By Garba M. Muhammad The Medical Director of Federal Medical Center Keffi, Dr. Yahaya Baba Adamu has commended members of the Center’s Joint Health Staff Union (JOHESU) for finally suspending its one week long warning strike which crippled activities in the hospital. In an exclusive interview with Health Monitor, theContinue Reading
Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum, has rewarded Dr. Isa Akinbode with N13.9m and a car for serving the state government for 22 years in the healthcare delivery sector. According to the governor, the 64-year-old medical doctor from Ogun State lived and served at the Monguno General Hospital for those years.Continue Reading
The Ambassadors-Designate have had to endure a tourtuous six months waiting after been cleared by the senate last year September. The 25 Ambassadors-Designate were presented their letters by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama; Deputy governor of Kano state, Nasir Gawuna and representative of Police Affairs Minister in Abuja.Continue Reading
By Jeremy Herb and Curt Merrill This report is provided by the ODNI. Questions should be directed to the NIO for Near East. We assess that Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman approved an operation in Istanbul, Turkey to capture or kill Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. There’s no walingContinue Reading
Nigeria has to act fast to develop a sustainable food system as it faces a population growth that is “handsomely” ahead of its economic growth figures, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo said Tuesday. Mr Osinbajo said the need to create a food system that works “has never been more urgent andContinue Reading
The Paramount Ruler of Iwoland, Oba Abdulrosheed Adewale Akanbi, has disclosed Iwoland has the best species of herdsmen in South West, Nigeria, assuring peaceful, symbiotic co-existence. He described the relative peace and mutual understanding between the Yoruba and Fulanis in his domain as enviable, saying Iwo is ready to hostContinue Reading
By Hassan Gimba Last month was really not a good one for Nigeria. It was a month that witnessed more than one mass abduction of secondary school students apart from other forms of kidnappings and killings by marauders. It was also a month in which on two occasions Boko HaramContinue Reading
Joined by Muslims, Jews, representatives of different Christian Churches and other Iraqi religious minorities in the Iraqi city of Ur, Pope Francis prays for reconciliation, peace and the strength to rebuild the ravaged nation. Pope Francis travelled south from Baghdad to the ancient city of Ur to hold an historicContinue Reading
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov’s dramatic declaration that his country “will pursue the policy of active containment of the US on all fronts” if American pressure on Russia doesn’t soon end inspired a unique 20-point plan for what this could look like in practice. Russia’s Anti-American Containment Policy RussiaContinue Reading