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Health

“Train doctors for free, make them work in Nigeria for 9yrs before migrating”, Ngige urges Rep members

Aminu Imam

The Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, has urged the House of Representatives to make provisions to stop medical doctors from emigrating to other countries after schooling for free in Nigeria. Ngige disclosed this on Wednesday, in a statement released by the Deputy Director, Press and Public Relations of the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment, Charles Akpan. According to the Minister at the 2022 Budget Defence, if the Government should train doctors for free, they should be able to keep them by insisting that they serve the…

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SERAP files suit to stop President Buharis N26bn budget on food, travels, others

Aminu Imam

Says it surpasses allocations for 14 teaching hospitals The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, (SERAP), has instituted a lawsuit against President Muhammadu Buhari over the N26 billion budgetary allocation for meals, travels, sitting allowance, welfare package, and office building. This was contained in a statement issued by the SERAP Deputy Director, Kolawole Oluwadare, yesterday. The suit was filed last Friday on behalf of the group by its lawyers, Kolawole Oluwadare and Ms. Adelanke Aremo. According to SERAP, The government would continue to borrow to fund the countrys budget until there…

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Medical expert worries over rising drug abuse among youths

Aminu Imam

A medical doctor with Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital, Benin City, in Edo State, Obumneme Chinweuba, has expressed concern over the alarming rate of substance abuse among young persons and its ability to trigger mental illness. Chiweuba, who is the President, Association of Resident Doctors, Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital, Benin chapter, disclosed to newsmen in Benin City, said that about 60 to 70% of daily mental illness cases presented to the hospital are connected with substance abuse, describing it as“bad, because many of these substances are dangerous to mental and physical health”. The medical…

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FG announces updated Covid-19 travel protocol

Aminu Imam

The Federal Government has released the revised travel protocol into Nigeria effective from Monday, 25th October, 2021. Chairman of the Presidential Steering Committee and Secretary to Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, issued a statement yesterday. The SGF said travellers arriving in Nigeria must present a negative Covid-19 PCR test result conducted not more than 72 hours before boarding. Henceforth, unvaccinated and partially vaccinated in-bound passengers will be required to observe a mandatory 7-day self-isolation, in addition to a Covid-19 PCR test on Day 2 and 7 after arrival. However,…

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Covid-19 travel ban: Nigeria removes S/Africa, Turkey, Brazil from list of restricted countries

Aminu Imam

The Federal Government has removed South Africa, Brazil and Turkey from the list of restricted countries with an embargo placed on inbound non-Nigerian passengers. According to the Chairman of the Presidential Steering Committee (PSC) on Covid-19, Boss Mustapha, the decision was taken after a careful review of the pandemic situation in the three countries. Over several months, four countries were placed on high-level restrictions for travellers from such countries. The PSC has, after a review of the developments in these countries, decided to remove South Africa, Turkey, and Brazil from…

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UK relaxes rules for fully vaccinated travellers from Nigeria

Aminu Imam

The United Kingdom has reviewed its travel protocols for travellers from Nigeria who have taken their complete jabs of the COVID-19 vaccines approved by authorities in the country. This was announced in a statement by the British High Commission yesterday. From Monday, October 11, 2021, fully vaccinated travellers from Nigeria will be able to come to England without needing to provide a pre-departure test, undertake a day 8 test or self-isolate for 10 days, although will still need to book and pay for a day 2 test, the statement read…

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WHO endorses groundbreaking malaria vaccine for Africa

Aminu Imam

The World Health Organisation, (WHO), says the only approved vaccine against malaria should be widely given to African children, potentially marking a major advance against a disease that kills hundreds of thousands of people annually. According to Reuters, the WHO recommendation is for RTSS or Mosquirix a vaccine developed by British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline (GSK.L). Since 2019, 2.3 million doses of Mosquirix have been administered to infants in Ghana, Kenya and Malawi in a large-scale pilot programme coordinated by the WHO. The majority of those whom the disease kills…

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Just In: JOHESU suspends threat to shutdown healthcare services

Aminu Imam

The Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU) and Assembly of Healthcare Professional Associations, (AHPA), have suspended their threat to shut down healthcare services in the country. The unions had earlier threatened to disrupt normal services in hospitals and other health care facilities across the country over Federal Governments inability to meet their members’ demands. The JOHESU Acting General National Secretary, Matthew Ajorutu, disclosed this in a communique issued on behalf of the JOHESU National Chairman on Tuesday, in Abuja. Ajorutu said the decision to put on hold their planned industrial action…

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Resident doctors suspend 63 days old strike

Aminu Imam

To resume work Wednesday The National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD), has suspended its 63-day-old industrial action after long hours of deliberation with her National Executive Council, (NEC), members. Recall that NARD had on August 2, 2021, embarked on an industrial action over irregular payment of salaries, among other issues. Efforts of different stakeholders, including President Muhammadu Buhari and the House of Representatives, to ensure the resident doctors shelve the strike did not yield the desired result. The National Industrial Court, in a ruling on a suit filed by the…

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Health workers to begin indefinite strike September 30

Aminu Imam

The Joint Health Sector Unions, (JOHESU) and the Assembly of Healthcare Professional Associations (AHPA), have stated that members across the country would commence an indefinite strike on Thursday, September 30. The unions also urged the Federal Government to implement agreements made by the parties. The unions made this known in a statement, tagged We are not strike-mongers, Act now on our 15-days fresh strike notice before it is too late and signed by its National Chairman Comrade Biobelemoye Josiah, which was made available to newsmen yesterday. The statement read: We…

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