The Federal Ministry of Health (FMoH) on Wednesday in Abuja opened a two-day sensitisation for editors and general managers on the country’s maiden Media Engagement Strategy for Health Promotion (MES4HP) 2021-2025. The Director, Family Health Department of the ministry, Dr Salma Anas-Kolo, while declaring the event open, said “Health Promotion (HP) is the process of enabling people to increase control over and improve their health.” She said the National Health Act (NHA2014), the National Health Policy (NHP 2016) and the Second National Strategic Health Development Plan II (NSHDP II 2018-2022), are in concurrence that health promotion can reduce the country’s disease burden. Represented by Mrs…
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
The Portuguese government has officially nominated UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres as a candidate for a second term in office. UN spokesman, Mr Stephane Dujarric, disclosed this at his daily news briefing in New York on Wednesday. He said the nomination came in a letter addressed to the Presidents of the General Assembly and the Security Council. Guterres, 71, a former Prime Minister of Portugal, became the ninth Secretary-General following his election by the UN General Assembly on Oct. 13, 2016. On January 11, Dujarric confirmed that the UN chief, whose current term expires on Dec. 31, would be seeking a…
Two Policemen were on Thursday shot dead in separate incidents by yet to be identified gunmen in Anambra The shootings occurred just a day after the new Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr Monday Kuryas, warned criminal elements to repent or relocate from the state. CSP Haruna Mohammed, the Police Public Relations Officer of the Command in Anambra, who confirmed the incidents, said the police patrol teams were attacked in Mkpologwu and Omogho areas of the state. Mohammed, who did not disclose the number of personnel involved, said their riffles were carted away by the assailants. He said that…
Mr Samuel Ani, another Community leader in the crisis ridden Oruku Community in Nkanu local government of Enugu, was on Wednesday, shot dead in the area by unidentified gunmen. The Police Command in the state confirmed the incident in a statement signed by its spokesperson, Mr Daniel Ndukwe in Enugu on Wednesday. Until his death, Ani was the Vice Chairman, Oruku Caretaker Committee. The incident occurred barely two months after the traditional ruler of the community; Igwe Emmanuel Mbah was shot and killed by alleged hoodlums while addressing his subjects on Dec. 26, 2020. NAN reports that the incident culminated…
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, has recorded 11 deaths and 655 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 153,842. The NCDC disclosed this on its official Twitter handle on Wednesday. The centre also reported 11 COVID-19-related deaths, bringing the total fatality in the country to 1,885. Till date, the NCDC said 130,818 patients were discharged after being treated. The NCDC stated that the new infections were registered across 20 states and the Federal Capital Territory. According to the centre, Lagos topped the list with 240 infections, followed by Ogun…
Activities on the Nigerian stock market sustained the upward trend on Wednesday with a gain of 0.14 per cent on bargain hunting in Oando and 21 others. Specifically, the All-Share Index improved further by 56.44 points or 0.14 per cent to close at 40,221.30 against 40,164.86 posted on Tuesday. Accordingly, the month-to-date and year-to-date losses moderated to 5.2 per cent and 0.10 per cent, respectively. In the same vein, the market capitalisation grew by N29 billion to close at N21.043 trillion from N21.014 trillion recorded on Tuesday. The uptrend was also driven by price appreciation in medium and large capitalised…
The Lagos State Government has announced that there would be total closure of the third mainland bridge from midnight Friday to midnight Saturday. The Commissioner for Transportation, Dr Frederic Oladeinde who made this known in a statement issued in Lagos on Wednesday, said the bridge would be closed for 24 hours. Oladeinde said the closure would enable contractors move the equipment used during the rehabilitation process of the bridge completely to allow both the Oworonshoki and Adeniji bound lanes open fully to traffic. He said the closure was necessary, haven completed the replacement of the 12 expansion joints and to demobilise the…
The Nasarawa State government has promised continued partnership with the National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI) to advance agriculture and engineering in Nigeria. Governor Abdullahi Sule made the pledge during a courtesy visit to the agency on Wednesday in Abuja. Sule said that his administration would fully support the agency through provision of land and other logistics to enable it deliver on its mandate. He noted that the partnership with NASENI would yield positive outcomes by improving the science and technology sectors of the state at both secondary and tertiary education levels. He urged the agency to continue…
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is to produce a cadre of 100,000 new health workers competent to respond to current and future health needs of the populations in some targeted Nigeria states. The activity, which will be over the next five years will be under USAID’s “Health Workforce Management’’, a new USAID funded activity to improve the quality of health worker training in Nigeria. A statement by the U.S. Mission on Wednesday said that the project was inaugurated on Tuesday by the USAID Health Office Director, Paul McDermott and key government health sector officials. “The five-year, $19 million Health…
The Police Command in Abia has killed four suspects and arrested eight others over the attack on the Abayi Police Station in the early hours of Tuesday in Abia. The Force Public Relations Officer (FPRO), Mr Frank Mba, disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja. He said the command has also recovered arms and ammunition from the hoodlums, suspected to have carried out the unprovoked attack on the Police Station. Mba said the suspected attackers, numbering about 200, armed with AK47 rifles and matchetes, invaded the station and set part of it ablaze with the aid of petrol…