The Oyo State Health Insurance Agency (OYSHIA) says it has enrolled over 60% of targeted enrollees into the Basic Health Care Provision Fund (BHCPF) scheme. This was revealed by the Executive Secretary of Oyo State Health Insurance Agency (OYSHIA), Dr. Sola Akande, on Tuesday, in Ibadan. In addition, Dr. Akande said the Agency has reviewed upwards the number of enrollees for BHCPF, to accommodate more residents of the State. According to him, “the Basic Health Care Provision Fund (BHCPF) is financed through 1% of Federal Government consolidated revenue given to States that have fulfilled certain laid down guidelines.” Akande said, the…
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Immediate past Chairman House of Representatives Committee on Army, Hon. Abdulrazak Namdas has hailed the selection of the new Service Chiefs by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. The Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation Monday evening announced the appointment of new Service Chiefs. The statement signed by Willie Bassey, Director, Information Office of Secretary to the Government of the Federation announced Mallam Nuhu Ribadu as the new National Security Adviser. This is while Maj. Gen. C.G Musa is the new Chief of Defence Staff, Maj. Gen T. A Lagbaja is Chief of Army Staff, Rear Admiral E.…
The Conference on Addressing Illicit Financial Flows and Asset Recovery in the Extractive Industries has tasked the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) on the bribery scandal by Glencore in Nigeria and five other African countries. + The Conference, in a communique released on Tuesday at the end of its two-day session in Diamniadio, Dakar, Senegal, asked EITI to publicly call out Glencore for its failure to adhere to the group’s principles and values over its bribery scandal in Nigeria, Cameroon, South Sudan, Cote d’Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Conference convened by the Secretariat of the…
Uche Nwosu, former Chief of Staff in Imo state, has commended President Bola Tinubu, for reshuffling the Service Chiefs. This is contained in a statement signed by him in Abuja following the announcement of their replacement. The statement says the decision of the President shows that he understood the peculiar challenges facing the country. “Since assuming office, President Tinubu has demonstrated by the Bills he signed into law, and by the appointments and pronouncements he made that his administration is one where the leader understands the peculiar challenges facing the country” Nwosu stresses It adds that Mr President in his…
The former Governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom, is currently in the Makurdi custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, following an invitation, The PUNCH has learnt. Ortom arrived at the Makurdi zonal office of the anti-graft agency, located at Alor Gordon Street, at 10 a.m. on Tuesday. It was gathered that the former governor was invited to be questioned concerning an ongoing investigation into alleged financial misappropriation during his tenure as an official. “Former governor Ortom is currently at our Makurdi zonal office in Benue State. He arrived at about 10 a.m. this morning, and he’s still there…
The presidential candidate of the people’s democratic party in the February 25, 2023 presidential election Atiku Abubakar and his party have tendered more documents in aid of their petition before the presidential election petition court sitting in Abuja. The petitioners through their Counsel Chris Uche, SAN tendered 14 batches of certified true copies of the voter’s register of the federal capital territory. The documents were provided by the independent national electoral commission upon the issuance of subpoena on its chairman, professor Mahmood Yakubu. Counsel to INEC Abubakar Mahmud, SAN, that of president Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Wole Olanipekun, SAN and apc,…
Police on Tuesday arrested 20 people, including the headmaster of the school in which 42 people, mostly children, were killed in a massacre on Friday, they said. The detainees are suspected of collaborating with extremists, the police said. Uganda’s police blamed rebels of the Congolese militia Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), which is said to have links to the Central African offshoot of the Islamist terrorist militia Islamic State, for the bloodshed. On Friday, the suspected Islamists attacked and set fire to a school and its dormitories in the town of Mpdonwe near the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo…
Gov. Abba Kabir-Yusuf of Kano has approved the appointment of a 13-man management board of Kano Pillars Football Club. This is contained in a statement issued by the governor’s Chief Press Secretary, Alhaji Sanusi Bature, on Tuesday in Kano. According to Kabir-Yusuf, Alhaji Babangida Little is the chairman of the board, while Sani Ibrahim will serve as secretary. He said that the board members include Garba Umar, Naziru Abubakar, Bashir Chilla, Ali Nayara and Shuaibu Doguwa. Others are Rabiu Pele, Muhammed Danjuma, Sabo Chokalinka, Abba Haruna, Usman Kofar- Na’isa and Yakubu Pele. He said that the appointments were with immediate…
President Joe Biden said the threat of Russian President Vladimir Putin using tactical nuclear weapons is “real”, days after denouncing Russia’s deployment of such weapons in Belarus. On Saturday, Biden called Putin’s announcement that Russia had deployed its first tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus “absolutely irresponsible”. “When I was out here about two years ago saying I worried about the Colorado river drying up, everybody looked at me like I was crazy,” Biden told a group of donors in California on Monday. “They looked at me like when I said I worry about Putin using tactical nuclear weapons. It’s real,”…
An FCT High court on Tuesday fixed ruling in the enforcement of fundamental rights suit filed by the suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, to July 13. Justice Hamza Muazu fixed the date after listening to submisions made by parties in the matter. In his submission, Counsel to Emefiele Joseph Daudu, SAN, argued that contrary to the preliminary objection raised against the originating summon on notice by the respondents, the court has the jurisdiction to entertain the matter. According to him, the offences listed against the Emefiele are state offences that could be entertained by…