The Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), Prof. Mohammed Sambo, announced on Sunday that the company has developed a framework to extend health insurance to members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC). Speaking at a forum of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja, Sambo said that the gesture was to boost the Universal Health Coverage (UHC). He said that NHIS had been working with the management of the NYSC to implement the scheme. According to him, enrolment of NYSC members into NHIS is a presidential directive and we have been working in partnership with…
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC), says the commission received the highest consumer related complaints from the electricity and banking sectors in 2020. The Executive Vice Chairman of FCCPC, Mr Babatunde Irukera said in Abuja on Sunday, that telecommunication complaints were third on the chart followed by aviation. Irukera who said the commission was handling so many complaints, noted that the commission was considering expanding the capacity of its complaint’s resolution team. “Our complaints resolution team is still a very small team of people and they are dealing with thousands of complaints. “We are looking at expanding capacity…
The National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) has unveiled a handbook detailing all the drugs and services it provides, to make enrolees to have easier access to drugs and services. The Executive Secretary of the NHIS, Prof. Mohammed Sambo, made the disclosure when he featured at the flagship News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Forum in Abuja on Sunday. According to him, the handbook, which is easily accessible on the NHIS website, contains detailed information on all drugs and services rendered by the company. Sambo said: “one of the issues we have undertaken is to develop a booklet on all the services…
The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) is to collaborate with the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) on COVID-19 vaccine information dissemination and education. The Executive Vice Chairman of FCCPC, Mr Babatunde Irukera, disclosed this while speaking in Abuja on Sunday. He said the commission would also use its platform to address questions around the vaccine indecisions. “We are opening collaboration with NAFDAC to address the appropriate channels for COVID vaccination. “To advise the public about not accepting vaccinations that are not coming from the appropriate and proper government channels and have gone through…
The Minister of Water Resources, Mr Suleiman Adamu, has underscored the need for state governments to prioritise investment in the water sector, to achieve targets. Adamu gave the advice at investiture ceremony of Mrs Chinwe Igwegbe, the 6th National Chairman of the Nigerian Institution of Water Engineers (NIWE), on Saturday in Abuja. The event with the theme: “Reconciling bragging rights with human rights in the Nigerian water sector development” was organised by NIWE, an arm of the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE). According to the minister, who was the Distinguished Guest at the event which also featured a public lecture,…
The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) says it will commence enforcement of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) billing cap order to ensure effective consumer protection. Mr Babatunde Irukera, the Executive Vice Chairman of the commission said in Abuja on Sunday, that the move was a more strategic approach toward intervening in consumers’ complaints. The order issued by NERC states that “DisCos shall ensure that all customers on tariff Class A1 are properly identified and metered by April 30, 2020. R2 single phase customers now have energy cap of 78kwhr per month and a tariff of N24kwhr. The…
The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) says it will not hesitate to confiscate cigarettes sold in sticks at the expiration of the moratorium given in the Tobacco Control Law. The Executive Vice Chairman of the commission, Mr Babatunde Irukera said in Abuja on Sunday, that the commission had started little enforcement in preparation for the date. The tobacco law of 2019 contains many provisions including smoke free places, tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship, packaging and labelling, prevention of tobacco industry interference and product disclosure. The law prohibits the sale of tobacco products via the internet, single cigarettes and…
Maj.-Gen. Chukwuemeka Okonkwo, the Commander of the Special Task Force, Operation Safe Haven (OPSH), which is maintaining peace in Plateau and environs has warned troops to desist from molesting innocent civilians but to go after criminals. Okonkwo spoke at the inauguration of a special operation code named “Hakorin Damisa” on Saturday in Bassa. The Special operation, which would last for four days, aimed at reducing insecurity in some parts of Bassa and Riyom local government areas (LGAs) of Plateau. The commander, who charged the troops to be professional in their conduct, urged them to ensure that isolated killings, attacks and…
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Chief Geoffrey Onyeama, says the Republic of Benin is not aspiring to be the 37 State of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs made this disclaimer in a statement signed by its spokesperson, Mr Ferdinand Nwonye, on Saturday in Abuja. The ministry is reacting to misleading speculations. The Foreign Ministry explained that the misleading reports was quoted out of context following the meeting with Onyeama and his Beninese counterpart on February 18 in Abuja. “The attention of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has been drawn to misleading reports in the media…
Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, said in Lagos on Saturday that Nigeria might get COVID-19 vaccines in the next 10 days. “We are told that by the end of this month, which is about 10 days from now, we shall get the vaccines,’’ the minister said. “We do not produce the vaccines. They are manufactured abroad in about four or five countries,’’ he told newsmen at the end of an inspection tour of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) Idi-Araba, Ehanire explained that the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Russia and China that had succeeded in producing…