President Muhammadu Buhari has assured Nigerians that the lockdown measures put in place by the Federal Government to check the spread of COVID-19 would not remain longer than necessary. A statement issued by the Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to the President, Garba Shehu, said President Buhari gave the assurance in his Sallah…
Health workers in Kaduna State dared Governor Nasir el-Rufai and downed tools for a 7-day warning strike. The industrial action, which took immediate effect, according to a communiqué issued to the media by the Kaduna State Healthcare Workers Unions and Associations, stemmed from issues yet to be resolved between them and the government. This was…
The coronavirus pandemic and oil market crash will together probably change the global energy industry for ever. Nigeria, Africa’s largest oil producer, should urgently and aggressively diversify its economy away from a dependence on petroleum exports. The future is bleak and the flurry of headlines about the pandemic continue to assert a new reality in…
Even as global health authorities warn of potential dangers and misinformation about an untested natural therapy, the leader of one African country is pushing a traditional tonic to try to treat coronavirus patients across the continent. The product has not been tested in line with international standards, the World Health Organization said this week. Its…
Africa’s ailing presidents and powerful elites have been known to jet out to seek treatment abroad, instead of investing in healthcare in their own countries. Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe died in a hospital in Singapore, and Cameroon’s Paul Biya regularly seeks treatment abroad. Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari was out of the country for several months in…
Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State has, in recent months, shown that governing is beyond rhetorics, blowing the commonwealth, making empty promises and jumping from one country to another to “look for investors”. Leadership SCORECARD looks at how. Coronavirus is here amongst us and it is something we have all had to deal with. It…
…the Nigerian South-South Governors Under Scrutiny While the focus could easily be on the Federal Government, with the dawning of another Democracy Day celebration, Leadership SCORECARD takes a critical look at the performance of the various governors in the Southernmost part of the nation. Jubal Kanayo writes that, since the nation is yet to disentangle…
A youth group from the Enugu East senatorial Zone; Nkanu Youth Assembly led by Comr.Edeani M. Edeani has rolled out relief items and palliative to be distributed to the needy and indigent ones amongst them. This relief items which includes over 100 bags of 10kg rice, over 150 cartons of Indomie and over 200 tubers…
Following the unfortunate death of the former Commissioner for Health, Enugu State, Prof. Anthony Ugochukwu, last week, Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, on Thursday, swore in Associate Prof. Emmanuel Ikechukwu Obi, as the new health commissioner. Prof. Obi, until his appointment was a Consultant Public Health Physician and Lecturer at University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Ituku-Ozalla and…
Enugu West General Assembly (EWGA) led by Hon. Humphrey Onyima, the Senior Special Assistant to the Governor of Enugu State, has congratulated Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, Hon. Pedro Nwankwo (Awgu LGA), Hon. Ezekiel Chukwu (Aninri LGA), Hon. Udemezue Frank (Oji River LGA), Hon. Ifeanyi Agu (Udi LGA), Hon Chukwudi Ani (Ezeagu LGA) and all other candidates…
