September 10, 2020

Shehu Sani, a former federal lawmaker, has reacted to the recent statement by the Minister of Health, directing federal hospitals to replace doctors with corps members.

The Health Minister, lamenting the strike action by resident doctors directed the CMDs and MDs of all federal tertiary hospitals to replace the doctors in their hospitals with consultants and doctors on the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC.

Ehanire said the strike commenced by the doctors at a time when the country was battling the COVID-19 pandemic was ill-timed.

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Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, a former minister of aviation has slammed Bola Tinubu, a national leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, for refusing to greet the Ooni of Ife.

The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, had arrived at the coronation of the Oniru of Iruland in Lagos State, on Sunday, September 6 and was walking to the high table when he stopped by to greet Tinubu.

In the video, Tinubu was seen sitting down while the monarch paid respect to him.

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The Police Command in Kaduna State has said that the entrance examination into the 8th Regular Course of Police Academy, Wudil, has been scheduled for Thursday, Sept. 17, across the country.

The command’s Public Relations Officer, ASP Mohammed Jalige disclosed this in a statement issued on Thursday in Kaduna, NAN reports.

Jalige said that candidates from Kaduna Central are expected to sit for the examination at the National Teachers Institute (NTI), along Kaduna-Zaria Expressway.

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”The Police Command in Kaduna State wishes to inform the general public, particularly Kaduna residents that,

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), has confirmed 176 new cases of coronavirus (COVID-19), bringing the nation’s total infections to 55,632.

NCDC announced the figure on its official twitter handle on Wednesday.

It said that 176 new confirmed cases and 3 deaths were recorded in the country on Sept. 9.

The health agency said that till date, 55,632 cases have been confirmed, 43,610, discharged and 1,070 deaths, recorded in 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

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FCT had the highest number of infections with 40 cases, while Lagos …

Niger State Government says it has uncovered over two thousand unqualified primary school teachers on its payroll across the 25 local government areas of the state.

The affected teachers, according to the government could neither read nor write in primary schools.

This was the report of the findings of a Staff Audit Committee constituted by the State Universal Basic Education Board, SUBEB, in June this year.

The committee set up by the state Chairman, Dr. Isa Adamu, was saddled with the responsibility to unravel and ascertain the exact number of personnel on its payroll.

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