Coordinating Minister for Health and Social Services, Prof. Muhammad Ali Pate has identified poor funding, brain drain, obsolete equipment as well as lack of facilities as the major problems of Nigeria’s health sector. The minister made the assertion in an address he delivered Thursday at the 13th Biennial Delegates’ Meeting and Scientific Conference of the Medical and Dental Consultants Association …

Former Rivers State Governor, Engr. Nyesom Wike, has told the Senate ministerial screening committee on Monday that President Bola Tinubu would not regret nominating him to serve in his cabinet. Wike is the only leader of the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party in the ministerial list of the All Progressives Congress-led administration sent by the President to the Senate last …

Former Edo State State Governor, Senator Adams Oshiomhole on Sunday urged President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to appoint the best hands as ministers. The former governor, who said he was yet to see the list, however, said President Tinubu must not reward patronage with incompetence. He told Channels Television‘s Politics on Sunday that those to be appointed must be competent. He said: …

The Federal Government has withdrawn the Mobile Police Force personnel attached to several Very Important Persons, including ex-governors, former ministers and lawmakers. The order, which was contained in a police wireless message from Mopol 45 Force Headquarters, Abuja, affected Daura Buhari, brother to former President Muhammadu Buhari as well as former First Lady, Aisha Buhari’s sibling and former Secretary to …

Medical services were paralysed in government hospitals across the country on Wednesday as the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) began its five-day warning strike. It various states, hospitals offered only skeletal services to cushion the effect of the strike. This was even as hospital officials say the medical and dental consultants, nurses, and other health workers who are not …

The World Bank has approved the extension of the Federal Government COVID-19 Action Recovery and Economic Stimulus tagged: “NG-CARES” Programme from June 2023 to June 2024. At a Ministerial Town Hall meeting on the NG-CARES programme for four states in Benin, Edo State capital, on Wednesday, the Minister of State for Budget and National Planning, Prince Clem Agba said that …

The Minister of Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika assured on Sunday night that the runway of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja would be opened around 10 pm local time after a Max Air plane had an emergency landing there earlier in the day. “Following the temporary closure of Abuja Airport due to an emergency landing by Max Air, I am …

The Federal Government said the Nigeria COVID-19 Action Recovery and Economic Stimulus (NG CARES) Programme had impacted over two million poor and vulnerable beneficiaries in the 36 States and the FCT. The Minister of State, Budget and National Planning, Prince Clem Agba disclosed this at a news briefing in Abuja on Tuesday. He said the impact was part of efforts …

The Minister of Science, Technology, and Innovation (STI), Dr Adeleke Mamora, has lamented that Air conditioners (ACs) utilised in the country had less energy efficiency ratio (EER). Mamora said this at the National Stakeholders’ Consultative Workshop on Energy Efficient and Climate-Friendly Cooling in Nigeria on Thursday in Abuja. The one-day workshop was organised by the Energy Commission of Nigeria (ECN). …