NMA opens endowment for Ebola

Nigerian Medical Association has opened an endowment fund as the country begins building up its preparedness for a probable re-emergence of Ebola virus disease. The fund comes despite World Health Organisation certifying Nigeria Ebola-free after the disease was contained. The fund is to pay for training and equipping healthworkers against Ebola, said NMA president Dr Kayode Obembe. He spoke at the association's...

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I won’t step down for anybody – Kwankwaso

    Rabiu Kwankwaso The Kano State governor, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso yesterday said he will not step down for anyone in the race for the presidential ticket of the All Progressives Congress. The governor is among APC’s four presidential aspirants, the others being retired General Muhammadu Buhari, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and Mr Sam Nda-Isaiah.Since Senator Bukola Saraki announced he was shelving his...

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Why WHO declares Nigeria Ebola-free

               Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu The World Health Organisation (WHO) yesterday declared Nigeria officially free of the Ebola virus disease after six weeks passed without recording any new case.The declaration by WHO representative, Rui Gama Vaz, in Abuja came 42 days after the last person in possible contact with the virus was taken off observation...

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US, investors to build $20bn power plant in Katsina

United States government officials and a consortium of companies have arrived in Katsina State for feasibility studies on a 1000 megawatts gas plant to be financed from the $20 billion Power-for-Africa grant from the US government. Six other African countries - Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia, Ghana and Liberia - are to benefit from the grant aimed at improving power supply on the continent.The officials are looking at...

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Health workers begin nationwide strike Today

  Health workers across the country will today begin an indefinite strike over alleged government’s refusal to accede to their demands. The aggrieved workers ousted their grievances to include intractable leadership crisis in the health sector; non-commencement of residency training programme for health professionals, non-implementation of new call duty allowance and non-payment of arrears of CONHESS 10 skipping, among others. National...

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Taraba 2015: Northern Patriotic Front Rally Support For Acting Governor

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Ahead of the 2015 governorship election in Taraba State, the Northern Patriotic Front (NPF) has called on the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to give priority to the acting governor, Alhaji Garba Umar, in the contest for the state’s governorship election. The...

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PDP Chieftain Commends aspirant for renovating party secretariat, donating chairs

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 The Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party of Ijumu Local Government area in Kogi State, Alhaji Isau has commended Comrade Tosin Adeyanju for renovating and donating chairs to its party secretariat at Iyara local government.  Alhaji...

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Police arrest pastor with human skull in Osun State

A 35 year old pastor with the Cherubim and Seraphim Church in Osun state, Clement Oyetunde was paraded by men of the Osun state police command yesterday October 9th after he was found with human skull and other charms at his church premises in the Adeowo area of Modakeke in Osun. According to reports, Clement said a friend brought the skull to his house and buried it in his compound but that the spirit of the skull kept calling for...

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