The Bauchi State Ministry of Health says it has adopted the Task Shifting and Task Sharing (TSTS) policy to encourage utilisation of health workers towards enhancing healthcare service delivery in the state. Dr Samaila Dahuwa, the state Commissioner for Health, stated this during the dissemination of the revised TSTS policy on Thursday in Bauchi. The TSTS involves the rational redistribution of tasks among health workforce from highly qualified health workers to health workers with lower qualifications for effective service delivery. TSTS is one of the strategies for accelerating the progress towards achieving health of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The policy focuses on…
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
International partners of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Wednesday, joined the Executive Chairman of the Commission, Abdulrasheed Bawa, to unveil the Commission’s Strategic Plan (2021-2025) which is targeted at improving its performance. The Plan which is designed in line with the National Anti-Corruption Strategy (NACS) 2017 – 202, has the following objectives: increasing public engagement in the fight against economic and financial crimes; improving systems and processes for the prevention of economic and financial crimes; improve intelligence driven investigation, prosecution and asset recovery; improve law enforcement coordination and collaboration with relevant stakeholders; and enhance institutional capacity and…
President, Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Rev. Samson Ayokunle, says in spite of its challenges, Nigeria will remain indivisible and wax stronger. In a message of hope issued on Thursday to Christians and Nigerians preparatory to the country’s 61st anniversary, Ayokunle also declared that “Nigeria shall experience Showers of Blessings.’’ He said his prophesy was backed by the Book of Ezekiel 34:25-30, where Ezekiel prophesied to a people in captivity of the Babylonians that there shall be showers of blessings. Book of Ezekiel 34:25-30 states: “I will make a covenant of peace with them and rid the land of savage beasts…
The Police Command in Niger has confirmed the killing of three people by gunmen who attacked the palace of the Emir of Kagara in Rafi local government area of the state. The Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr Monday Kuryas, confirmed the incident in Minna on Wednesday. Kuryas said the incident occurred at about 5.30pm on Tuesday and that over 100 attackers who came with dangerous weapons were able to gain entry into the Emir’s palace and the divisional police headquarters in the area. He said a policeman and two civilians were gunned down by the bandits during the…
What really separates man from beast is culture, the desire to learn about and understand the relationship between people and the surrounding world, the need to form communities, make art and play decent games. If a person is cultured, he should be seen to be interested in the world, tolerant of contrary viewpoints and open to new experiences and ways of looking at things. If on the other hand he is uncultured, he does none of those things. Quite justifiably, in this context, the Yoruba that predominantly occupy southern Nigeria, are accurate personification of whatever could be said to be…
By Tina George, Minna The Society for Family Health and Population Services International have trained healthcare providers on family planning services and depot-medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA) self-care. The training, implemented under the Delivering Innovation in Self-Care Project (DISC), trained participants drawn from both private and public health facilities in Suleja, Niger state. The participants were taught on DMPA self-care, counselling and documentation which aims to scale up quality self-care options in Sexual Reproductive Health, starting with DMPA-SC. According to the Deputy Team Leader, DISC Project, Mrs Roselyn Odeh, DISC is a five-year project funded by the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation and…
Gombe state governor, Inuwa Yahaya has called for more collaboration among security agencies in the state and North-East towards addressing security challenges in the region. Yahaya made the call on Wednesday in Gombe, when he declared open the third quarter security meeting of state Directors of the Department of State Service (DSS) in the North-East. The governor was represented by his deputy, Manassah Jatau. Yahaya said that such collaboration had resulted in the operational successes being recorded in the area as well as peaceful coexistence among the residents. He noted that security agencies were meant to complement one another and…
The Ministry of Water Resources has declared nine additional local government areas Open Defecation Free (ODF), having met the requirements slated in the 2017 ODF Protocol for hygiene promotion. The local government area (LGAs) are Malumfashi, Kusada, Mashi, Batagarawa, Baure in Katsina State and Hadejia, Ringim, Malam Madori and Kiri Kasama in Jigawa. This brings a total of 71 out of the 774 local government areas in the country that are open defecation-free. At the monthly meeting of the National Task Group on Sanitation, which held virtually on Wednesday, the Chairman, Mr Emmanuel Awe, commended the two states. Before attaining…
National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has distributed agricultural inputs to 1,331 farmers affected by flood in 2020 in Ondo State. The Director General of NEMA, Dr Ahmed Habib, stated this while distributing the Agricultural inputs to the victims on Wednesday in Akure. Some of the inputs distributed are; Water pumps, herbicides fertiliser and growth enhancers, among others. Ahmed, who was represented by the Director of Operations, Ekiti Office, Mr Olusegun Afolayan, said the gesture, which was approved by President Muhammadu Buhari, was to bring the farmers back to the mainstream. According to the DG, those who were mostly affected were…
President Muhammadu Buhari will on Thursday unveil ‘‘Discover Nigeria”, a pictorial book on Nigeria’s history, covering the period from Independence in 1960 to the present. Mr Femi Adesina, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, made this known in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja. The 392-page book, authored by Bayo Omoboriowo, the President’s official photographer, showcases the country’s rich traditional institutions, ingenuity of its people, the beauty of its landscape, the richness of its farmlands, stunning waterfalls and seas, among others. On the eve of the presentation, which coincides with Nigeria’s 61st Independence anniversary celebration, Omoboriowo…