By Hassan John Stakeholders including Civil Society Organisations CSOs) and health sector advocates have appealed to the Senate to urgently pass the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Health Insurance Bill currently before them. The stakeholders made the appeal when they paid a courtesy visit to the Chairman, Senate Committee on Health, Senator Ibrahim Oloriegbe,…

By Gom Mirian The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has cancelled the registrations of 817 candidates in the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). The board ordered the 817 affected candidates to register afresh. Professor Is-haq Oloyede, Registrar of JAMB, speaking on the issue on Monday in Abuja, says the registrations were invalidated over…

North-Central’s Kogi tops with 110,000 kids out of school By Kazeem Biriowo With 30,000 children, the South-Eastern State of Anambra recorded the least out of school kids between age 6-15 brackets. The Nigeria Multidimensional Poverty Index (NMPI) reveals this in its 2002 report. While Abia State recorded 50,000, Imo – also recorded 50,000, Enugu – 70,000…

  Abuja, Calabar, Benue, Lagos Now Refugee Friendly Cities  By Kazeem Biriowo  Minister of Humanitarian Affairs Sadya Umar Farouq has revealed that the federal government has impacted the lives of over 15million Nigerians and their families. Farouq stated this while presenting her ministry’s score card under the aegis of the Federal Ministry of Information’s “PMB…

    By Miriam Gom To mother of two Esther, diphtheria sounds like something about nutrition.  “Ah! I never heard of this disease before, but I think it is about child nutrition because it sounds like that,” she said with a wry smile that bothers on embarrassment. Esther’s ignorance is symptomatic of several mothers who…

By Gom Mirian About 65 per cent of Nigerian women  do not have formal financial accounts in any financial institution, a recent released report has said. Only about  35  per cent of women age 15 to 49 have accounts with banks, said the report by the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) carried out in 2021…

  Downgrades Global Prospects   By Louis Achi The International Monetary Fund, IMF, has upgraded its projection for Nigeria’s 2023 economic growth rate to 3.2 per cent.   This represents 0.2 percentage points uptick from the 3.0 per cent   earlier projected in its October 2022 World Economic Outlook, WEO.   The IMF however projected that…

Integrative Medicine Making Little Progress  By Louis Achi Zainab Ujudud Shariff Nigeria is blessed with over 10,000 species of medicinal plants yet she has not utilized even twenty per cent of this bounty despite having arable land where these plants grow across all the zones of the country. This position was expressed by the Pioneer…

…As wife fumes over delayed justice By Louis Achi Dr. Uyi Iluobe The Delta State Police Command has said the killers of the Chief Medical Director, Olivet Clinic, Oghara, Dr. Uyi Iluobe will be paraded once investigation is concluded. This is even as the grieving wife of the doctor, Dr. Blessing Iluobe has decried the…