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TonyOputa:
In 2015, Nigeria’s Infant Mortality rate was estimated at 78.7 deaths per 1000 live births. 2 years after that, Nigeria ranked No.9 on the list of countries with the highest rate of infant Mortality Rate. (CIA World Facts)

Infant mortality is the death of an infant before his or her first birthday. The infant mortality rate is the number of infant deaths for every 1,000 live births. (CDC.gov)

Aside from Infant Mortality, another area of concern is Maternal Mortality.

In 2015, Nigeria’s estimated maternal mortality ratio was over 800 maternal deaths per 100 000 live births, with approximately 58 000 maternal deaths during that year. By comparison, the total number of maternal deaths in 2015 in the 46 most developed countries was 1700, resulting in a maternal mortality ratio of 12 maternal deaths per 100 000 live births. In fact, a Nigerian woman has a 1 in 22 lifetime risk of dying during pregnancy, childbirth or postpartum/post-abortion; whereas in the most developed countries, the lifetime risk is 1 in 4900. (WHO.it)

A look at the statistics above shows that there is more to do as regards Mother and Child Care health.

Towards the end of the last administration, the State Government in an agreement with the Niger Delta Development Commission NDDC planned on the Construction of a Mother and Child Hospital which was intended as a joint ownership between the State Government and the NDDC. Funds where said to have been released by the then government in power. However, the project was stalled and abandoned as NDDC failed on their part to provide its own counterpart funding.

With Gov. Wike coming to power in 2015, and with the many legal tussle that ensued till 2016, the Governor announced in the late part of 2016 that the State Government was cancelling its Joint Ownership Agreement with NDDC for their failure in paying their counterpart funds. He also stated that the State Government was taking over full funding of the project and the final tranche of payment for the completion of the project had been made to the contractor.

Due to the Governor’s desire to see to the speedily completion of the facility, Governor Wike also went on to release over 70 percent of the funding need for the purchase of equipment for the said Hospital.

The Ultra-modern Mother and Child Hospital in Port Harcourt is aimed at providing specialised services in the areas of Mother and Childcare. The magnitude of the facility is deliberately constructed to serve the need of the state in that regards.

Apart from the Ultra-modern Mother and Child Hospital, the NEW Administration have made many interventions in the health sector.

From the establishment of a Medical School in the Rivers State University, to the upgrading of the former Braithwaite Memorial Specialist Hospital to the Rivers State University Teaching Hospital with an investment of $10Million in purchased medical equipment. The massive intervention in the renovation of otherwise moribund secondary healthcare institutions in the state with the simultaneous rehabilitation of several General Hospitals, the Construction of Magnificent Dima Denni-Fiberesima Doctors Quarters and the approval of the implementation of the corrected Consolidated Medical Salary Scale for doctors in Rivers State service.

The Government also embarked on the Construction of 4 Multi-Storey Regional Referral Hospitals in Bori, Degema, Okehi and Omoku, and also saw to the reconstruction, furnishing, and equipping of some of General Hospitals across variously LGAs of the state.

Heath is a priority as far as human existence is concerned and the “NEW” Administration has treated it in same manner. Governor Wike also hinted on the Government’s plan to construct an international Specialist Hospital during a visit to him by the National President, Nigerian Medical Association. He said that the proposed New Specialist Hospital will promote medical tourism in Rivers State. According to the Governor, the new specialist hospital will have a helipad, modern equipment for the treatment of cancer, kidney, heart and liver diseases. It is aimed at stemming foreign trips by Nigerians for healthcare services hereby conserving foreign exchange for the country.

The commitment of the “NEW” administration in the area of healthcare is one without doubts as empirical evidence abound. However, with the administration having 3 more years to go, we hope and look forward to further interventions and development in the sector.


Ugochukwu Oputa (@UgoOputa) writes from Port Harcourt.

13 percent derivation fund, nddc, ministry of niger delta affairs, biggest fg allocation yet nothing to show from Niger delta states and we continue to celebrate mediocrity

Run a paternity test on your kids ,first things first.

paulolee:
lolz...if u want to argue choose were to start from and i would counter u easily with the numbers
1..wan bissaka, pogba, fernandez, rashford vs man city's walker, fernandinho, de bryne and aguero or g.jesus who is better
2..man.u won city all 3 games means u are better than city
3...martial is better than benzema or have a better goal record than benzema
guy wich kain talk be all this naa
na wr u want start from, make i enter you..

