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President Muhammadu Buhari will flag-off the Primary Healthcare Centres (PHCs) revitalisation programme aimed at achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC), the Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole has said. Adewole announced this in a statement he issued to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Monday. He said that the flag-off would take place by 9 a.m. at the Kuchigoro, Gwarinpa PHC along the Airport Road, Abuja, on January 10. The initiative, he said, would address the gross inequalities in health access and outcomes, especially among women and children. “It is a pro-poor initiative and will have tremendous direct benefits on household economics. “A cardinal philosophy of the current administration was to ensure the implementation of UHC through the availability of quality healthcare services in an equitable manner without any financial barriers at the point of accessing health care,’’ Adewole said. The minister said that it was against this backdr
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), has said that it will reduce petroleum products importation by boosting the capacity utilisation of local refineries to 60 per cent by the end of 2017. The NNPC Group Managing Director, Dr Maikanti Baru, made this known in a statement by the Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division, Ndu Ughamadu, in Abuja on Sunday. Baru, who received the Management of Media Trust Limited, publishers of Daily Trust Newspapers, led by its Chairman, Malam Kabiru Yusuf, said that NNPC was keen on ending product importation in a few years. “We are putting together various programmes to ensure that we achieve at least 60 per cent local refining by the end of this year. “We are putting together various programmes to ensure that we achieve at least 60 per cent local refining by the end of this year. “It is the procedure or methodology that we are changing a little bit. “We are focusing on the process licensors to come and audit
By Chinedu Adonu ENUGU- INDIGENOUS People of Biafra (IPOB) condemned British Government for seeking the death of leader of IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu and that she was an accessory to the genocide on Biafrans. IPOB also said that it has classified classified information which incontrovertibly placed the British Government as an accessory to genocide on Biafrans. This came as it accused the British Government and President Muhammed Buhari of plan to administer a non-traceable poison on the leader of IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu to kill him. IPOB confirmed that the British Government is working in tandem with the Nigerian government to stealthily administer a non-traceable poison on the leader of IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu. Acording the press statement signed by IPOB spokesmen Barr. Emma Powrful and Dr. Cliford Chukwuemeka Iroanya, released to journalist in Enugu disclosed that Buhari and British Govornment want to kill Nnamdi Kanu to stop the leaking of heinous crime committed by the
By Dapo Akinrefon SERVING Overseer, The Latter Rain Assembly, Pastor Tunde Bakare has thrown his weight behind the agitation for restructuring of the country, saying it will correct the fundamental flaws in the polity. President Buhari and Pastor Tunde Bakare at State House Abuja He, however, faulted the President Muhammadu Buhari led administration for refusing to heed the call for restructuring. Bakare said this, Sunday, during a state of the nation address in Lagos. Noting that restructuring will correct the fundamental flaw in the nation’s federal system, he said: “The hues and cries for restructuring in our nation appear not to have been well received by this present government. The inquisitive may ask: Why must we restructure? We must restructure to correct the flaws in our federal system. A federated state is defined as a territorial and constitutional community forming part of a federal union. “In a true federal system, previously sovereign states agree to confer their