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Many of the developments recorded in recent years have been pursued under the Nigeria Health Sector Renewal Investment Initiative, introduced in 2023. The framework was designed to improve coordination across financing, service delivery, workforce development, health security, and the healthcare value chain. Its organising principle is simple: one conversation, one plan, one budget, and one report. Twenty-seven years after the return to democratic governance, Nigeria’s health sector remains one of the clearest measures of the country’s broader development journey. It is where public policy meets everyday life: in the primary healthcare centre that opens on time, the maternity ward that…
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has alerted healthcare providers, importers, distributors and caregivers to the recall of approximately 90,000 bottles of Children’s Ibuprofen Oral Suspension in the US due to contamination concerns. In a public alert issued on Saturday, the agency said it received notification that the United States Food and Drug Administration had announced the recall following reports of foreign material in the product. According to NAFDAC, the recall was initiated by Strides Pharma Inc. after consumers complained of a “gel-like mass” and “black particles” in the oral suspension. Children’s Ibuprofen Oral Suspension,…
Governor of Bayelsa State, Senator Douye Diri, has urged the people of the state to renew efforts to revive the positive aspects of their traditions and culture in order to prevent them from going into extinction. Diri, represented by the Deputy Governor, Pastor Peter Pereotubo Akpe, made the call on Saturday at the grand finale of the Ekpetiama Okolede New Yam Festival in Gbarantoru, Yenagoa Local Government Area of the state. He expressed concern over the fast-declining Ijaw language and traditional farming, which form an integral part of the Izon cultural heritage, due to a preference for foreign ways of…
The Abia State chapter of the Labour Party says June 12 remains a historic symbol of the collective struggle for freedom, justice, popular participation, and the right of the people to determine their own future through democratic processes. In a statement issued on Saturday and signed by the state party chairman, Peter Azubuike, the party said that, as the people of Abia State continue to enjoy the dividends of democracy through the leadership of Governor Alex Otti, it is important to remind citizens that democracy can only flourish when citizens actively participate in the electoral process. The party said it…
The Niger State Private Health Facilities Agency has shut down 15 private health facilities and arrested a man allegedly posing as a medical doctor during an enforcement operation in Suleja Local Government Area of the state. Executive Chairman of NiSPHFA, Dr Abdullahi Suleiman, disclosed this during an inspection in Suleja on Saturday after the agency’s task force carried out inspections of selected private health facilities in the area. He said the operation followed intelligence reports and routine regulatory inspections aimed at sanitising the healthcare sector and protecting residents from unsafe medical practices. Suleiman said the task force sealed Ellamara Specialist…
FIFA has officially named Côte d’Ivoire as the youngest squad in the ongoing 2026 World Cup. FIFA spotlighted the squad on its official World Cup X handle on Sunday. “Introducing Côte d’Ivoire… Youngest squad at the FIFA World Cup 2026” with “Average age: 25.8,” it wrote. The announcement came as the Elephants prepared for their first match in the expanded 48-team tournament co-hosted by Canada, Mexico and the United States. They face Ecuador on Monday. After the golden era led by legends such as Didier Drogba and Yaya Touré, coach Emerse Faé has built a dynamic, emerging side packed with…
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For years, Rabe Abubakar, a Nigerian Army major-general, spoke from podiums and press briefings about jihadists, bandits and other terrorists wreaking havoc across the country. He amplified military operational gains, explained the setbacks, disputed allegations and reassured nervous civilians that the war was being won by the military. In death, the former military spokesperson found himself once more in the middle of the insecurity that had defined the last days of his military career. To many Nigerians, he was one of the most familiar voices of the country’s security establishment during the peak years of the Boko Haram insurgency. He…
Three months. A trilogy. A triple publication. And with SSOAR’s confirmation arriving on Friday morning, our overall global archival footprint expands to seven critical institutional repositories when we include the foundational papers of The Insecurity Triad: SSRN, Harvard Dataverse, Zenodo, SocArXiv, SSOAR, ResearchGate, and Academia.edu. The symmetry, it appears, was not done with me yet. Last week on The Sunday Stew, we unveiled the Decoupling Sovereignty Index (DSI), a quantitative metric I developed as an extension of the Trinity of State Decay. It is meant to be a mathematical instrument for measuring the degree of separation between a state’s juridical…
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has filed a lawsuit against the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited over what it described as the company’s failure to account for approximately ₦5.9 billion allegedly spent on the incorporation, transition and rebranding of the NNPC into NNPCL. SERAP said the NNPC reportedly paid ₦2.9 billion for incorporation expenses from petroleum product proceeds, while the National Petroleum Investment Management Services also charged ₦2.9 billion to crude oil revenue for the same purpose, bringing the total to ₦5.9 billion. The organisation is seeking “an order of mandamus to direct and compel the NNPCL to account…
