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How Firewood Smoke Kills 90,000 Nigerians Annually – Minister

6Oct

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Environment, News, Nigeria

How Firewood Smoke Kills 90,000 Nigerians Annually – Minister

The federal government has said that more than 90,000 people, mainly women and children, die annually from smoke and other complications from firewood. The Minister for Environment, Sharon Ikeazor, disclosed that 70 percent of Nigeria's population still depends solely on fuel wood in meeting their energy needs for cooking and heating. This was said at the 2021 Nigeria clean cooking forum with which was tagged, “Clean Cooking Energy for All in Nigeria – Achieving the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC).” According to Ikeazor, “If current policies are allowed to continue; by 2030, 60 per cent or more of all households in Nigeria will still be cooking with traditional biomass. Dependency on biomass for cooking and or heating purposes increases pressure on local natural resource...

Resident doctors call off strike, to resume Wednesday

4Oct

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Labour, News, Nigeria

Resident doctors call off strike, to resume Wednesday

The National Association of Resident Doctors has suspended its nationwide strike. The strike which began on August 2 has been suspended with effect from 8am, Wednesday, according to the President of the association, Dr Godiya Ishaya. Ishaya, in an interview with our correspondent, said, “We are suspending the strike for six weeks to give room for movement in some of the items we noticed a stalemate. There was a stalemate in the enrollment of our members into the IPPIS and payment of their areas. Read also: I’m Healthy, Just Undergoing Therapy – Tinubu “The government was invoking the trade dispute article 41, that is the ‘no work, no pay.’ And since they have been enrolled into IPPIS, it means there was not going to be any salary into their accounts. Without them being paid, th...

I’m Healthy, Just Undergoing Therapy – Tinubu

3Oct

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

News, Nigeria

I’m Healthy, Just Undergoing Therapy – Tinubu

The National Leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu in a video, said he was healthy but only undergoing physiotherapy in London. He said this while addressing the members of the House of Representatives from the north who paid him a visit in London. Tinubu, who was dressed in Kaftan and a red cap, has been in the United Kingdom for about three months after undergoing knee surgery. He however described the physiotherapy as gruesome. “Because of God and people like you, I am well. It is just the physio (physiotherapy) that is gruesome,” he added. Tinubu’s health had become a subject of controversy of late but in a statement on July 31, 2021, his Media Adviser, Tunde Rahman, said though the former governor was out of Nigeria, he was not hospitalised as cl...

Northern Reps Meet Tinubu in UK, Back 2023 Presidential Bid

3Oct

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Elections, News, Nigeria

Northern Reps Meet Tinubu in UK, Back 2023 Presidential Bid

Amid the rumoured presidential ambition of former Lagos State governor and National Leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, members of the House of Representatives from the north have endorsed his candidacy for 2023 presidency. Though Tinubu has yet to declare his intention to contest any office in 2023, there have been rumours and veiled indications that he might be interested in the exalted seat. A delegation of the northern caucus in the House, led by the Deputy Speaker, Ahmed Wase, had on Friday visited Tinubu in London where he has been receiving treatment for the last three months. On the entourage were the Majority Leader, Alhassan Ado-Doguwa; Chairman, House Committee on Rules and Business, Abubakar Fulata; Chairman, House Committee on the Army...

Tinubu Speaks On UK Treatment, Says Physiotherapy Is ‘Gruesome’

2Oct

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

News, Nigeria

Tinubu Speaks On UK Treatment, Says Physiotherapy Is ‘Gruesome’

The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress and former Lagos State governor, Bola Tinubu, has confirmed that he went through a challenging health condition, saying his “physiotherapy was gruesome.” Tinubu said this while addressing members of the House of Representatives northern caucus that visited him in London on Friday, according to Punch. The former governor, who has been in the United Kingdom for the last three months since undergoing knee surgery, told the gathering, “Because of God and people like you, I am well. It is just the physio (physiotherapy) that is gruesome.” Since his departure, Tinubu’s London home has become a Mecca of sorts as he has been visited by President Muhammadu Buhari, the Speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila; Governors Abdullahi Ganduje (Kano), Dapo Abi...

