Health Workers Dare el-Rufai, Down Tools

    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…

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      Why Nigeria Should Diversify her Economy – Hafed Al Ghwel

      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…

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        COVID-19: Africa’s leaders forced to confront healthcare systems they neglected for years – By Jonathan Ogwuche

        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…

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          Scorecard on South-South Governors – By Jubal Kanayo

          …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…

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            Breaking News: Gov. Ugwuanyi swears in new Health Commissioner

            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…

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              Enugu LG Polls: PDP wins all chairmanship, councillorship positions

              As party thanks electorate, congratulates its candidates Following successful conduct of the Local Government elections in Enugu State, on Saturday, the State Independent Electoral Commission (ENSIEC), has declared candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) winners of Chairmanship and Councillorship seats contested in all the 17 Local Government Areas and 260 electoral wards in the…

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