1.on currently form ,wan bisaka is far better than Walker, pogba is way ahead of fernandinho, as a coach you can't tell me you would pick fernandinho ahead of pogba, and on current form Fernandes is ahead of debrunye, no thanks to de bruyne injury woes, if as a coach you want to tell me you would pick aguero ahead of rashford that means something is wrong somewhere, aguero wey dey chop bench currently.
2.yes and I stand to be corrected man utd is better than mancity comparing them head to head and moreover if city were that good they wouldn't lose three games to utd in a season.
3.and on benzema and martial, abeg to check their stats, no need for noise

paulolee:
hat trick wey cr7 and lionel take de use play in just one season.
forget those two aliens, a big club like man.u is supposed to have quality wingers and strikers like benzema, suarez lewandowski, sallah, mane and even auba to bang goals for them all week and not supposed to wait for 7yrs to get hat trick from thier attackers, man.u jus have money but can't make good signings and i do think if this the same man.u that once had cr7, tevez, rooney, nani, berbertov, saha in its ranks,
i jus pray they get things right because they cant challenge the star studded man.city and talented Liverpool to the tittle next season with this joke they call a squad
i stand to be corrected, thier best player in man.u cant easily walk into this man.city squad...
.nice coming from martial even if generally he haven't impressed me considering all the hype that surrounded him before that transfer from monaco,
i remember the overhyping english media even called him the next henry after his first goal and we are still waiting since then..

you are only just bias in your analysis, all top clubs experienced what manutd is currently experiencing, which even seem coming to an end seeing the prospect of the current coach, on comparing both team players, man utd currently have some of the best players in their positions currently, the likes of wan bisaka, the left back player, pogba, Fernandes, rashford would effortlessly bench any player in the same position in man city, manutd has met the same mancity thrice this season and your almighty mancity couldn't win just one game ,they were beaten thrice by manutd even in some cases with depleted Squad, this is change of an era for manutd, its isn't been easy falling in line since Ferguson left which is normal in the world of football, on martial, dude was never over hyped ,injury blighted him and check his records, it's been fair except when Mourinho was in charge, Mourinho just didn't use him and injury didn't help too, go and check the almighty benzema's average goal per season and check martial's before you start comparing them

Chidonc:
Thank you. I actually don't take their comments to heart. Do I blame them, NO. When you are raised by healthy parents you turn out great. When you are raised in a toxic family you most times turn out toxic. If your father always beats up your mum, it won't be a surprise if you do same to your wife and vice versa. From most of the comments, you can deduce the kind of family they are coming out from.

so your good parents raised you to believe it's cool to call people's mum and sisters prostitutes over flimsy arguments abi?

Islie:
https://dailypost.ng/2020/06/24/mans-suicide-attempt-at-ogun-river-in-abeokuta-aborted/

see some wads of cash and he still went ahead to attempt suicide, me I go just take one bottle of star and forget everything first, depression is real o, reach out to somebody today .

Quote me after the game,this is sure 3-0 ,I have seen the match somewhere yesterday .

punisha:
Some Of your points don't add up....
3,21,22 and 26.

I always text fast. Faster when I'm about to sting.
I've cried with people in my past and I don't wanna hear about them currently. Some just needed support then and not meant to be part of ur life.
Introverts sexually wild? Smh
I know someone who swears a lot and never says the truth....

and you expect all these to apply to everybody even if they are facts?

Douglaufuoma:
we can't have father and mother at home while uncle and aunties will be busy addressing the children, it is an abomination. the media aide can address us if they travel out of the country not when they are at home

that means you started following govt proceedings recently, Chukwuemeka Chikelu and the rest did this during Obasanjo, labaran maku did almost the work of info minister and special adviser and all of that,this is not different, you should be worried about what comes out of the meeting not who convenes the message to the public ,that's normal except you just want to rant unnecessarily to get noticed .

Douglaufuoma:
what is happening to this country, did we vote for media assistance or media aid. why can't we hear directly from the once we vote, those people supporting this evil should consider the future because one dump minister just few days ago criticise the same government he once sees as a holy body. if they are not cable of ruling use then we should be informed rather than to play hide and seek games with us. God bless Nigeria the land of my birth and my father/motherland, you will rise again to fulfil what u destine to become

I wonder what the media aids would be doing, you think every govt official has time for Twitter like Donald Trump?