Protest Rocks Edo After Gov Obaseki’s COVID-19 Vaccination Rule

27Sep

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Covid-19, News, Nigeria

Protest Rocks Edo After Gov Obaseki’s COVID-19 Vaccination Rule

Members of civil society organisations and students on Monday staged a massive protest against the compulsory COVID-19 vaccination policy put in place by the Governor Godwin Obaseki-led administration. Armed with placards bearing various inscriptions, the protesters who grounded vehicular and human movements in major points in the metropolis, urged the government to share COVID-19 palliatives, and not vaccines. Some of the placards bore inscriptions like; “We need security in Edo, not vaccine; We will resist any form of executive rascality; Hunger is killing us, not COVID-19; My body is my right.” They also threatened to completely shut down government houses, government agencies/parastatals, corporate organisations enforcing ‘no vaccine, no entry’ policies, stressing that the pro...

Striking Resident Doctors Resolute, Issues Fresh Ultimatum

26Sep

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

News, Nigeria

Striking Resident Doctors Resolute, Issues Fresh Ultimatum

The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors, on Saturday, issued a 72-hour ultimatum to the Federal Government to pay its members being owed Medical Residency Training Fund and salary arrears. The association also demanded that the government withdraw the lawsuit filed against doctors before the National Industrial Court in the interest of peace. The NARD made these demands in a communiqué issued at the end of its 41st Annual General Meeting held in Bauchi State on Saturday. In the communiqué, jointly signed by NARD’s President, Dr Okhuaihesuyi Uyilawa, and Secretary-General, Jerry Isogun, the resident doctors decried the Federal Government’s continued failure to accede to their demands. In the communiqué, they restated their resolve to continue with the indefinite strike, wh...

353 Nigerian Doctors Employed By UK in Three Months Amid Ongoing Strike In Nigeria

22Sep

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Labour, News, Nigeria, Uncategorized

353 Nigerian Doctors Employed By UK in Three Months Amid Ongoing Strike In Nigeria

About 353 Nigerian doctors have migrated to the United Kingdom to work in the last 100 days. According to Punch, checks on the website of the General Medical Council – the body which licenses and maintains the official register of medical practitioners in the UK – showed that the GMC licensed at least 353 Nigerian-trained doctors between June 10, 2021 and September 20, 2021. The statistics also showed that between July 24, 2020 and September 21, 2021, about 862 Nigeria trained doctors were licensed in the UK despite the COVID-19 pandemic. Overall, 8, 737 doctors who obtained their degrees in Nigeria currently practise in the UK. Speaking on Tuesday, the Vice-President of the National Association of Resident Doctors, Julian Ojebo, said the rate of migration might double in the comi...

EFCC Chairman Collapses While Delivering Speech

16Sep

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

News, Nigeria, Uncategorized

EFCC Chairman Collapses While Delivering Speech

Abdulrasheed Bawa, Chairman of antigraft agency, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has collapsed at the third National Identity Day celebration at the Banquet Hall, Aso Rock Villa. Bawa was delivering a goodwill message when he suddenly stopped, staggered back to his seat, and laid down, Tribune reports. The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, and other dignitaries held him and guided out of the hall after a while. Bawa was nominated as the substantive Chairman of the EFCC on February 16, 2021, and on February 24, 2021, he was confirmed by the National Assembly as the Executive Chairman. He officially took over from the Mr Ibrahim Magu, the former acting Chairman of the Commission. Source: SaharaReporters

Strike: NARD Asks Buhari to Lead Negotiations, Falana Heads Legal Team

14Sep

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Labour, News, Nigeria

Strike: NARD Asks Buhari to Lead Negotiations, Falana Heads Legal Team

Members of the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors, NARD, who have been on strike since August 2, 2021, have asked President Muhammadu Buhari, to invite them to partake in subsequent meetings with the Nigerian Medical Association. This was as the association added that human rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), would be leading the NARD legal team to the National Industrial Court on Wednesday. The association’s Vice President, Adejo Arome, disclosed this in an interview with The PUNCH on Monday. It was reported that the NMA, barely 48 hours after meeting with the President, met with the leadership of NARD and called on the association to call off its ongoing strike. The leaders of NARD were said to have remained adamant, maintaining that they would not call off the strike...