FG Sets Aside N28bn To Fund Primary Health Care Intervention In 2018

 

The federal government has initiated a N28 billion health fund that will target the revitalisation of at least one primary health Centre in each of the 774 local government areas. Isaac-Adewole

 The Minister of Health, IsaacAdewole, on Monday inaugurated the special intervention which he said would be formally rolled out in 2018. According to the minister, part of the interventions would include Tertiary“Health Institution Project alongside the revitalisation of 774 primary healthcare centres located in each local government area in the country. The federal government in January this

We Won’t Roll With Atiku In The Mud – Presidency

 

 President Muhammadu Buhari is not moved by the defection from the All Progressives Congress, APC, of former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, and will not take his bait to pre-empt the 2019 presidential campaign, high-level Presidency sources have affirmed. Atiku-Buhari National Chairman of the APC, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, has, however, described Atiku’s defection as an act of frustration for a man determined to become president at the last opportuned time in his old age, saying the party had for over a year, known of his move to jump ship. Atiku’s defection and challenge to Buhari were, however, dismissed as inconsequential by Mrs. Lauretta Onochie, the President’s

N30m Bribe: Court Admits INEC Official’s Statements As Exhibit

 

A Federal High Court, sitting in Lagos, yesterday admitted the three statements made by an official of the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC, hristian NwoCsu, to the Economic

 and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC, while undergoing interrogation for allegedly receiving N30 million bribe as exhibits. The admittance of the statements was followed by the dismissal of the claims by Nwosu that the three statements he made to the commission on December 28, 2016 and on March 15 and 22, 2017 were offered involuntarily. Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, Chairman of the

Nigeria’s Balance Sheet Remains Exposed To Further Shocks – Moody’s

Barely one month after one of the global rating agencies, Moody’s Investors Service, downgraded Nigeria’s sovereign debt rating, the agency has said the country’s balance sheet remains exposed to further shocks.
Moody’s had on November 8 downgraded Nigeria’s long-term issuer and senior unsecured debt rating to ‘B2’ from ‘B1’. The Federal Government, however, rejected the rating.
As a follow-up to the earlier rating, Moody’s on Monday released its annual credit analysis report, stating that Nigeria’s ‘B2 stable’ credit profile was constrained by the continued exposure of the sovereign balance sheet to shocks, weak institutions and elevated deficits.

Imo State Governor Rochas Okorocha Swears In Sister As Happiness Commissioner

Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State has sworn in 28 new commissioners and 27 Transition Committee Chairmen for the 27 local government councils in the state.
He charged them to prove their worth in the service of the state and her people. One of the commissioners sworn in by the governor is his biological sister, Mrs. Ogechi Ololo (nee Okorocha). She is now the state’s Commissioner for Happiness and Couples’ Fulfillment.