Still yet the common man won't feel the impact when finally implemented, na wa for Nigeria and bad govt.

majamajic:
They committed offense , this case is different , payment was made

Na the borther closure still dey pain them

which offence did they commit?

I Ilegend wetin dey occur na, make you do release the book on PayPal na

If you know you didn't complain but support when wike and obaseki were busy destroying properly documented houses ,dont come here to complain o

quote author=osydennyz post=90940965] Good decision from the aspirants....let them test their popularity at the primaries .....The truth is Obaseki has a better chance with his achievement in less than 4 years as governor. The following are a list of some achievements of the Governor Godwin Obaseki-Led Government
grouped under the six thematic pillars of the state:

1) Economic Revolution
2) Infrastructural Development
3) Institutional Reforms
4) Social Welfare Enhancement
5) Environmental Sustainability
6) Culture and Tourism


1. ECONOMIC REVOLUTION

• Edo Job Initiative; over 150,000 beneficiaries
• Establishment of Edo Innovation Hub, popularly referred to as “The South-South Silicon
Valley”; over 22,000 beneficiaries
• Creation of Edo Production Center to drive industrial development and create jobs
• Launch of Edo State Oil Palm Program (ESOPP); N69 billion committed by the CBN
• 10,000 hectares across 3 senatorial districts adopted for rice production
• Remodeling and re-equipping of the Government Science and Technical College (GSTC)


2. INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT

• Emotan Garden Housing; 100 out of 1,440 units completed
• Establishment of Jara Mall
• New automated model for revenue collection; implementation of the Edo Revenue
Administrative System (ERAS)
• Ugboha/Uromi and Auchi water projects
• Construction of the Edo State Secretariat complex, Block C and Block D has been
completed.
• Construction/Renovation of roads across the 3 senatorial districts of the state including;
368 road contracts awarded; 274 road projects completed including:
Construction of Lucky Way
- Irhirhi-Aruogba-Obazagbon-Ogheghe Road
- Rehabilitation of Secretariat Road, Igarra
- Textile Mill Road (ongoing)
- Ugbor-Amagba (ongoing)
- Ekaewan Road (ongoing)
- Road construction project at Obakhavbaye (ongoing).
- Rehabilitation of Uzebba-Ukpoje-Akagbor Road
- Construction of Orhodua Bridge
• Reduced cost of Certificates of Occupancy to N50,000
• Renovation of High Court Complex
• Tayo Akpata University, Abudu Campus (ongoing)
• Ossiomo Power Plant; 55 megawatt capacity (ongoing)
• Azura-Edo 461 MW open cycle gas turbine power station
• Inauguration of Benin River Port, Gelegele project
• Creation of Edo Modular Refinery (ongoing)
• Construction of Ikpoba River dam
• Establishment of Benin Enterprise Park (ongoing)
• Renovation of Oba Akenzua Cultural Center
• Construction of Judges Quarters (ongoing)
• Construction of the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Iguoriakhi (ongoing)
• Laying of fiber optic for faster internet speeds with collaboration with MainOne; 450km
street by street fibre deployed in Benin City.
• Construction of modern car park.(ongoing)


3. INSTITUTIONAL REFORMS

• Wabizigan launched: launch of new security architecture and implementation of Security
Management Information System.
• Implementation of State Integrated Financial Management Information System (SIFMIS)

• Development and passage of a consolidated Public Financial Management (PFM) and
Fiscal Responsibility Act (FRA) for better financial management.
• Inauguration of Industrial Court in Edo State.
• Implementation of Treasury Single Account (TSA) policy for better control of
Government’s resources.
• New and better EDSTMA: The Edo State Traffic Control and Management Agency
(EDSTMA) has been revamped and repositioned for better service delivery to citizens.
• Contributory Pension Scheme for local government workers established.
• Eradication Community Development Associations (CDA’s) from our communities and
stopped Agberos from collecting revenues for Edo State Government.
• Creation of online website "EdoMonitorMe" Portal for transparency and monitoring of
projects.


