'S?

Tinubu a Yoruba man will rule Nigeria till may 29 2031

Memphitz357:
Utter fools to be precise..... e.g Paraman

Seun

Mynd44

fergie001

Memphitz357 has broken rule 2

Anioma will never be part of the south east

helinues:
Why is it so difficult for most of the Obidients to express themselves without attacking others ?

Where on this crust such kind of attitude ever won a election?

Abeg, Obidients should try and be cultured

When you attack them back, they will claim you hate them... They spew bile and hate but expect people to not reciprocate

MatrixReloaded:
No nah. You got to choose one. I know you are a Beneficiary of nddc stipend and you are from kogi.

IPOB should limit their madness to the south east... They shouldn't bring their madness to the south west or south south.