The Visitation Panel set up by Governor Emeka Ihedioha to investigate state of affairs of the Imo State University Teaching Hospital, IMSUTH, Orlu, has commenced official assignment. Addressing the Management and Staff of the hospital, Chairman of the Panel, Prof Frank Akpuka said aims of the setting up the team are investigate state of affairs of infrastructures; including collapsed or collapsing buildings, to investigate awards of contracts in the hospital and to ascertain whether they were executed and to identify the strength and problems being faced by the Hospital; and…
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Ebola, now preventable, treatable -WHO
The World Health Organization (WHO) has prequalified an Ebola vaccine for the first time, a critical step that will help speed up its licensing, access, and roll-out in countries most at risk of Ebola outbreaks. This is the fastest vaccine prequalification process ever conducted by WHO. Prequalification means that the vaccine meets WHO standards for quality, safety, and efficacy. United Nations agencies and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, can procure the vaccine for at-risk countries based on this WHO recommendation. “This is a historic step towards ensuring the people who most…
Read MoreNgor Okpala TC boss warns health workers, don’t pocket revenue
Hon Charles Abara, chairman of the Interim Management Committee, Ngor Okpala Local Government Area, has warned health workers manning primary health centres in the council against pocketing revenue accruing to government from the facilities, saying government is no longer prepared to fold its arms and watch its legitimate accruals diverted to private pockets. The chairman, who, spoke at the local government headquarters, Umuneke during a meeting with health workers in the council, added that the council management having decided to embark on rehabilitation and upgrade of health centres across the…
Read MoreGangsters, impostors invade Ogun NUJ
The news of the take over and composition of a Caretaker Committee for the Federated Chapel of Nigeria Union of Journalists, Ogun State Council by a small fraction of its membership is laughable and barbaric with a resemblance of a soap opera by the dramatists or comedians. This was contained in a statement released today in Abeokuta, Ogun state by the Comrade Adeniyi Adeloye led Executive of the Federated Chapel, Nigeria Union of Journalists, Ogun State Council. The release described the purported take over as fallacious on the grounds that…
Read MoreYuletide: Ihedioha seeks more FRSC assistance …Approves More Licensing Centers
Imo State Governor, Emeka Ihedioha CON, has advocated for more presence of men of the Federal Road Safety Corps in the state, especially at strategic locations, in this yuletide. The governor also assured that his administration would continue to support the activities of Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in the state. He stated this while receiving the Corps Marshal of the FRSC, Dr. Boboye Oyeyemi and his team, who paid him a courtesy visit in his Office at the Government House in Owerri on Thursday. Governor Ihedioha noted that Imo…
Read MoreImo NURTW crisis: Group wants Ihedioha to continue with appointments
A group drawn mainly from the Control Post unit of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, Imo State, has urged Governor Emeka Ihedioha to allow the Mbakwem-led state executives of the union to continue in office. The group which made the call Monday at the end of a meeting in Owerri, flayed those insisting on elections saying that the same people calling for elections became officers of the union in the past without going through any electoral process. Speaking on why Mbakwem popularly known as Bus-stop should continue…
Read MoreImo Guber: Appeal Court may refer to election petition tribunal’s verdict
The Imo state election petition tribunal panel that superintended over the governorship suit of the state critically dealt with evidences and petitions raised by the trio of Ararume, Hope Uzodinma and Uche Nwosu respectively as regards the declaration of Hon Emeka Ihedioha ( CON) as the winner of the Imo governorship election held in the state early this year. In the separate ruling of the judges which lasted for hours, the judges of the EPT extensively without bias carefully examined the petitions / evidence (s) before them and struck out…
Read MoreSowore: SERAP begs Archbishop of Canterbury, tell Buhari to obey court orders,
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has written an open letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Most Revd Justin Welby, urging him to use his good office and relationship with President Muhammadu Buhari to convince him to obey court orders and respect the rule of law. Buhari, who has visited London many times in the last four years, has been known to always visit the archbishop anytime he visits the United Kingdom. On Sunday, the President also paid a visit to the cleric. In light of the visits, SERAP asked…
Read MoreUgwuanyi grants free medical charges to HIV patients
In his characteristic all -inclusive style of governance,Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State Wednesday said his administration has removed all financial barriers hindering people living with HIV in the state from accessing medical treatment. Consequently, the governor declared that “henceforth, all card fees, consultation fees and charges for basic laboratory investigations stand removed for people living with HIV to guarantee them financial access to HIV prevention and treatment services in Enugu State”. Speaking during the launch of Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) Surge Response in the state, Gov. Ugwuanyi disclosed that his…
Read MoreKidnapped Imo Judge: Monarchs appeal to FG for help …Demand release of Nwosu -Iheme
The continuous detention of Hon. Justice Chioma Nwosu Iheme at the kidnappers den 7 days after she was whisked away along Agbo road in Benin City by some yet to be identified kidnappers has attracted the attention of Traditional Rulers from Imo state, where the embattled Appeal Court Judge hails from. Addressing journalists in Owerri on the issue, the chairman Imo State Council of Traditional Rulers, HRM Eze Sam Agunwa Ohiri, accompanied by the “Eshi of Nkwerre” HRH Eze Chijioke J. Okwara, said it’s disheartening that 7 days after a…
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