The Federal Government says state governments are responsible for seven out of twelve demands that caused the strike by the National Association of Resident Doctors. The Minister of Health, Doctor Osagie Ehanire, told newsmen in Abuja that the Federal Government cannot force the states to do anything on those demands. The Minister said NARD was taking advantage…
Beginning from Monday next week, traffic will be diverted around the Airport Road junction of the Apapa-Oshodi Expressway. The move is to make way for the repair of the Airport Road Flyover, which was damaged by fire in January this year. The Lagos State Commissioner for Transportation, Frederic Oladeinde, confirmed in a statement that the repair of…
The World Health Organisation has donated twenty-six ventilators to Nigeria to boost the response to third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. The WHO also delivered three thousand, five hundred and sixty fingertip oxygen pulse oximeters to the federal government. WHO Country Representative, Doctor Walter Kazadi, made the presentation to the Minister of Health, Doctor Osagie Ehanire, in…
At least thirty-five members of the National Youth Service Corps have tested positive for coronavirus at the NYSC camp in Sagamu, Ogun State. The State Commissioner for Health, Doctor Tomi Coker, disclosed this in Abeokuta while briefing newsmen on the third wave of Covid-19 in the state. Coker said that some of the infected corps members have…
Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has charged the fifty-seven newly inaugurated local government chairmen in Lagos State to execute programmes and projects that will help promote development and reduce poverty among people in the grassroots. Governor Sanwo-Olu also reminded the council chairmen that the manifesto of the APC, which they represent, gives top consideration for development and the welfare…
Members of the Board of Trustees of the main opposition People’s Democratic Party have ended their meeting in Abuja. The meeting was held a day after one of them, Senator Joy Emordi, dumped the PDP for the ruling All Progressives Congress. Chairman of the PDP’s BOT, Senator Walid Jubrin, and the National Chairman of the party, Uche…