4. SOCIAL WELFARE ENHANCEMENT

• Edo Basic Education Sector Transformation (EDOBEST) programme: implementation of
modern teaching techniques and technology.
• Over 11,000 teachers trained across the state
• Edo State Sports Commission Bill passed into law and Edo State Sports Commission
established
• Over a million textbooks distributed across the state
• Establishment of Edo State Task Force on Human Trafficking to curb irregular migration
and human trafficking
• Launch of Edo State Health Insurance Scheme to quality and affordable health care
services for citizens.
• Twenty primary healthcare centers revamped.
• New Central Hospital opened
• Renovation and facilities upgrade of Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium
• Violence against Persons Bill has been signed into law to addres


5. ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY

•Commencement of reclamation of erosion damaged embankment along Upper Mission
Road by Temboga.
• Remediation measures in Auchi through the Nigeria Erosion Watershed Management
Project (NEWMAP).
• Operation Clean up Edo Project has put in place to prevent indiscriminate dumping of
waste


6. CULTURE AND TOURISM

• Successful hosting of the 2019 National Festival for Arts and Culture.
• Reintroduction of Culture Clubs in public schools


GOVERNOR GODWIN OBASEKI’S ACHIEVEMENTS IN THE FIGHT AGAINST
COVID – 19
SCREENING AND TESTING

• Primary Health-care centres spread across the 18 LGAs, with 62 designated screening
centres
• Private Health-care centres across Benin City with 40 designated as screening centres
across Benin City.
• Mobile Screening centres across 6 LGAs, with 78 Screening point spread across respective
wards: 12 wards respectively in Oredo and Etsako-West LGA, 10 wards respectively in
Egor, Ikpoba-Okha, Esan West and Ovia North-East LGA.
• 64,200 persons have been screened via mobile screening centres, with 2,361 suspected
cases with samples collected. 51% Male screened and 49% Female.
• 212,000 persons screened via the fixed screening centres (Private and Primary Health-care
Total of 276,200 persons screened so far.


FACILITIES
• Setting up and equipping of 3 isolation facilities in Stella-Obasanjo Hospital, University of
Benin Teaching Hospital, and Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital.
• Purchase and installat of 2 new PCR machines at Stella-Obasanjo Hospital and University
of Benin Teaching Hospital.
• Purchase 18,000 Rapid Testing Kit (RTK).
• Acquisition of 4 Autoclave machines
• Establishment a Covid-19 support call centre to manage questions and quarries from
citizens.
• Upgrade of Emergency Operation Center (EOC) at the Hospital Management Board
complex with support from the USAid department carried out an
TRAINING
• Training of 4,218 health personnel to effectively fight the COVID-19.
• Special training to be organized for Helpline call attendants. Public health experts to be
included as trainers.
MOTIVATION
• H.E Godwin Obaseki approved a hazard allowance ranging from N90,000 to N300,000 for
frontline health worker.[/quote]lol,shey na edo state were we dey all this project dey ? Everything about this governor is audio, were are we going in this nation if renovation of Oba akenzua center as achievement? Inauguration of gelegele seaport ? Wetin dat one mean? Gelegele seaport that hundreds of millions were embezzled for soil testing, an average edo man hasn't benefitted from this govt, stop typing all these nonsense in celebrating mediocrity, yahaya Bello in his first time did more than this

FuckTheWorld:


NIGERIANS and celebration of mediocrity.

500k seedlings
Something a small private farm can boast of.
Useless people.

Akwa ibom of one of the states getting the highest FG allocations monthly with little or almost nothing to show for it.

In a sane country, with the amount Akwa ibom receives every month, Akwa ibom SHOULD be as developed as Johannesburg, Addis Ababa at least.

This useless old fool generation leaders are complete failures.

spot on, they even receive the highest

EngineerBode:
They don't have to be at the same place at a time. In trying to support your party, try to have sense. Can't they come in batches, vote and go? You people sef. You drop you ability to think just to support a party for peanuts.

Note: I work for the Lagos state government which is an APC government. I have seen APC in and out. So quit mentioning me

na wa for you o, somebody asked a simple question that needs just a logical answer you started calling the person names, that act alone tells a lot of difference between both of you, it shows who's older and wiser and a lot more, and the level of maturity without even meeting both of you .
Now to your argument, are you trying to say direct primary were maximum 18 persons maintaining social distance as recommended by ncdc is worse than indirect primary where hundreds to thousands of people, from different places ,both where the virus is rampant to where its nonexistent to converge in one place ? This method should be encouraged, it's the best method ,the people are directly involved.

