Health experts have called on stakeholders in the health sector and governments to take advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic to reverse the growing trend of medical tourism by Nigerians. Stating this during the Ernst and Young (EY) Healthcare Webinar held recently, they said the pandemic has accelerated the world’s path to a digital age, as well as improved the adoption of telemedicine even in Nigeria. Sharing his thoughts, the Director, Consulting, EY West Africa, Dr Tosin Oshinubi said: “There are five main forces driving the disruption and convergence we are seeing in the healthcare sector and they include; increased healthcare…
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It is no longer news that COVID-19 will leave a serious public health crisis in its wake long after it has gone; an open knowledge that has ensured attention globally is shifting to concretising local and international health partnerships that focus on not just how to successfully contain or tackle the virus, but, more importantly, to ensure that life saving and essential health delivery services are sustained and maintained to entrench a robust system that enhances lessons learnt from the pandemic. Like other developing countries, Nigeria now, more than ever, has to seriously confront the challenge of creating a modern…
With the status and influence he wields in the society, only cynics would attempt to underrate the personality of upwardly mobile and cerebral lawyer, Kayode Ajulo. His towering image readily dwarfs any untoward mischief anyone might want to play with it. The wide acceptance the amiable dandy dude enjoys did not fall on his laps, but a result of certain qualities he’s held unto that includes hardword work, consistency, honesty and humility abundantly laced with the grace of God. This former Board Chairman of Ondo State Radio vision Corporation, OSRC, boasts of a profile that is no doubt intimidating. As…
A Non-Governmental Organisation, Global Social Mobilisation Foundation, has organised a special prayer summit to seek God’s intervention in the rise of violent crimes across the country. The foundation’s National President, Chaplain John Lawal Isyaku-Guga who organised the prayer summit in Danja Local Government Area of Katsina State, with the theme ‘Prayer of Patriotic Nigerians’, stressed the need for both Muslims and Christians to continue to dwell in harmony, do good to each other and be their brothers’ keepers. According to him, “If peaceful co-existence exists between the two major religions it will go a long way in bringing more development…
The Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Mr. Adeniyi Adebayo, has assured the Organised Private Sector of Nigeria (OPSN) that the federal government would soon announce series of stimulus packages that would assist operators in the private sector to withstand the COVID-19 propelled severe economic wind on businesses. Adebayo revealed that 40 per cent of the expected stimulus would be reserved for women owned businesses, including the N50 billion survival funds for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) and the N15 billion Guaranteed Uptake Scheme that is meant to save 500,000 jobs. A press release that was issued by the…
The Katsina State Coalition of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) has urged the State House of Assembly to, as a matter of urgency, investigate the alleged misappropriation of N52.6 billion security vote by Governor Aminu Bello Masari. The CSOs, in a letter addressed to the Speaker of the Assembly by its Chairman, Muhammad Ruwangodiya and made available to journalists Friday, admonished the lawmakers to carry out independent investigation to ascertain the authenticity of the allegation. A Katsina Business Mogul, Mr. Mahdi Shehu, had in a press conference in Kaduna accused Governor Masari of misappropriating N52.6 billion security vote. He said the…
Nigeria’s total public debt portfolio, all the states and the federal government inclusive, stood at N28.63 trillion as at March 31 this year. According to the Nigerian Domestic and Foreign Debt Q1 2020 report released yesterday by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), the total public debt rose by 4.48 per cent compared to the N27.40 trillion recorded in Q4 2019. External debt accounted for N9.99 trillion or 34.89 per cent of the total debt. The domestic component stood at N18.64 trillion or 65.11 per cent of total borrowing. Of the domestic debt of N18.64 trillion, federal government’s share alone…
Nigeria’s former Minister of Finance and the country’s candidate for the position of Director General, World Trade Organisation (WTO), is expected to make a presentation to the General Council of the organisation on July 15. According to the WTO’s timelines for the selection of a successor to its departing Director-General, Roberto Azevêdo, Okonjo-Iweala will be the second candidate to face the General Council, after Mexico’s candidate, Jesus Seade Kuri. There are eight candidates jostling for the plum job, and they will all make presentations to WTO’s General Council between July 15 and 17. The global trade body said in a…
The former Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mr. Ibrahim Magu, has, through his lawyer, demanded his immediate release on bail from custody. On the same day, the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami confirmed the ongoing probe of Magu, and announced that President Muhammadu Buhari had approved the immediate suspension of Magu. Magu’s tenure as the boss of the EFCC was characterised by large scale abuse of human rights, with reckless detention of suspects. Even when suspects got bails, they are sometimes rearrested at court premises and dumped into detention by…
In a bid to move forward the education sector in the diocese of Abuja Anglican Communion, the bishop of Abuja and primate of the church of Nigeria his grace the Most Rev’d Henry Ndukuba constituted and inaugurated a 12-man committee on the 15th of June 2020 to act as the Abuja diocesan Education task force. The group gathers once again to deliberate on a way forward for the education sector in the diocese Abuja.