Infrastructure in Nigeria is zero and the other thing is lack of maintenance culture to maintain and keep the little ones that has been done, just come to Abuja, you would be amazed if this is truly the capital city of the giant of Africa, there's no single spectacular structure or thing in the whole Fct .

segzy14:

It depends on the size, design, materials used.
I will attach different types of swimming pool.

a mini family size, at least that can accomodate two or three people comfortably

Akin4sure:
For cost whatsapp me on 09069193297

I'm not writing you on Wattsapp if you can't state what you want to say here, thanks anyways for your concern

Any ideal please?

Like how much will it cost to have a family sized private swimming pool, a mini pool in a compound of 100by100 with a 3 bedroom flat apartment, it's a family of four, husband, wife and two little kids.
I would also like to know the daily or monthly cost for the maintenance and what the routine entails, people with experience in the house Abeg make una help una boy for this matter.

FlordFlorez:
This political pastor with moral indecency is talking. Redeem church should be covered with shame. Recently, their 'daddy go' was publicly saying he would kill 'anyone' that insults his wife. U can imagine that floccinaucinihilipilification statement.

there's nothing wrong in what the man said, if there's a law of no more than twenty people by the governor, why would the same governor go ahead to break the law? So because he's a a redeem pastor he should keep quite when he sees an anomaly? And on Adeboye, stop twisting people's words to suit your interest, that's bad.

Bola146:
No, Google the NHIS address in your state, go there for more information.

alright man, thanks very much.

Bola146:
Loosing someone very dear to you is very bad. May all the pregnant women deliver like Hebrew women. That is why God is dealing with all these leaders with Corona virus, instead of them to take good care of the health sector.

I want to any pregnant women to go and register with NHIS, it's just #20k. Even if its CS during delivery, you will pay the tenth percentage of any amount.

I thought the NHIS scheme is for civil servants only.

Vicvalentine:
There’s nothing we can do about the numbers , they should just open up the country since most people are recovering from the sickness.
The disease is not as deadly as they claim , we can live with it , we’re already doing so, it is now like a norm , we get sick we recover, we go back to hustling.

na wa for you o, see the way you are jumping up and down countering everybody, it's real and the reason for the recent upsurge could be attributed to the recent lackadaisical attitude of Nigerians in taking precautionary measures against the virus and also the change in weather, it's real and I personally kNow two people it has killed in Abuja now tho one from nasarawa state, govt is even underreporting the cases, I just pity the ignorant people you may have been able to convince with this your yeye reasoning , it's real and increasing rapidly, my elder family member is a front line worker in nasarawa state,from the way you are clamoring for the economy to be opened I kNow say money no dey pocket, but remember na who dey alive dey find money, put your yansh for one place make Holy Spirit use you my brother.

Nbote:
Jus dont waste ur data... I listened to 3 tracks and deleted everything all at once

maybe you were expecting to hear the bar spitting Jesse jagz or a pure rap e.p but got dissapointed so I get your point, this is more of a personal project ,he explored different sound, from hip hip, to ragga and Afro tune, he tried, it's a good project if you can listen to it from a neutral point of view.
I will give the project a 5/10.
I just hate how unnecessarily long the songs are.

Thanks bedesipop, ezzycarter, I checked "my way" on YouTube and guess what, the song I was looking for was played few seconds before my way started and the title Is "plan b" and the actual lyrics is "he don't love you as I do, everything I do is for you, he don't, love you as much as I doo"
Yes!!!! The search is over meehhhn.

It's a very old wande coal song, I've been cracking my brain for over a year now to get the song but I can't really get it because I don't remember the title and most part of the lyrics, the few part I remember goes thus : "in as much as I breath/live, everything I do is for you,........ Love you as I love you" somthing like that, Please who knows this song?

Asgard13:
Are you one of those thugs that throw people ware and terrorize poor market women?

ThTs where your friend major

just a simple question, can you make such a baseless and stupid statement with your facebook or instagram account?
It's faceless platforms like this that gives kids and nitwits leverage to spew rubbish anyhow.

Asgard13:
Kabaka and his boys should be held responsible... including his godfather .

Killing 80 year old man for what purposes?

Killer no go reach 80 including their generations..

Nonsense

what sort of stupid statement is this?

EVILFOREST:
UDOM is far far far better than WIKE

udom is the only governor in niger delta as a whole that seem to be trying, with ministry of Niger Delta, NDDC, 13 percent derivation, none of the Niger delta governor can come up with a tangible project to show for all the money there.